Interactive Media Display Across Devices

A computer-implemented method of obtaining media content, comprising:

• receiving, by a computing system, a command for display of recommended media content;
• identifying, by the computing system, one or more friends associated with a user of the computing system;
• causing, by the computing system, representations of media content recommended by the one or more friends to be displayed on a television;
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• causing, by the computing system, media content recommended by the one or more friends to be displayed on the television, wherein causing the media content to be displayed includes causing bumper content that comprises previews of following media files to be displayed between adjacent pieces of the media content;
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• receiving, by the computing system, a skip input from the user while bumper content is being displayed, and in response, causing the following media file associated with the bumper content to be skipped.

A computer-implemented method of sharing network-accessible media content, comprising:

• displaying, by a computing system and in a media sharing application, one or more objects illustrating (i) acquaintances of a first user or (ii) groups associated with the first user;
• receiving, by the computing system and from the first user, a selection placing a media program from a display of multiple media programs on one of the objects that is associated with a second user or group of users;
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• providing, by the computing system, information about the media program to a central media repository for indicating a recommendation of the media program by the first user to the second user or group of users.

A computer-implemented media recommendation system, comprising:

• a computing device-related client operating a media sharing application that displays a list of devices, and permits media program indicators to be dropped on the devices to recommend media programs that correspond to the dropped media program indicators for display by the respective devices;
• a media programming repository storing information from the media sharing application that indicates media programs that have been recommended for display by the respective devices;
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• a television-related client device programmed to receive from the media programming repository media programs or pointers to media programs that have been recommended for display by the television-related client device, the television-related client device being one of the devices.