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Comcast acquires Plaxo, your set-top box wants to meet your friends

Assuming you're not Twitter, Facebook and Pownce'd to death already, Comcast is bringing the social network universe straight to your set-top box. This morning it announced the purchase of Plaxo, the company already behind Comcast's universal address book due later this year. By tying together TV plus online parts like Fandango and Fancast, it aims to ease sharing media between your various devices, family and friends. Add in tru2way app possibilities, and the future of our DVR looks increasingly networked (and a bit complicated.)

[Via News.com]

TiVo brings My TV application to Facebook


TiVo's (intelligently) dipping its toes into the social networking waters by delivering the My TV application on Facebook. Granted, you don't have to have a TiVo in order to join in, and while it'd be much nicer if you could import programs from your Season Pass, it's not a half bad start. Users who add the application can discuss episodes of their favorite shows with others, find out what friends are tuning into and discover material you aren't currently watching (but totally should be). Eventually, we -- like Gizmo Lovers -- would greatly appreciate some sort of actual TiVo integration, and if it plans on setting itself apart from all the other me-too STBs, it probably wouldn't be a bad move.

[Via Gizmo Lovers]




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