This could serve various purposes:

• running [Home Automation] apps: security, remote control of air conditioning, etc. (all stuff that nobody seems to want so far)

• hub of entertainment systems (web-based control of stereo sending tunes to speakers in other room) (Media Center, TiVo)

• Proxy Server: annotations, filtering, etc.

• File Sharing of [Personal Media] (family photos, etc.)

  • something to plug the local hardware (Digital Camera) into

  • local BackUp of data (binary media objects and Meta Data?) that's mostly on a Hosted Server

Micro Soft is partnering with Samsung to build these in the future.

[Rearden Steel], founded by WebTV inventor [Steve Perlman], is also in this business.

Is a normal consumer going to want to run anything web-by on this (as a Full Peer)? Like a Web Server for their WebLog? I can't imagine wanting to worry about data BackUp, DOS attacks on their stereo, etc.

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