We are pleased to have concluded our acquisition of TIOTI. We have been long-time fans of Paul Cleghorn and his views on the evolution of TV. For anyone who is not familiar with TIOTI, have a look at this promo video and feel free to look around the site.

While Vizimo has invested substantial effort into enabling content discovery through automated analysis of content, we’ve always been firm believers in the power of social recommendation. The best recommendations invariably come from friends who know what we like and whose tastes we respect. TIOTI has made fantastic progress towards enabling socially driven discovery of what to watch and we were excited by the prospects of boosting this with our analytical capability. Our objective is now to evolve the current site towards providing an unparalleled view of up-coming TV as well as historical TV content.

We’ve already launched an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, called TIOTI TV+ (available on the App Store). The app provides a view of what’s on TV, enables users to remotely set a PVR (Sky+ only at the moment), provides links to related iPlayer content and other viewing recommendations.

Watch this space.