I'm crossing my fingers that VideoPress will eventually expand into more innovative uses of video - after all these years, no company has offered a simple way for site visitors to leave video comments without first having to jump through the hoop of registering or logging in.

I realise that I am in a minority in thinking that video comments are a viable and, in specific use cases, a valuable thing - most people presume that the whole concept is dead in the water because Seesmic and Viddler made such a mess of it, but one day some company will realise that if you lower the barrier to entry sufficiently, and present people with one simple big red record button, the concept will take hold and establish itself as a useful ancillary to text comments.

I truly hope that Automattic will be that company.

I also agree with Carl and Jeff on HTML5 support - I am astonished at how much I find myself using my iPad, it seems to be a much faster way to work through my RSS feeds and check out new sites, I'm pretty sure that the number of people using these things will rocket once folks get the chance to sit down and try their friends' or family members' iPads.

I also gather that the new iPhone screen is also excellent for watching video, so, I hope VideoPress will get ahead of the curve and make sure that their users aren't disappointing a significant percentage of their visitors.