TV using social networking features. That's it. And a game.

Problem 1.

This is hardly new, and I'm afraid it's too late. The problem is that TV is already fun and social. So adding the game element is kind of lazy. To me, it says, "We're not really sure that TV is social enough so we're going to make it fun with virtual goods."

Of course, the gaming feature might work out in the end. But it seems like every startup is looking at Foursquare and Zynga and figures that model should work for them too. For those companies like Foursquare, Gowalla and Zynga it makes sense. Lord knows people don't need a game element to get excited about LOST.

Problem 2.

If Facebook decides to do something like this, they can jump start their insanely large user-base because (at the moment) they have loyalty. Google just launched Google TV and you KNOW they're going to make some sharing features.

My guess is that that TV and social networking is going to be big thing, but I don't think Comcast will lead that revolution.

(live notes and quotes)

Opening remarks from Mike Arrington.

John Doerr and Charlie Rose.

Doerr talked about 3 waves. First wave was personal computer, second wave was the internet and World Wide Web and the third wave.

The third wave is what we're about to go into right now -- it's "reinventing the web," said Doerr.

"This is a new paradigm," Doerr said holding his iPad up. "Their immersive and magical experiences."

"This year those ventures are going to do one hundred million dollars in revenue," Doerr said about KPCB investments.

Doerr said that the real innovation from iPad needs to come from the entrepreneurs and application developers.

"Mark Pincus and his team have figured out how to monetize these social networks," Doerr

"The raised 3.6 million for Haiti on 

"At any given day, 30 million people are playing Farmville," Doerr said. "They raised 3.6 million for Haiti on that social platform."

Doerr said he thinks we've watched the Super Bowl with our TV and laptop together for the last time.

"We have amazing technology in grocery stores but our doctors are still using paper records," Doerr said.