Smart TV Platform Flingo Merges Television and the Web

By Dennis Kuba
July 8, 2011

Flingo has created a development platform to integrate the Web and TV.
The company’s video demo shows how you can “fling” a YouTube video from your PC to your TV.
Their technology is already available in over half the TVs being sold including those from Samsung, LG, Vizio and Western Digital.
It is currently available on 5.7 million TVs in 117 countries. You can also buy Flingo-enabled Blu-ray players and Roku boxes.
The goal is to merge TV and the Web, allowing media partners like Fox, Showtime and others to build apps that integrate both.
Flingo was founded in 2008 by former BitTorrent employees Ashwin Navin and David Harrison.

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