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Miso is a San Francisco based social television company that uses a second screen app to enhance the TV viewing experience. In March 2010, Miso debuted the concept of the TV check-in at Austin's SXSW Interactive Festival, positioning itself as the Foursquare of television.〔Proulx, Mike, and Shepatin, Stacey. Social TV, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Songs, Inc., 2012〕 The company has since moved beyond check-ins by adding new features that allow increased user engagement around their television shows. == History == Miso launched the first version of its app for the iPhone on March 29, 2010.〔http://bazaarlabs.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/miso-raises-seed-financing-new-advisors-check-in-online-at-gomiso-com/〕 In June 2010, the app launched for the iPad, and the following month Version 2.0 of Miso was released, which also added the first app for Android users.〔http://blog.gomiso.com/2010/07/07/miso-2-0-now-available/〕 Miso first received seed funding in May 2010 from individual investors and Google Ventures.〔http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/04/tv-content-check-in-app-miso-lands-1-5m-from-google-ventures-and-hearst/〕 Later that year, Google Ventures and Hearst Corporation led the Series A funding for a total of $1.5M. 〔 The following month, Miso hit its first major milestone by surpassing 100,000 registered users. Early 2011 marked the release of the Miso API and a developer contest, which resulted in the platform being integrated and developed into devices such as the Windows 7 Phone, Blackberry Playbook, and others.〔http://blog.gomiso.com/2011/05/18/mobilendo-wins-api-contest-miso-launches-app-gallery/〕 In September 2011, Miso launched a new feature for DirecTV〔http://blog.gomiso.com/2011/09/01/miso-connects-social-tv-to-directv/〕 users that allowed viewers to receive extra content as they watched, synchronized to their progress through the show. The technology connected the iOS device to the set-top box. The first supported show was Showtime's Dexter. Shortly after, the feature was extended to AT&T Uverse subscribers.〔http://blog.gomiso.com/2011/10/17/miso-now-connects-to-att-u-verse/〕 In December 2011, Miso announced a Series B investing round of $4 million led by Khosla Ventures, along with previous investors Google Ventures and Hearst Interactive Media.〔http://www.finsmes.com/2011/12/miso-raises-4m-funding.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+finsmes%2FcNHu+%28FinSMEs%29〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miso TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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