This one is a comemnt of mine based on Raimo (thanks for the post)'s comment on my previous "Multimedia in a connected" world blog where Raimo spoke out loud that how the treaditional TV is changing, and how the family can stick together in this "personal buddylist" world.

The TV has had a role in bringing information to the family. I'd say the TV is one of the most anti-social machines in the past years, invented to "not to talk but watch". Here in Finland, we are focrd to upgrade to Digital by August this year, which hopefully will bring more interactive services to the TV so we can, instead of sitting and consuming the infi, start sharing and creating the content! No more quiteness in the licing room, please!

I agree with you that there are a lot of personal buddy lists out there, as well as a lot of YouTube (ie the home-made TV of the 21st centure). However, I strongly believe that these will intertwine more and more, meaning you will have your buddylists conncted to the people you share content with, and creating a "network" of content sharing friends. The only way to organise this is to organise in Groups, which means the contact list won't be personal one-to-one contacts, but more social.

Second, the TV was a Physical place where you consumed information. Now you have mobile TV but I think Mobile TV alone is not enough (see my latest blog). Now that you have interactive TV and you sart to share Presence, content etc with our friends using the TV, this "online life" continues while you are on the go. This means you need to have access to this anytime, anyplace (yak, another buzzword), so access to this from a mobile and any other connected device becomes critical.

I love convergence :-)