This is the first media center I’ve seen that comes close to my dream media center. What I want is something that integrates with a Facebook app, grabbing all my friends and their locations. It would tag & scrobble all my motion media consumption and actively compare it to that of my friends, ideally integrating with my TIVO or cable-card as well. Then, before I click on the next episode of The Wire or whathaveyou, I see a list of friends that are watching the wire, sorted by proximity: both physical location and location in the series. Thus I avoid watching the new episode of “Heroes” without the rest of my roommates, as long as they are caught up with me. The program would also let me know that if I wait for Andrew to finish watching 2 more episodes of Spectacular Spider-man, we can watch the next one together. If multiple people are on the couch, they can sign in and the media center would have an option for only showing things we all have yet to see.
I want maximize my social media consumption: inviting friends over to watch media I would’ve otherwise consumed alone, invoking discussions with remote friends about media we’ve both recently consumed, etc. Also it’s easy to imagine making a great recommendation engine once all that data is gathered.
