Another ingredient to mention here is flXHR; this is a more-or-less drop in replacement for Javascript/browser XML HTTP Request, but which routes things via a tiny Flash app. Flash has different cross-domain constraints than Javascript (a permissioning file can be used). Strophe.js comes with flXHR support built in, however I can’t say I’ve gotten it working yet (or found much documentation).

Talking of strophe.js documentation, I do recommend folk take a look at Jack Moffit’s http://professionalxmpp.com/ (there’s a free sampler chapter online there too, “Chapter 14: Writing Strophe Plugins”).

Do you know about Nick Diakopoulos’ Videolyzer project?
http://www.nickdiakopoulos.com/?page_id=68
It’s the best video argumentation I’ve seen and it might fit your needs. Decentralizing it is the main challenge for web-scale video argumentation.

Karl – the settings have now been changed in WordPress and http://blog.notu.be/feed/ now carries full posts.

Vicky

1)’Tilt and shakes’ as well as voice commands are nice but there are some inherent costs within (the phone is not normally used as a remote so there is an extra learning curve for the user)

2)Could you enable the “full content” RSS feed, please?
Partial feeds tend to get overlooked.

Karl

- they’ve used resistive touch screens, which aren’t nearly sensitive enough. Perhaps the iphone’s capacitative screen will aid this issue

- in order to be usable, the button sizes have to be far larger than on a physical remote. This leads to real-estate issues.

- and as you mention, the lack of haptic feedback make them impossible to use without looking at the screen constantly. I imagine this would be worse on a non-dedicated device (like the iphone) where it would be all too easy to quit the remote app.

And as you mention in your other point, web-enhanced TV certainly doesn’t have to mean web on a TV screen. In the bad old days of OpenTV/Liberate apps (hmm – are we still there?) it was briefly popular in the US to create somewhat synchronised websites that extended a programme-brand and offered in-programme interactivity (such as answering quiz questions) in a way that overcame the backchannel limitations of the time. Reference point here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Screen_Solutions

Personally I’d love to see some kind of synchronised smart programme extension on my iphone – real-time tweets, IMDB trivia, Test The Nation style interactivity – far more than I’d want to use the phone to control the TV itself.

no telly, so how will my choices be included?

and if you haven’t posted to bbc backstage, get on it….