Yahoo Usability Nightmare or Racism?
Today I’m very confused as to whether Gmail is worse than Yahoo! Mail, or vice versa. First my Gmail account gets locked down for no apparent reason(tm) (in Google’s terminology, it’s called “unusual behavior” and seems to be an ill defined stumbling rock for more than a few users), and now I cannot even register an account with Yahoo.
Truth be said, I use Google Chrome, which doesn’t seem to be such a good choice for Yahoo!, but that’s what I use anyway.
Now, I did say it was a “nightmare”. Well, it’s not really a nightmare, but it’s a thoroughly disabling experience. It’s one of those points where a user fails to do what he wants, and fails miserably feeling stupid and miserable. Of course, ‘feeling miserable’ part is the user’s own psychological baggage, but if I know anything about marketing, Yahoo! shouldn’t want users to feel that way, even if it meant offering free counseling. :)
Google: Kosovo is not Part of Serbia
According to Google, Kosovo is obviously no longer part of Serbia. For those of you who don’t know, Kosovo “is a disputed territory in the Balkans. The partially-recognised Republic of Kosovo (Albanian: Republika e Kosovës; Serbian: Република Косово, Republika Kosovo), a self-declared independent state, has de facto control over most of the territory, with the exception of some Serb areas. Serbia does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and considers it a United Nations-governed entity within its sovereign territory, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian: Аутономна Покрајина Косово и Метохија, Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo i Metohija), according to the 2006 Constitution of Serbia.” (from the Wikipedia article on Kosovo).
So let me put this into a perspective.
Mission ePossible: Community Cooperation in Government
Although the annoucement has still not been translated to English, Serbian ministry of telecommunication and informational society has nevertheless published the news about Mission ePossible, a project to collect and publish opinions of progressive community members. As far as I am aware, this is the first step towards integrating the community into government (it’s still nowhere near as serious as it sounds, but I’m trying to be positive about it).
