[BNM] Upcoming Registration

[Danny Hope]

On 5/2/07, Andy Budd <andy at clearleft.com> wrote:
>
> > There are some annoying things about the  migration, it's not been the
> > smoothest one they've done and it's not quite as slick as it used
> > to be
> > either. I'm sure these are just teething problems.
>
> I think the log-in migration has annoyed a lot of Flickr and Upcoming
> users, and suspect del.icio.us will be next. I guess we all knew this
> was coming when Yahoo bought these sites. I'm just amazed it's taken
> so long.
>
> One of the most annoying things was being forced to register for a
> Yahoo account, and ending up with andybudd72 instead of just
> andybudd. If you're keen to protect your online identity, it's
> probably worth registering your name on every major site and app,
> just on the off chance that you may use it at some stage.


The biggest annotyance for me in the Upcoming/Yahoo merge was the lack of
warning: they about it on the blog but didn't issue a warning email.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yandle/466142405/#comment72157600098977285

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Danny Hope

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