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Dual screen setup @ my SuperBowl party: one for game, one for tweets. Great backchannel for ads. This is the future.
Partly inspired what Twitter did w/ the debates in summer 08 (dual screen, tweets vs. TV) I rigged up something similar for SuperBowl 2010.
My LCD on the left was hooked up to my MacBook and with TwitterFall was streaming tweets from the people I’m following (of which 97% where about the SuperBowl and from friends-of-everyone-in-the-room). [see pic] The dual screen gave us a running commentary of what our friends where saying about both the game and the ads. And just as you’d multitask between different IM windows at work, we’d shift glances from Twitter to Superbowl whenever there was downtime on either screen. Like Twitter itself, it’s hard to explain how interesting this was unless you were actually a part of it, but the combination of seeing our friends tweets and our own running commentary (from the folks on the couch) — AND it then spawning conversation around the coffee table — was kind of fascinating. About 1/2 way thru the game we got used to the setup (read: “less distracted by”) and we were pointing to the tweets (“pay attention”) in the same way we’d point to instant replay.
Matt Laher said something along the lines of “The dual screen made the party uncrowded but huge.” MSG and I were thinking this will be the last time we’ll (er, all of us) will watch the SuperBowl + Twitter on two separate screens. Everyone will do this next year. Someone’s gotta hack this up for the masses ASAP. I know Samsung / Boxee are trying it, but not like this. It’s not about showing hashtags from everyone - hashtags are still for nerds (and plus you can’t filter hashtags by “from friends only” - watching a global Twitter search on “superbowl” feels spammy and irrelevant). And it’s not just about tweets from friends — I mean, the only reason this even worked was because 97% of the people I were following were tweeting about the SuperBowl. Instead there needs to be some smart way of knowing that a tweet is tied to a channel/show (meta data dance party!). Think of how Twitter is geotagging tweets and then imagine if you could swap out “40.72, -73.98” for “Superbowl”, “Oscars”, “True Blood s3e10”. You’d need a twitter client that was smart enough to know what you were watching (hello HotPotato!) and an on-screen layer that was smart enough to tell the Twitter API what you’re watching (again, “Superbowl”, “Oscars”, “True Blood s3e10”… maybe do this via some audio recognition, a la Shazam?) ps: Dear Twitter, please add a “only show results from my followers” to Twitter Search soonish. It would enable the rest of us to build the fun stuff. Anyway, this is a fun problem to solve. If I wasn’t working on foursquare, I think this would be my thing. (looking forward to trying again - Oscar Party anyone?)
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Dual screen setup @ my SuperBowl party: one for game, one for tweets. Great backchannel for ads. This is the future.
Partly inspired what Twitter did w/ the debates in summer 08 (dual screen, tweets vs. TV) I rigged up something similar for SuperBowl 2010.
My LCD on the left was hooked up to my MacBook and with TwitterFall was streaming tweets from the people I’m following (of which 97% where about the SuperBowl and from friends-of-everyone-in-the-room). [see pic]
The dual screen gave us a running commentary of what our friends where saying about both the game and the ads. And just as you’d multitask between different IM windows at work, we’d shift glances from Twitter to Superbowl whenever there was downtime on either screen.
Like Twitter itself, it’s hard to explain how interesting this was unless you were actually a part of it, but the combination of seeing our friends tweets and our own running commentary (from the folks on the couch) — AND it then spawning conversation around the coffee table — was kind of fascinating. About 1/2 way thru the game we got used to the setup (read: “less distracted by”) and we were pointing to the tweets (“pay attention”) in the same way we’d point to instant replay.Matt Laher said something along the lines of “The dual screen made the party uncrowded but huge.” MSG and I were thinking this will be the last time we’ll (er, all of us) will watch the SuperBowl + Twitter on two separate screens. Everyone will do this next year.
Someone’s gotta hack this up for the masses ASAP. I know Samsung / Boxee are trying it, but not like this. It’s not about showing hashtags from everyone - hashtags are still for nerds (and plus you can’t filter hashtags by “from friends only” - watching a global Twitter search on “superbowl” feels spammy and irrelevant). And it’s not just about tweets from friends — I mean, the only reason this even worked was because 97% of the people I were following were tweeting about the SuperBowl.
Instead there needs to be some smart way of knowing that a tweet is tied to a channel/show (meta data dance party!). Think of how Twitter is geotagging tweets and then imagine if you could swap out “40.72, -73.98” for “Superbowl”, “Oscars”, “True Blood s3e10”. You’d need a twitter client that was smart enough to know what you were watching (hello HotPotato!) and an on-screen layer that was smart enough to tell the Twitter API what you’re watching (again, “Superbowl”, “Oscars”, “True Blood s3e10”… maybe do this via some audio recognition, a la Shazam?) ps: Dear Twitter, please add a “only show results from my followers” to Twitter Search soonish. It would enable the rest of us to build the fun stuff.
Anyway, this is a fun problem to solve. If I wasn’t working on foursquare, I think this would be my thing.
(looking forward to trying again - Oscar Party anyone?)—
That’s awesome. Count us in for the Oscars!
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