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Social TV company, ffwd (the company offers what it calls "an audience-powered platform for video content navigation and discovery"), and multimedia business technology trade publication, InformationWeek, will today announce that videos from InformationWeek's TechWebTV service are available on Facebook through ffwd's ffwdPlayer application. According to the companies, the application, which is based on the ffwd and Facebook platforms, will publish new video to the news feed on InformationWeek's Facebook fan page, using the TechWebTV Brightcove feed, and will also maintain an "always up-to-date" videos tab on the page.

Social TV company, ffwd (the company describes its goals as to "reinterpret the television channel from the perspective of crowd sourcing, personalization and the social graph" and to "make the ever-expanding video Web easier to navigate"), has relaunched Twitmatic--the Web-based service which it unveiled just two months ago at [itvt]'s TV of Tomorrow Show and which originally presented users with a simple, real-time stream of videos being shared on microblogging service, Twitter--as a real-time search engine for Twitter videos.

Social TV/navigation company, ffwd (the company describes its goals as to "reinterpret the television channel from the perspective of crowd sourcing, personalization and the social graph" and to "make the ever-expanding video Web easier to navigate"), announced earlier this month the release of a Facebook application which it says will make it easier for "celebrities, companies, organizations and their fans" to make relevant video content discoverable through their social networks.

At the DEMOfall08 conference in San Diego earlier this month, a start- up called ffwd beta-launched its broadband video service, which originally launched in private beta last November.

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," Patrick Koppula, founder and
CEO of ffwd--a company that has just beta-launched a service that uses
social networking to facilitate Internet programming discovery and to
enhance the online viewing experience--discusses the service (which is
scheduled to launch commercially in September), the thinking behind
it, and ffwd's plans for enhancing it in the future; recounts the events
that led to his founding ffwd (he previously founded iLike.com and