The fine folks over at Miso have announced a developer competition and are extending a warm invitation to the Boxee family to compete.  Miso serves up a piping hot social TV platform for checking into your favorite shows, earning points and badges while discovering what fun stuff your friends are watching.  We share a lot of users in common and now they’re rolling out the red carpet to our development crew to kick out some tight social TV apps.

Here’s the skinny:

Deadline: 10 May 2011, noon Pacific Daylight Time.

Prize: A brand spanking new iPad 2, ready for our upcoming Boxee iOS app.

Rules: Must leverage the Miso API to do something awesome.

What kind of awesome can be built with Miso and Boxee?  Oh how about some of these tasty treats:

• Auto check-ins on Miso when you watch shows on Boxee
• Change show on Boxee based upon what your friends watch in Miso
• Notification when a new episode of a show you follow on Miso is available on Boxee
• Check out your friends’ favorite shows
• Leave notes on shows for your friends to see
• A Boxee app hinting on how what would be best to watch to earn Miso badges
• Create an auto-running playlist Boxee app based on Miso trends

The ideas just fly off the fingers.  More details are available at the Miso blog including their sign-up form.

As usual, I’m here to make sure you win.  Hit me up on IRC at FreeNode at #boxee, on Twitter at @boxee_api and via email at rob [at] boxee [dot] tv if you run into any snags.

Go get ‘em!