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"Youtoo, which bills itself as the world's first Social TV Network, has just released a new Facebook app that allows users to be on TV.\nYoutoo launched in 2011 and is a cable network with a social twist. Users can record their own video responses to on-air cues and see themselves on TV. Users can also post their text comments about a show for on-air inclusion.\nTo date, the network has broadcast more than 90,000 viewer videos. Realty TV God Mark Burnett is an investor in Youtoo and sees huge potential in bridging the gap between TV viewers and on-air content.\nYoutoo already has mobile apps for iOS and Android that allow users to record 15-seconds of video and share them with the network. Now, the company is adding the ability for users to upload video directly from Facebook. \n\n\n\n\nUsers can respond to a question posed by the television program and Youtoo app and then record their response directly from Facebook. That response then shows up on the user's Timeline.\nIf approved and scheduled to air, Youtoo will send the user a message with the date and time of their TV appearance. For users who might miss their moment in the spotlight \u2014 or want to share it with others \u2014 Youtoo also creates, air checks and recorded video of the live showing, which is shareable via Facebook.\nIn essence, Youtoo is kind of like Viddy or SocialCam, but with the ability to share those clips on TV.\nYoutoo Technology is Coming to More Shows and Networks\nAlthough Youtoo is available in more than 15 million cable households, CEO Chris Wyatt really sees the network and the website as a way to test new products and technologies. Youtoo then works with television producers and networks to integrate those technologies into the shows themselves.\n\"Youtoo is a software company that just happens to have a TV network as its testbed,\" Wyatt says. The goal is to develop technology that others can then whitelabel and customize for their own uses.\n\n\n\n\nThis is important \u2014 because while Youtoo's current programming structure includes shows that can benefit from direct fan interaction, the real power is with shows that can integrate the functionality at a more granular level.\nYoutoo's style of social interaction \u2014 especially with video prompts, could be a great fit for talk shows and courtroom shows. That way instead of asking users to sound off on Facebook at the end of a Judge Joe Brown segment, the announcer could also show text from viewers or video reactions. \nWyatt tells us that Youtoo's technology \u2014 including the new Facebook app \u2014 will be powering dozens of shows this fall."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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