I often talk about ‘digital lifestyle aggregation’ and my vision of Portals 2.0.

Now I’d like to respond to a post Fred Wilson has up today - where he credits Jeff Pulver’s for the term social media living room.

I spend a lot of time with customers - working through their dreams and visions of how they want to use technology - to ‘bring social to software‘. So today right before I read Fred’s post - I had just spent an hour with some potential customers, talking over their unique blending of ‘meatspace and cyberspace’ - which I told them was what MeetUp got so right.

I believe that there are more Googles and Microsofts out there which will get this balance between cyberspace and meatspace - and provide a compelling set of services and experiences which will bring the advanced technology that us geeks grapple with everyday, into the hands of normal humans - around the world.

To do that - mobile, automative and the living room have to play key parts in this solution.

Windows Home Media now has 60M systems out there and they’re about to launch Extenders - which will put wifi and Internet jacks into TV sets, CD/DVD players and a whole host of home appliances and components. Many people have wondered why Apple has not done more with their TV platform - but quite frankly the Microsoft platform, with XBoxes attached to it - scatterred around my home - is fine for me.

So what is my social media liviving room?

An extension of my digital lifestyle.

My family will be friends with other families, we’ll throw birthday parties together, go on trips, attend events and celebrate together - and most importantly - I’ll be able to extend this family oriented approach around the world - to wherever my ‘peeps’ are.

When you combine your meatspace existence with the potential of on-line media, communication and ecommerce - well there you have it - your social media living room!

This soup-to-nuts approach which starts and ends in the living room, bathroom, kitchen, car and my handheld device is the cornerstone of digital lifestyle aggregation. Without that - and we ain’t there yet.

So why are we so adamant on having our own source code and being able to white label it? Cause we’re going for embedded systems.

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