It’s been a rather eventful weekend, and here are a few stories we’re reading…

- How news of the VP choice spread – Romney’s camp said the VP announcement would appear first via the campaign’s mobile app, but NBC News broke the news first, spreading fast on Twitter:

- Report: Gannett to buy Blinq – TechCrunch is reporting that Gannett is buying Blinq, the Facebook advertising software and services company, to beef up its social marketing and analytics capability.

- BarryDriller.com sued by FOX – An Aereo clone called BarryDriller has launched in several cities, atrracting a lawsuit from FOX and comments from Aereo founder Barry Diller.

- Twitter clone hits funding goal – App.net achieved its $500,000 crowdfunding goal nearly two days early, and it may be Twitter’s real first challenge yet with an open, yet subscription-based model.

- HuffPo Live launching – At 10 a.m. on Monday, Huffington Post launches its live streaming effort.

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GetGlue HD is almost here. The major update to their app, being released for the iPad, will happen sometime this month. Buzz began around HD before the Social TV summit when Iskold revealed more details how how they're moving beyond the check-in. While the final launch date hasn't been announced, we spoke to the NYC-based CEO who gave us further details on what to expect.

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Anderson Cooper has had a big year. The news anchor and talk show host has continue to grow his influence offline and on the social web. His syndicated talk show Anderson Live (formerly Anderson) just announced it's season two premiere, and built into the production is a robust social TV strategy to take advantage of the new format. We talk to Executive Producer Terence Noonan about their social TV plans for the new season.

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Shark Week is coming and Discovery is still rolling out big social TV activations. We recently provided an inside look at their social TV strategy. Now we've spoken with Grace Lee from Twitter Media's four person TV team about "Shark Week Chompdown," Discovery's latest social TV initiative involving a mechanical shark. We spoke with Lee to learn how they're working with Discovery, how Twitter's been working with TV, her specific role on the team and the future of Twitter and TV.

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The VMAs are approaching again, and we're on the lookout for how they'll be able to outdo themselves this year in social TV. MTV is way beyond experimenting with social. They've hit 100 million plus likes and even the president of the network understands how important their social footprint is. They're also selling social to brands in big ways, and they're testing new waters in social by announcing the nominees and performers online to fuel digital sales and buzz.

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One of the most competitive sectors in social TV is the analytics and metrics space, and this week one of the big players made a key hire. Trendrr picked up Meghann Sills Elrhoul, the former manager of analytics at Nielsen, and named her its new VP of client services and analytics. "Meghann is one of the few people on earth following the analytics side of the industry as closely as we are..."

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It doesn't always take a massive marketing budget and team to produce a second screen experience for a scripted show. TNT's Leverage, which recently began it's fifth season, has become "the first major TV series to do a behind-the scenes episode guide as an iBooks Author title," according to Electric Entertainment, the production company behind the show.

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The Olympics isn't the only major sporting event taking place this summer. This Thursday, Turner Sports begins airing coverage of the PGA Championship, one of Golf's biggest events. The TV company has launched a social TV strategy to give fans a great opportunity than ever before to interact with the 18 hours of exclusive live coverage that will be on TNT.

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VH1's "Pop Up Video" empire doesn't receive nearly enough recognition for how it changed TV. Their innovative use of added-value content on linear TV set a precedent for many exciting social TV and second screen initiatives that include Miso Sideshows and HBO Go's wonderful "Interactive Features..."

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Food Network Star has become one of the Food Network's biggest tent poles. Justin Warner was recently crowned the winner as the show concluded its eighth season. Beyond an impressive Pinterest strategy, the Food Network has seen an impressive growth in its social footprint for the past season. Here's how...

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