GetGlue was ahead of its time, and quickly fell behind the
times.  The standalone TV check-in app allowed users to follow
certain shows, check in to shows to chat about them with other
fans, and share what TV they were watching with a wider
community of TV fans. GetGlue understood that people want to
share their TV watching activity on social media. Other services
emerged that did much the same thing. Another second screen app,
IntoNow, was purchased by Yahoo in 2011 and shut down earlier
this month — folded into Yahoo's wider TV-related offerings. 
In a recent report from BI Intelligence, we describe how the
second screen industry is consolidating, as a slew of different
social TV services whittle down to a select few, and big-time
social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, push further into
social TV.   Now that i.TV has bought GetGlue and is relaunching
it with beefed-up content, that consolidation appears to be
firmly under way.   BI Intelligence has found that people do
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