Hold Your App-pause - Twitter "Friends" the DVR - Don Seaman-TVB

There comes a time in every great society to take a moment take a breath and wait for those who have fallen behind to get a chance to catch up This generally allows for great societal changes to take root and become mainstream for technological innovations to gain critical mass and now to avoid social media TV spoilersWait whatIt39s the latest innovation in time travel actually Sending your entertainment into the future is one thing that39s really the essence of what DVRs do if you really think about it but up until now the Internet was mostly in realtime If you haven39t seen the latest episode of that heavily tweeted program you39re just going to miss out on all of the fan reaction until you catch up for fear of the inevitable spoilersThanks to a new company called Tomorrowish the DVR has become socialIt39s still in the early stages but essentially the system will bank tweets about a program and sync them with your program feed once you start watching amp8211 either through streaming video in a single screen or through certain settop boxes synced to a second screen The system will even clean up the junk tweets as they say no quotYay Gleequot tweets and just give you the relevant ones with later ones from other Tomorrowish users appended It is quite literally the pause that refreshesIt39s not realtime but at least you get to share the comments after the fact Today it39s Twitter and Facebook But for now that39s a pretty good startThis all just underscores the everincreasing relationship between television and social media But it also serves as a reminder that the television content and DVR technology is the primary component to this People are willing to part with the tweets in deference to not quotspoilingquot their favorite TV programSo this brings to mind some other things that might benefit from an addition of a social media pause technology TV sports certainly If for nothing else you39d be able to pause all of the tweets until you were done praying restocking or maybe celebratingBut now if they could possibly manage to apply that technology to real life timeshifting that early parking spot or pausing the 4AM traffic for using it during a 7AM commute then they39d really be onto somethingFor now we39ll just have to be happy with another example of someone who saw a barrier to someone39s social relationship with television and broke it downSo anytime anyone wonders if TV is a social medium just remember the Internet will wait for you to catch up on watching televisionDon Seaman joined the TVB in January 2012 as Manager of Marketing Communications where he is responsible for promoting and raising awareness of the TVB and of Local Broadcast Televisionamp8217s value propositions within the traditional and digital media industries Don can be reached at dontvborgRead all Don39s MediaBizBloggers commentaries at Local MattersCheck us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBloggerThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaBizBloggerscom management or associated bloggers MediaBizBloggers is an open thought leadership platform and readers may share their comments and opinions in response to all commentaries

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