Introducing the Twitter proof-of-concept app, an EBIF app created by Shawn Van Every of NYU. With EnableTV's help to get this app running and accessible via SlingPlayer, this the the first example of and end-to-end test that OEDN has facilitated.  

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This is a bound application (tied to an MPEG-2 stream) that puts up a button that says "Get Last Tweet". If you push the "Select" button on the remote, a Java CGI application which is used for EBIF 2-Way Packaging triggers a PHP script, which returns XML for packaging.  The PHP script uses the Twitter API and pulls up the latest message to Twitter.  When the EBIF application receives a response from the Java CGI app, it displays that message over the top of the video.  

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OEDN TV - NYU's ITP Lab's Prof. Shawn Van Every talks about students recently building EBIF apps using TVWorks XDK - a first in the US for OEDN's Academic Outreach Program

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Special thanks to Shawn Van Every, who led a group of students from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program (ITP) through an introductory EBIF & tru2way (OCAP) course last week.
 
During the first OEDN Academic Software Kit workshop, Prof. Van Every's students were exposed to  the emerging opportunities available for developing interactive television apps.

On July 9th, OEDN team members and TWC engineers dropped in on the summer session at the ITP lab, to talk about developing apps in EBIF. Take a look at the video and photos from the event below:

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This week Shawn Van Every of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program (ITP) has pulled a small group of students together to look at tru2way (OCAP) and EBIF.

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