Audio Interview: Forbes Michael Wolf and'Dijit's Jeremy Toeman on Social TV

written by: Richard Kastelein

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Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 10:59

Forbes Michael Wolf and'Dijit's Jeremy Toeman chat on Digit, new features of Nextguide and Social TV. Click below.

In the latest update to Dijit's NextGuide application, several new features have been introduced that make it even more "sociable:"

• Bookmarking - want to make your own personal TV watchlist? Tap the new "bookmark" button on any show or movie
• Live Social View lets you see when your friends (or anybody) watch or favorite shows
• Find Friends now support email, Facebook, or searching by name
• Easily discover when Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, iTunes, and Netflix add new TV shows and movies to their libraries
• Overhauled category & interest preferences interface with simple tap and drag UI
• Big Search improvements, including search by Director

Amazon Prime and Amazon Instant Video is now included among the other services Dijit links in to, as well as a bevy of additional features:

• New Gestures
• Enhanced Cast & Crew with Wikipedia biography lookups
• New Category editor with easy drag and drop setup
• Channel Setup is now part of the Initial Setup Wizard
• Improved "Your Picks" algorithms
• And lots of other little goodies to explore