The team at Microsoft, with whom I worked last summer, just published a paper on the work we did, and were kind enough to include me as a co-author. The full citation is:

Gemmell, Jim, Lueder, Roger, Blumenstock, Joshua, Solomon, Evan and Bell, Gordon. Telephone, Television and Radio in the Home of the Future Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA) 2003, August 13-15, 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Abstract

The home of the future will have an all-digital network for all media, backed by multi-terabyte storage. Users will be able keep an entire lifetime of personal media, and vast collections of media that may be of interest for future viewing, reading, or listening. MyLifeBits is a personal store for a digital life, designed to support efficient organization, search, browsing, annotation, and viewing. This paper describes the telephone, television, and radio components of the MyLifeBits system.

You can download the paper here: Word (2.5MB)  PDF (1.7MB)