Rant: Microsoft And Yahoo Profiles (Video)

For a few years now, the way in which Yahoo! and Windows Live does public profiles is nothing short of ridiculous. There are way too many options, way too many things to turn off, and the real sad part is that most of you who read this didn’t know about all the crapola that comes with a profile from Y! or WLive. This is mainly due to the fact that both more or less bury the options.

I’m not saying not to use Y! or WLive because they are arguably the two most-used when it comes to email and instant messaging. What I am saying is that these two companies could have designed their profile interfaces a whole lot better.

These two are so bad it even makes Facebook look easy – and Facebook is horrible to begin with.

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John Hauxwell
I thought it was just me and I didn’t know what I was doing, but it IS complicated. Thanks
http://www.bytehead.org/blog/ Bryan Price
Yeah, I decided I was through getting spam from those damn private messages on Hotmail, and ended up changing about five different settings before I finally found the one that would shut it off. Not that I get that many, but they were starting to creep up more and more regularly.
http://techglobex.blogspot.com Tech Review
Every website is now getting engaged with Social Media. Yahoo and Microsoft profiles are also providing alots of features to get connected with Social Media websites like facebook, twitter etc. Which is really effective for users to get connected and keep updates