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Playphone - Smartphone social gaming network

The social gaming network startup, Playphone has created a free app that runs on  different platforms. With the new app, players can play multiplayer games using devices with different OS.

The app runs on iOS, Android, HTML5, windows phone 7 and Flash.

The new mobile social gaming platform allows players to chat, invite friends, buy, gift and see what games their friends are playing. It has more than 3 million users worldwide.

From Playphone platform, players can access itunes and Android store.

 

The company was founded 2003 and is based in San Jose, CA and offers downloadable mobile entertainment content and games. The company has presence in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Miso - Changing the way people watch TV

One year old social TV startup Miso (founded March 2010) believes that there is a better way to watch TV and that is on a second screen using Miso. Miso is on iphon, ipad, Android and web.

The Company funded $4 million recently and currently has 100K users.

Users can log in and start watching TV shows, movies and other TV contents available on Miso’s library.

Users can comment on the shows, reply, exchange ideas about the content, share articles and follow each other to see what friends are watching on real time.

Everytime users add comments, check-in to watch a content or share, they earn points and can compete with their friends to see who has the most points and becomes the biggest fan.

Lately the company has been looking into synchronizing content from 1^st screen (TV) to 2^nd screen (mobile phone).
What happens is that the mobile device synchronizes with STB, allowing mobile device to know what are you watching and where are you on the show and you can use your mobile phone to share comments about the content you are watching or to read about the stars on the show. Here is a video about it:

 

There are plenty other social TV applications out there: GetGlue, Tunerfish and IntoNow to mention a few.