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Verizin FiOS Widgets Bazaar brings Twitter and Facebook to your TV




Remember those rising files Facebook and Twitter features we told you about? Well, they finally arrived. Verizon is in the middle of rolling out its Widget Bazaar, which includes Twitter and Facebook integration. You’ll be able to see what others are tweeting in regards to the show that you’re watching in the read-only Twitter widget. For example, if you’re watching a baseball game, you can pull up the Twitter widget to see what others are saying about the same game.

A Facebook widget is also being introduced, and will allow you to see a basic view of your news feed, even allowing you to see your friends photos. While you can’t do any manual updates, the Facebook widget does support sending status updates showing what shows you’re watching. The one caveat here, is that you can currently only have one Facebook profile on a files cable box.

There are other features here as well, as blip.tv, DailyMotion, and Veoh videos will be available to Home Media DVR subscribers.

According to Verizon, this is just the beginning. Their plan is to allow developers access to their open platform so that more interactive files TV applications will be available.


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Comments:

It is really cool that Fios finally brought the use of Facebook and Twitter to their customers through their TV service. I do think they designed the widget to be too limited in functionality. I work for Dish Network and with the Logitech Revue with Google TV I have access to the Twitter app and I can browse the web and bring up Facebook like I would on any computer. If Fios is trying to match Google TV they have some more work to do but they are headed in the right direction.


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