Updated: Last night BET’s Hip Hop Awards took place, a major tent pole for the network, next to their annual BET Awards. The awards, hosted by Mike Epps saw a huge amount of social TV activity both during the linear broadcast, before and after. Social TV has flourished during major television awards shows and the spectacle that’s needed on the main screen is nothing if it doesn’t translate onto Facebook, Twitter, GetGlue and more. Trendrr shared the results from last night’s awards with Lost Remote. Read more

BET's major tentpole, the BET Awards took place last night, and it took over the social web. Last year's awards saw some major integrations, and the network promised to ramp things up even further. Trendrr provided insights on the social buzz, and we spoke to BET Director of Social Media JP Lespinasse about the social TV aftermath.

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Storify has already been making a splash in the social TV world. Newsrooms like The Weather Channel have used the tools to curate conversations about severe weather, and in recent months the San Francisco-based startup has rolled out a new design and launched an iPad app. Today, the company has announced that they are adding GetGlue to the mix of social platforms you can pull content from to better curate conversations around TV.

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Last night we attended the star-studded BET upfronts in New York. As TV's largest advertisers and media buyers descended upon the Best Buy Theater in Times Square to see what @BET, with nearly 640,000 Twitter followers had in store for linear and digital for the fall and 2013. BET is no stranger to robust social TV implementations as we saw at the BET Awards last summer and continue to see via 106 and Park, a show that constantly launches trending topics like they're lines in a script....

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