| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.02.2013 | How To Watch The Superbowl Online | Cord-cutting, it is commonly known, isn’t ideal for sports fans. There are just too many games that require a cable subscription to watch and pirating each one would be too cumbersome. Fortunately for those who want to tune into Superbowl X... |
| 01.02.2013 | Social TV Startup Dijit Buys Miso To Re-Define The Second Screen | When rumors come true! Two weeks ago we reported on a tip that social TV startup Dijit, maker of the NextGuide iPad app, was in the process of acquiring quasi-competitor Miso. The deal took a little bit longer than we expected to actually g... |
| 05.11.2012 | Social TV Startup Miso Pivots Again, Launches Quips App To Let Users Share Their Favorite TV Moments | As startups go, social TV startup Miso has pivoted more than most: The company started out as just another TV check-in app, then launched a product to let users create and browse guides to all their TV episodes. Now it’s pivoting again, wit... |
| 07.10.2012 | Twitter Dominates Live TV Because Social TV Is Failing | Editor’s note: Somrat Niyogi is the CEO of Miso.
Every time I turn on the TV, I see Twitter . Hashtags and Twitter handles are on TV shows. There are dedicated pages to world events like the Olympic Games. Even entertainment news reporting ... |
| 03.10.2012 | How to watch the presidential debates online | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Unlike the last election cycle, the 2012 presiden... |
| 07.09.2012 | As The Dockpocalypse Nears, Bluetooth-Enabled iPhone Substitutes Abound | Next week, Apple is expected to announce a new iPhone complete with a new dock connector, finally putting to bed the 30-pin design that’s been in use since time immemorial (so long as you can’t remember past nine years ago, like me). Rumors... |
| 27.05.2012 | Please Don’t Ruin The Second Screen | Editor’s note:Somrat Niyogi is the CEO of Miso.
There are advantages and disadvantages of being one of the earlier companies in a very early market. While new companies get to watch, observe, and create their own insights based on product f... |
| 05.04.2012 | RWW Recommends: The Best Channel-Surfing Companion App for TV Trivia | People love to use their tablets while watching TV. With so many different “second-screen” mobile apps out there, it’s not always easy to know which are the best. Here’s a look at our favorite app for finding related content while you’re wa... |
| 03.04.2012 | Why The Future of Shazam Is TV, Not Music | Shazam is one of the most popular smartphone apps of all time. Most people know it as that clever app that “listens” to a song and identifies the name of it. Today Shazam released the fifth major version of its iPhone app. But what’s more i... |
| 05.02.2012 | A web geek’s round-up for watching the Super Bowl | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The NFL’s Super Bowl championship football game i... |
| 05.02.2012 | A web geek’s round-up for watching the Super Bowl | The NFL’s Super Bowl championship football game is routinely one of the most watched televised events of the year with over 100 million viewers. But increasingly, people don’t just want to watch the game, they want to interact with it. For ... |
| 02.02.2012 | ConnecTV Prepares To Take On IntoNow With New Social TV Platform | Today, a company called ConnecTV is launching an ambitious new service for socializing the TV viewing experience using mobile and web-based applications. The new app, available first on the iPad, with Android tablet support in the works, is... |
| 29.12.2011 | Social media trends to look out for in 2012 | From politics to legal battles, 2012 is gearing up for even more social media innovation
This year was filled to the brim with tech IPOs, acquisitions and major moves to the expanding mobile landscape.
1- Second screen focus
This year we st... |
| 01.12.2011 | Miso secures $4M funding for second screen TV platform | Khosla, Google, Hearst invest in social TV networking to capture audiences on multiple screens
There has been a great deal of buzz around the second-screen phenomenon. In our media-saturated lives, it is no longer enough to watch a show on ... |
| 01.12.2011 | Social TV startup Miso closes $4M round from Khosla, Google Ventures & others | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Social TV service Miso has raised a new $4 millio... |
| 01.12.2011 | Khosla, Google Ventures And Hearst Put $4M In Social TV Platform Miso | The social app for TV content Miso has just raised $4 million in new funding from Khosla Ventures, with existing investors Google Ventures and Hearst Interactive Media participating in the round. This brings Miso’s total funding to $6 milli... |
| 01.12.2011 | Miso Raises $4M in Funding | Miso, a San Francisco, CA-based social TV platform, has raised an additional $4m in funding.
The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Google Ventures and Hearst Interactive Media.
The company has raised $6m to date.
Co-... |
| 01.12.2011 | Jive, Solaria, Awe.sm: Bay Area Biztech News by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s been a while since our last data-driven news roundup of Bay Area business and technology news. Here are some of the choicest tidbits from the last few days, from biggest ... |
| 01.12.2011 | Social TV startup Miso closes $4M round from Khosla, Google Ventures & others | Social TV service Miso has raised a new $4 million round of funding, the startup announced on its blog today.
Miso’s service, which has about 250,000 users, works by allowing people to check-in, rate, comment, earn badges and complete quizz... |
| 27.09.2011 | Miso transforms Dexter’s season premiere into a ‘Pop-Up Video’ experience | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Social TV platform Miso is launching a new feature today that adds original synchronized content to TV episodes watched on a DirecTV se... |
| 27.09.2011 | Miso transforms Dexter’s season premiere into a ‘Pop-Up Video’ experience | Social TV platform Miso is launching a new feature today that adds original synchronized content to TV episodes watched on a DirecTV set-top box.
Basically, when users check in using Miso’s iPhone app, they’ll get push notifications asking ... |
| 22.09.2011 | Round-up: 7 drastic Facebook changes you will probably hate | Facebook’s annual developer conference was packed with news about big changes coming to the social network.
And if past history is any guide, most of you are probably going to be outraged by the changes, at least at first.
According to info... |
| 22.09.2011 | Round-up: 7 drastic Facebook changes you will probably hate | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook’s annual developer conference was packed... |
| 20.09.2011 | GetGlue gets more social with new iPhone app update | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
GetGlue, the social network that lets you check in for all things entertainment, is rolling out a big update to both its iPhone app and... |
| 20.09.2011 | GetGlue gets more social with new iPhone app update | GetGlue, the social network that lets you check in for all things entertainment, is rolling out a big update to both its iPhone app and website today.
The update pulls in conversations about different kinds of entertainment (TV shows, movie... |
| 01.09.2011 | Miso makes it easier to share what you’re watching on DirecTV | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
TV and movie watching social network Miso just made it easier for DirecTV customers to share their viewing habits with friends.
The com... |
| 18.08.2011 | Finally: Foursquare lets you check in to movies, sports games and concerts | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Location-based social network Foursquare now allows its users to check in at specific events, the company announced today on its blog.
... |
| 04.08.2011 | LocalResponse checks in to social TV advertising with Philo acquisition | Now businesses can keep an eye on consumers checking in in TV land and the real world at the same time. LocalResponse, a company that helps businesses monitor and respond to check-ins, today announced its acquisition of Philo Media Corporat... |
| 04.08.2011 | LocalResponse checks in to social TV advertising with Philo acquisition | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Now businesses can keep an eye on consumers check... |
| 25.04.2011 | Yahoo Moves Fast — Real Fast — To Scoop Up IntoNow For $20 – $30 Million | This past January, upon seeing a demo of IntoNow, we noted that the media check-in game just changed. Apparently, Yahoo agreed — they’ve just acquired the company for something in the range of $20 to $30 million, sources with knowledge of t... |
| 07.01.2011 | Funding roundup - week ending 01/07/11 | After the holiday slowdown, fifteen early- and late-stage startups raise altogether over $200M
Early-stage
Assistly, a provider of socially-networked customer service, has raised a $3 million second round of funding from Bullpen Capital, In... |
| 05.01.2011 | Bazaar Labs Raises $1.5M in Series A Funding Round | Bazaar Labs, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of web and mobile applications, raised $1.5m in its Series A funding round.
The round was led by Google Ventures with participation from Hearst Interactive Media.
Bazaar Labs, which was found... |
| 05.01.2011 | What you need to know - Wednesday 01/05/11 | Miso raised $1.5M; 33Across $9M; Symplified $9M; GroupMe $10.6M; Groupon sues Scoopon
Symplified, a maker of access management tools for cloud applications, raised $9 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Granite Ventures and Al... |
| 05.01.2011 | TV check-in site Miso raises $1.5M | The site, created by Bazaar Labs, is backed by Google Ventures and Hearst
TV check-in service Miso announced Wednesday morning that it recently closed a Series A round of funding to the tune of $1.5 million. The round was led by Google Vent... |
| 04.01.2011 | Hearst, Google, and Oprah check in to social TV app Miso | Bazaar Labs, the startup that created TV check-in app Miso, just announced that it has raised $1.5 million in its first institutional round of funding.
The San Francisco company also shared some numbers about its progress today. Since it la... |
| 04.01.2011 | TV Content Check-In App Miso Lands $1.5M From Google Ventures And Hearst | The check-in app for TV content Miso has just announced $1.5 million in new funding led by Google Ventures with Hearst Interactive Media also participating in the round. The startup had previously raised seed funding last May from angel inv... |
| 23.11.2010 | Why check in to TV shows? Miso’s new answer: For the deals | Whenever I talk about apps that allow users to share what they’re watching with friends by “checking in” to a TV show, the first question anyone asks me is, ‘Why the heck would I want to do that?” Social TV startup Miso has been exploring d... |
| 12.10.2010 | BuddyTV Bets the Company That TV Will Go Social on Smartphones and Tablets | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based BuddyTV got its start as a place where people could go online to talk about their favorite shows. But five years later, a lot of the hit shows have changed, and ... |
| 22.09.2010 | Wanting To Be Don Draper Now Gets You Something On GetGlue | Back in July, when writing about GetGlue’s partnership with HBO, I told CEO Alex Iskold that if they struck a deal to get Mad Men stickers from AMC, I’d be on board. Well, he went out and did just that. So here I am, loading up GetGlue.
And... |
| 09.09.2010 | GetGlue Brings Social Recommendations Goodness To The iPad; Lands Deal With Fox | GetGlue, a social browsing assistant that shows ratings and recommendations of movies, books, restaurants, stocks, and more on the web, has been on a roll lately when it comes to the startup’s mobile strategy. In less than three months, Get... |
| 01.09.2010 | Why Apple’s Ping is about cutting out the social middleman | This morning at a press conference in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Ping, a social network for music that will be bundled into the next version of iTunes, its music software.
After ten iterations of iTunes, Ping marks Apple’... |
| 17.08.2010 | Social Recommendations Startup GetGlue Launches Android App, Mobile Website | GetGlue, a social browsing assistant that shows ratings and recommendations of movies, books, restaurants, stocks, and more on the web, is furthering its mobile strategy today with the launch of an Android app and mobile website.
Similar to... |
| 17.08.2010 | 5M Monthly Check-Ins Later, GetGlue Comes to Android | Check-in apps are all the rage in the mobile space, but these days users aren’t just checking into business and landmarks. Apps like Miso and Facebook’s recent acquisition Hot Potato, which allow users to check-in to movies, TV shows, books... |
| 03.08.2010 | fflick’s Sentiment Engine Turns Twitter Into A Crowdsourced Movie Critic | Any time there’s a new movie hitting theaters, there’s a good chance that some of your friends (and thousands of other people) are tweeting about it. Unfortunately, there’s also a good chance that you’re going to miss or forget about those ... |
| 28.07.2010 | HBO Sinks Its Teeth Into GetGlue To Reward Fans For Checking-In To Hit Shows | Forget about checking-in to venues. Apparently, the new thing to do is to check-in to whatever you’re doing — like watching television shows, or reading a book. It’s something that Hot Potato offers, and they’re in the process of being acqu... |
| 26.07.2010 | After checking in at retailers, Booyah zooms in on products | Booyah, the San Francisco-based company most famous for its location-based game MyTown, launched a new feature over the weekend for its service called the product check-in. In short, it means users can “check in” with a T-shirt, much like t... |
| 12.07.2010 | Where Do You Check In? The Northwest’s Location-Based Search and Social Networking Mini Cluster | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The rising popularity of New York, NY-based Foursquare, which launched in March of 2009 and has quickly become the most popular location-based social networking mobile applica... |
| 25.06.2010 | Miso takes social TV beyond badges | When San Francisco startup Bazaar Labs launched its Miso application in March, the easy shorthand for describing the app was “Foursquare for movies and TV.” In other words, it used the check-in model popularized by location services like Fo... |
| 24.06.2010 | Smashing the Passive TV: New Check-in Apps Make Entertainment Social Again | Do you want to chat with friends who are watching the same TV shows you are or reading the same books? Do you want to check in to record and share a history of your offline entertainment activities? Many startups think you will and the numb... |
| 02.06.2010 | Google Ventures invests in social TV app Miso | Bazaar Labs, the startup behind an iPhone application that lets users share what movies and TV they’re watching, just revealed the addition of one more investor in its seed round: Google Ventures.
The San Francisco company’s app is called M... |
| 22.05.2010 | “Foursquare for TV” app Miso gets seed funding | Bazaar Labs, the creator of a mobile application for sharing what movies and television you’re watching called Miso, just announced that it has raised a seed round of undisclosed size.
Miso is modeled on Foursquare, the mobile application f... |
| 22.05.2010 | Miso Tunes Into Some Seed Funding For Check-Ins Based Around Content | Checking-in has so far mainly been thought about in terms of location. But there’s a growing idea that it can be ported to other things as well — such as checking-in when you’re watching a movie or television show to let others know. That’s... |
| 27.03.2010 | Miso Gets Big Brand Love. Check-In To The Hot Tub Time Machine | For the past few years, being the “Twitter for FILL-IN-THE-BLANK” has been a popular trend among startups. Now, we’re starting to see a shift. Several new startups are launching as the “Foursquare for FILL-IN-THE-BLANK.” And big brands are ... |
| 19.03.2010 | Weekend Fun: New Apps for Your iPhone | As one of ReadWriteWeb’s iPhone users, I’m always looking for new applications to try out. Some get downloaded for a day and then deleted right away, others slowly inch their way closer to my homescreen. Even rarer are the ones that become ... |
| 09.03.2010 | Miso: A Foursquare-Like App for Homebodies | If your Foursquare check-ins could be limited to backyard outings and trips to the mailbox, you may be interested in a new mobile application called Miso. With this service, a startup from Bazaar Labs, also the makers of a social network ca... |
| 08.03.2010 | Bazaar Labs launches Miso, a Foursquare-style app for TV and movies | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A startup called Bazaar Labs just released a new app called Miso, way to share what movies and TV shows you’re watching with your frien... |
| 08.03.2010 | Bazaar Labs launches Miso, a Foursquare-style app for TV and movies | A startup called Bazaar Labs just released a new app called Miso, way to share what movies and TV shows you’re watching with your friends. Like the company’s last app, FlixUp, this is a movie-focused spin on an existing social service.
The ... |
