With Comcast’s Tunerfish, TV Becomes Social

Popular tech blog TechCrunch is hosting its TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York and according to this post, Comcast made an interesting product announcement.  Dubbed “Tunerfish“, Comcast’s new product will enable users to share what they are watching on any social network, in real time.  While that in and of itself isn’t all that exciting (I could do that pretty easily now by tweeting or updating my FB status), they will aggregate this data with your friends so you can be introduced to new shows you may not be aware of.  Add to this multi-platform (will work with YouTube, Vimeo and others) and a rewards based system for people that share, and they may have a winning product on their hands.   Look for the public beta coming in 2 weeks.

I’ve long felt that the problem with the growth of channels/content is that there is just SO much of it.  While it won’t solve the issue, at least this may help.   I wonder if Nielsen is worried…

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