I’m a big fan of Frog Design’s recently launched iPhone App called tvChatter which makes watching television social. Most consumers are already tweeting/facebooking/chatting on their laptops while watching television, so Frog did a logical thing by continuing to enable that behavior, but they made it dead simple to continue doing this. This nicely designed and compact app simplifies and categorizes real-time twitter commentary in an iPhone App based off of the social program guide. Check out the demo of tvChatter that I scraped from YouTube. The demo walks you through the basic features and special options for the app. Users can watch their favorite shows on their TVs or PCs while tvChatter presents real time Twitter-fueled commentary about the program. Users that have a Twitter account can post their own comments, reply to others or filter their followers for a more intimate conversation.

Bravo Frog. Simple concept, well executed, and super useful.