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1.5 stars
"Evil Yahoo cuts corners where they think they can get away with it!"
Pros: Slick looking
Cons: Flawed interface lacks features, and bites users in hiney when least expected
Summary: Let's see, a MAJOR shortcoming of the blogging interface is the lack of spellcheck. In this age of the vast majority of people being spellcheck dependent, it's ridiculous not to have spellcheck available for blog compositions.
Another MAJOR boo-boo is that the seemingly convenient and handy means to post blog entries directly from Messenger will almost certainly bite you in the gluteus maximus because it requires you to be "logged in" to Yahoo 360 (it doesn't automatically use your Messenger account apparently). So, because it's impossible to tell if you are, or aren't, logged into Yahoo 360 in a way that Messenger will recognize you stand a good chance of writing up a blog entry and then loosing it to the void when you click "Post this Entry" and are directed to a "Please Log In" page. See, it doesn't seem to me that the Yahoo Messenger-Yahoo 360 interface should allow you to compose a blog entry if you're NOT logged in. This would seem like the idiot proof way to keep people from loosing blog entries. Since Yahoo Messengers interface doesn't operate as a browser one can't just use the "back button" to go back and reclaim an entry. Maybe it's just me but it seems that Yahoo goes out of their way to make it difficult for customers to contact their support/feedback departments, thereby revealing their inherent attitude of apathy toward their users/customers. The only way they'll overtake Google is if they start caring about their users as much as Google, and attempting to be as NON-evil as possible. Ultimately, Yahoo 360 is another great IDEA from Yahoo that comes off half-baked, and lacking in it's implementation. Sorry Yahoo (actually, I'm not, it's all your own fault anyway), but you get low marks from me again.
Here's an idea--rather than crapping out such a plethora of ideas and half-baking all of them, why don't you give us a few fully developed and well executed ideas?
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