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@cheong:I didn't have time to play, but I love me some Diablo...is it any good?

If you have budget to get a prototype going, you should check out www.elance.com and build a project proposal and you should get some bids.

It's so awesome!

I'd want something a little less painful than a paintball gun shooting me, primarily since I suck at FPS games

Locking thread given that this has deeply ratholed

@CKurt: Just so we're on the same page, what are the user centric portions that you're referring to?

@CKurt: Taking a step back, we've had a lot of things come down the pipeline for Channel 9 and some had to happen sooner versus later, like the Events section and Coding4Fun integration. That isn't bad and overall it's great that instead of having to go to 10 different sites for 10 different event content, you have one place for Microsoft events.

In terms of other features that I think everyone agrees on:

• Email notifications -  for comments on a video or forum thread. Not only will this help conversation, this should also help
• Video Queue - There's a couple of ways you could make this work - Make it a private queue, add the option for making your queue public, add a way to make a "list of videos", more like Amazon or Twitter lists where someone could make wholly custom lists.
• Improve C9 on devices - This would be for phone apps, iPad, Xbox, and TV

Another one we've discussed that I think would be useful would be "content suggestions", much like Amazon or Netflix, this would be a people who like This Week on Channel 9 also liked reading a Kinect programming tutorial. As a Netflix subscriber, I discover a lot of good content based on my ratings for previous content. Just recently the series Firefly was rated 4.9/5 for me based on previous ratings and it was right

As always, your feedback is welcome and we should clean up the way we take feedback.

You guys rock, thanks! I've had too much stuff on my plate and I've had to work the last couple of weekends, including this last one

But the good news is that Brian Keller finally got safely deported home so I'm looking forward to our show tomorrow

Thanks everyone, good feedback, keep it coming!

Hey folks,

I'd love to get your opinions on this, but every now-and-then some teams will come to us with something they want to promote, either as an ad or promotion. We turn down the vast majority of them with the exception of events since the ones we promote at least have free live streams and it's deep technical content.

These are categories of ads/promotions we get requests for.

• Promotions: Windows Azure platform 30-day pass. No credit card required and enough capacity (3 instances, 2dbs etc) to go deep on Azure, Office 2010 for students is now just $49.99
  Products: Download IE9
• Tools: Download Web Matrix/Visual Studio Express
• API: Try the Bing API for free, now with unlimited commercial use
• Technology: Try the Silverlight Toolkit to easily beautify your Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 apps
• Coding4Fun: Use the MJPEG Library to control your IP Web cams using Silverlight or Windows Phone 7

Thanks in advance for any feedback

@blowdart: Interesting, I have a Sony VAIO Z and it's my first Sony laptop. Absolutely love it, it's everything that I want in a laptop - light, fast, SSD, good battery life, built-in DVD drive and SSD drive.

I haven't really had problems with it, although my HDMI output may not be currently functioning