In it, Apple describes how widgets could appear on-screen while people are watching an Apple TV. the widgets could provide live sport scores, news feeds, or chat functionality to talk to other viewers or friends elsewhere.
These features include video shows based on mobile Kyte uploads; blog, news, and Twitter feeds; live chat; a presence indicator showing how many other people are currently in the app; music or video downloads via the iTunes store; location-aware event listings for tour dates and other listings, mobile Web access, and custom modules such as basketball scores.
FA: Many shows have twitter feeds and chat rooms.
You can still tweet, instant message, play mp3 (with mplayer), browse the web (with Lynx or Links2), p2p (amulecmd), torrent (rtorrent), image edit (ImageMagick), read feeds (raggle), chat (irssi), ofm (midnight commander), manage downloads (axel, wget) and everything else.
Unlike feeds, text chats and likes, video is the first real aspect of the company's social platform that can justify a standalone device.
When you are not checking your Facebook feeds or chatting with your friends, Facebook's chatbots will offer you 1000s of options to stay busy and entertained.
The patent describes a way for it to work with both still images and video, which is probably why it's described as being useful both for mobile devices and for Macs, where it could help improve video quality being fed to chat applications from the built-in FaceTime camera.
People can still easily jump in between group feeds and friend chat.
Besides Twitter feeds, RSS, and chat, Kyte also offers a listing of each artist's most recent videos taken using Kyte.tv's mobile phone video apps.
Key features include activity feeds, a new chat interface, multiplayer (which Kim-Mai has covered more here), leaderboards, and a variety of other additions designed to unify the company's titles.
