How Al Jazeera is Forging the Future of Social TV

March 9, 2012 | Source: ReadWriteWeb

Al Jazeera’s The Stream brings TV news into the real world by marrying social media and TV.

Besides Twitter and Facebook, the “open source” show uses Reddit for selecting story ideas, Pinterest as a way to share photographs and other images related to topics covered on the show, Google+ Hangouts for group interviews, Skype for remote interviews, and and Storify for social curation.