fuzz - use dyndns, or a router that offers a dynamic dns forwarding service (I'm using the dlink 655 at the moment and it works great)

once it's set up, your router will update your ip to the site when comcast changes it, so all you ever have to know is: thefuzz53.dyndns.org:4337 (or whatever port you have pointing to webguide)

yup. Digsby for the win.

Astra has been in private beta since 11/2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillian_(instant_messenger)

Not to be critical towards sony's pr team, but that has to mathematically be the worst place of a tv I've ever seen. Tons of light, no curtains, and a couch with it's back to the tv - made out of bricks (in case you get any fancy ideas about turning it around to enjoy your new bravia).

yeah, I mostly tongue-in-cheek, but I think closed captioning, and allowing the user at the point of upload to further edit their video and provide interactive annotations is a novel concept... but if the patent office was on its game all of that "prior art" like CC and hyperlinks, would probably raise eyebrows.

That said, with the number of patents granted to the iphone (I think it was over 200?) the USPTO hasn't exactly been stringent with the requirements.

So basically, this is Google/Youtube crushing the dreams of Viddler.com, who had this idea first and is, either a) really sorry they didn't patent "a method for adding textual display to internet videos" or, b) calling their lawyers.

I don't know if that's what to be let down over, the uber-everything plan, actually got a little sweeter from your initial report (down by 10.00). It's actually a reasonable plan for pdaphones (if those are included in this).

I'll third this. I think that makes this a useless survey.

you guys (-xpsypiex) are a bunch of negative nancy's, this is some very cool development work, the best part being the experimental radio support which lets you stream new music to your phone based on artist selection.

In other words, this isn't just a scrobbler, but potentially the kind of app that could take on things like the slacker portable device. with a 3G connection (and a carrier that won't get easily ticked off at all of the bandwidth you're using) this could well become a killer app.

So this is like the intellitouch xlink, only you have to use panasonic's phones instead of any phone you want? (to the above poster, the xlink supports 3 separate bt connections)

So far, blows spb pocket shell out of the water imo. If you have a windows mobile pro device, you simply have to try it. It's a unique interface, satisfyingly finger-friendly, and very snappy on my 6700 running wm6.