Using Verizon FiOS Twitter Widget

So, let’s say you are watching your favorite reality show and it’s the last episode. It is so much fun to see what everyone is saying about the show while you are watching. So, let’s bring up the Twitter widget on our Verizon FiOS box.

There are quite a few different types of widgets available from Verizon FiOS in categories like sports, news, social networking, games and more. I am going to show you Social Networking widgets today so that is where we will start.

We choose Twitter first and launch it.

This is what the TV looks like before the Twitter widget is launched. We are watching Wizards of Waverly Place today, but you would be watching your favorite reality show finale.

And when the Twitter widget comes up, you see a stream of Twitter comments about the show you are watching.

You can refresh the stream to see the new comments. You can sign in to Twitter and update your own status from the Verizon FiOS widget.

If you want to let everyone on Facebook know you are watching your favorite reality show finale on Verizon FiOS, you can do that too. Bring up the Facebook widget and sign in.

Then you can update your status, find out what everyone else is doing and even look at pictures.

A few other fun widgets available on Verizon FiOS TV are traffic….

and “Hot on TV”…..

and the weather.

You can access so much from the comfort of your couch with Verizon FiOS services.

Want to know how to use your smartphone as a Verizon FiOS TV remote? Check out my other Verizon FiOS TV post.

Verizon FiOS Availability

Verizon FiOS is not available everywhere, so please check the availability in your area.

Disclosure: I wrote this review while participating in a brand team campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Verizon FiOS.Verizon will send me a gift card to thank me for taking the time to participate. All opinion are 100% my own.

Let’s Talk About Verizon FiOS!

Do you have Verizon FiOS? Do you use the widgets? What are your thoughts?

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Instead of letting all that awesome information collect dust in my mail folder, I’ve decided to start a “Daily Geek Find” column. Each day I will bring you at least one of my geek finds. I won’t write up a big review, but instead I will tell you what the tool does and how it will enhance your life.  I will give you the option to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down also. If you find cool stuff, let me know.

And today is day one of my Daily Geek Find and I had a hard time deciding which tool to show you first. I finally decided to show you a tool for your email that I use every day.

Rapportive

Rapportive shows you more about the person(s) emailing you. Rapportive shows you the social networking accounts that are associated with their email address. You can add them as a friend on Facebook or LinkedIn right from your email. I can see their last few Twitter updates, Facebook updates, Klout & Peer Index all from my email.

Here is a screen print of what mine looks like. If you are a Rapportive user, you can also update what is shown.

That is what is shown to the right of my open email in Gmail. Rapportive works in Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Mailplane.

What do you think? Awesome or not?  [starthumbsblock tpl=25]

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Being online has opened up my world. I have met women that I have a lot in common with that I never would have met before. I want to know about your online vs offline friendships.

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1. Twitter. My TweetDeck is all decked out to catch the hashtags #bwe09 (Blog World Expo) and #sitscation (Sitscation) and #cbbwe (Collective Bias Blog World Expo) streams.

2. Whrrl. This is the best way to virtually attend the parties because you can see the pictures along with the notes from everyone attending. Search for the hashtags #bwe09, #sitscation & #cbbwe on Whrrl to find the stories.

3. mycontent.com is live streaming all of the keynotes and a few of the sessions from Blog World Expo.

This may not be as good as attending in person, but it definitely is beneficial. I am learning a lot from watching the keynotes and reading all the tweets coming out of all the sessions (and I can attend all the sessions at once). I have made quite a few contacts through Twitter by contacting those that are tweeting something that interests me and asking questions.

You may not be able to attend all of the conferences throughout the year, but don’t let that stop you from networking and learning from these conferences.

What have you learned from watching the tweets and following the stories from conferences you didn’t attend in person?

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There it is. Twitter and Facebook on my Verizon Fios TV. I added Twitter first. I can not update my own twitter status, but I can see what topics are trending and see any twitter comments about the show I’m watching. That sounds pretty cool, but it has a flaw. I was watching the Today show, so Verizon searched twitter for all mentions of the word today.  I saw a lot of comments like, “Good Morning! What are you doing today?” I couldn’t find one tweet about the show I was watching. Verizon need to search for hashtags instead of just words to make the tweets more relevant. I can see this as being a lot of fun during some of the shows, like American Idol or Biggest Loser for example. I love to tweet and watch those shows at the same time.

Next, I moved onto Facebook. I was able to add my username and password and view my own account. Both Twitter & Facebook appear on the right side of the screen with the show I’m watching on the left.

The only thing I could see this morning was my Friend’s Status Updates. The other options timed out. If you click on “What are you watching?” you can update your status on Facebook with the name of the TV show you are watching.

Next time you are watching TV and think, “I’m just too lazy to get up and go to the computer or grab my phone, but I really need to check Facebook or Twitter,” you can just click on the widget button on Verizon Fios and never leave the couch. All my time suckers in one place. How convenient!

How useful do you think these features are? Will you use them?

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Facebook will finally offer usernames on June 13th at 12:01 am EDT.  Up until now, our profiles included a number like this one:

But, no more. You will now be able to choose your own username. It will be on a first-come, first-serve basis starting at 12:01 am EDT on June 13, 2009 (this Saturday). You will be able to choose your username by going to Facebook’s Username page (which is now a countdown page). The username is available for your personal profile and any Facebook pages you administer.

Once you pick your username, your facebook profile will look like this:

Your username will have to be at least 5 characters long and can include, numbers, letters or a period. Once you choose your username, you will not be able to change it, so think very carefully about what you’d like to use and I would think of a back-up too, just in case your first choice is taken.

Once you choose your username, others will be able to search for your username on Facebook and in search engines like Google. That should make finding others easier if you use a username that others will recognize. Your username will also come with search privacy settings like your profile does.

Now, I have to decide if I want scrappinmichele or if I should use michele.mcgraw.

What will you choose for your username?

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You need to check it out…you can get a lot of friends to start by going to this page and adding people as friends. There are a lot of friendly people there and so far, I’ve received NO spam!!!! Don’t forget to add me too….ScrappinMichele

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