Microsoft is currently hosting a contest where people can submit an idea for a Windows Phone 7 application. The winning app will be made into a FREE download on Windows Marketplace when the new phone OS launches this fall. And as much as I would love to win this contest...a user by the name of Dan12R beat me to the punch with the idea for some Windows Media Center integration and love.

The winners will be selected from among the top vote-getting entries, so I figured if everyone here ("Green Buttoners"? "Buttoneers"? What are we called, anyway?) dropped by and gave this app a vote, it might shed a little attention on the fact that WMC desperately needs mobile integration. You can follow the link here or below to vote.

http://www.windowsphone7.com/ineedthisapp?pbb_qsi=43518057&=TWITTERPOST_PPIMEMAIL

You are showing way to much enthusiasm for this site!!! What kind of app can someone put hours of work into just to have it dissected and criticized on The Button? Please, someone put their time and energy into an app so we can get 100 posts about what it doesn't do. I couldn't resist!!!!!!! Q.

BTW...it's common knowledge that companie much larger than Ceton are having problems with unique electronics parts coming out of Asia!! I am fired up!! Bring it on tech world!!

Sorry about hijacking your post. Just aching for some sanity and reasoning in the tech world!

I don't really know what you are talking about ChiWax, but everybody vote for this app. It would send a nice message to microsoft about the importance of media center if a media center app was most desirable in their contest.

http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/Blogs/BlogView.aspx?bid=39939&scid=538&

 

I agree- we need this app to win. I've already contacted a number of people in the media center blogosphere to get the word out. Look at the current first place option- it's some guy who wants party reminders integrated into his phone. Something that probably ANYONE could create for this phone with a bit of programming skills. What a waste of a skilled Microsoft employee's time that would be! And he sent an email out to his entire address book so everyone would vote for him. Suggestion: put a wall post on all your facebook pages and ask your friends to just click and vote. Don't give them a long-winded explanation, just tell them it will be enormously helpful if they clicked and voted, taking up all of 5 seconds.

 Remote potato already does this, except for video and music streaming, it only does TV.  For videos and music I just use orb, its free and works great.

I agree it should be included in media center, but the functionality is available already through 3rd party.

Remote Potato isn't a Windows Phone 7 native APP, and it requires multiple plugins to run on the WMC side.

Some of the ideas behind the app are a little pie-in-the-sky (I don't see live streaming over 3G as happening), but if there were a Zune-BLOCKED EXPRESSION sync for TV shows, that'd be nice. Hell, if you could use Zune in Windows Media Center, that'd be something...

Hey, this app is neck-and-neck with that stupid party app for first place, so keep it up...um...Buttoneers. You can vote once a day, too, so keep going back.

Also, why is the word "s t y l e" a BLOCKED EXPRESSION?

Whether or not you think you'll end up with a Windows Phone 7, if you like Media Center - and that's why you are here, isn't it? - then please help support this app idea.

However, votes alone aren't necessarily going to cut it. The rules for the contest are quite involved and the #1 app at the close of the contest isn't necessarily the winner, but it's position will be a factor. Another important factor is viral marketing. The more links that exist and are clicked on from Facebook, Twitter, blogs, other web sites, etc back to the app idea in the contest improve the viral rating. This will be taken into consideration when Microsoft choose which app to create.

So if you have a Facebook account, Twitter account, blog or some other web site, please go to the Brickfish web site and link back to the app from there:

http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/Blogs/BlogView.aspx?bid=39939&scid=538&

Thanks!

 

RandomRage

Remote Potato isn't a Windows Phone 7 native APP, and it requires multiple plugins to run on the WMC side.

Some of the ideas behind the app are a little pie-in-the-sky (I don't see live streaming over 3G as happening), but if there were a Zune-BLOCKED EXPRESSION sync for TV shows, that'd be nice. Hell, if you could use Zune in Windows Media Center, that'd be something...

 

Hi!

If I understand remote potato, it is not using the web interface of windows home server, and I find that rather useless. The personal windows home server domain and website should be the service endpoint for these kind of services, until mesh, myspace, azure etc etc matures. I dont want to expose my HTPC to the internet for this, but rather the server I have, which is protected and secured behind a firewall.

But then again, maybe the remote potato stuff has developed since I first checked it out? PLease enlighten me, Im dying for some useful WHS +Win7MC plugins.

And of course when Phone 7 is released I want full control over my WHS app (which I guess MS will release since the web inteface for Vail is already in Silverlight.

 

/HEnrik

The idea for this application is now in first position.

Remember that you can vote once a day so please keep voting and lets get this app written.

Meanwhile I will check out Remote Potato as it could be the replacement for Web Guide that we've all been waiting for ;-)

Wow, the WMC App is bursting ahead of the competition! Every day the gap grows larger. Just goes to show what a dedicated community we have! Even though the winner ends up being decided by a Microsoft panel from the top 150 ideas, it's hard to ignore such a high score! So keep voting! Let's get this app to double the score of the 2nd Place choice!

Yeah, we are kicking the crap outta that dumb party app. Kudos Buttoneers! (I'm going to keep saying it until it sticks or someone comes up with something better)

Hopefully this will at least let Microsoft know that there is a passionate community of Microsoft product fans that border on Apple levels of enthusiasm, and maybe the redheaded stepchild that is the eHome team will get a little more attention.

KEEP VOTING! There are other apps that are starting to build up steam- we need to keep pushing up the count for the Media Extender App!