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Listed below are comments made by rajesh_j between Wednesday, 22nd July 2009 and Thursday, 29th October 2009.

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Welcome to BBC iD 5:30pm on 29 Oct 2009 There do seem to a be a few teething problems with migration, but after changing my email address, re-confirming it and refreshing this screen, I can finally post a comment.

What was the thought process behind creating a brand-new single sign-on system instead of allowing the ability to use openID / oAuth technologies to login and comment?

While I accept there are house rules to be obeyed, and the BBC would like some sort of record of who's commenting, there are surely ways to do this. BBC iD could have permitted users to link up with their existing preferred authentication protocols (if any - including Facebook Connect) and let comments be shared across the Internet; widening debate and transparency.
A week with Windows 2:09pm on 21 Oct 2009 Windows 7 - meh.
The Sidekick Cloud Disaster 10:34am on 13 Oct 2009 This is exactly why rolling out brand names like Google Heath, Microsoft Doctor or whatever is NOT a universal answer to solving IT in our own NHS.
Say hello, Wave... goodbye? 12:14pm on 09 Oct 2009 Wave: big meh.
Trek power comes to Intel 5:18pm on 07 Oct 2009 Why was my witty comment about Captain Clarke deleted? :-(
A big match for Broadband Britain 3:18pm on 07 Oct 2009 Yeah cause people are really going to gather round a tiny screen, spilling their booze all over expensive equipment to watch this match at £4.99 a pop.

Best bet is for (us) geeks to help their pubs to screen it. Web video demographic #fail.
Trek power comes to Intel 2:10pm on 25 Sep 2009 Captain Clark - wasn't he the one with big ears and head of a totalitarian, surveillance-obsessed state?
All eyes on Spotify 11:33am on 07 Sep 2009 £9.99 a month is too high a price for those used to using Spotify at home, for free.

A supplementary charge of maybe £2-3 per month, purely for mobile Spotify might have worked better. This would have still required adverts.

The other thing about mobile Spotify is that the app is going to have to run in on your iPhone all the time, chewing up battery while it downloads data. There are still benefits to downloading music, legally or otherwise, onto your iPhone, such as not requiring a data connection and being able to use other apps (e.g. games) while listening to music.

That's why, in my opinion, the Spotify app is still not a like-for-like replacement for the standard iPod feature of an iPhone. And I think Apple know that already, which is why they approved it (as they did last.fm).
Experiments with location-based content: BBC Open Air 1:25pm on 26 Aug 2009 Very cool - interested that you support Gears which has a lot of potential devices including desktops. It would be great if at some stage you could also support the location features in iPhone :-)
Can HTC's Hero be a smartphone winner? 2:30pm on 22 Jul 2009 Interesting that Orange have stuck with HTC Hero and avoided 'T-mobile Daft' http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/htc-hero-in-graphite

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