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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