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Windows Live
Had a brief play with Windows Live this morning. I’d previously signed up and had a look sometime last year, and it seems to have changed little. In particular, the lengthy non-human-readable URLs are unappealing, and the way it slowly redirects through several different authentication URLs on some links is ridiculous. Makes LiveJournal look like a beacon of simplicity and elegance in comparison!
http://cid-edacb335ffe08517.profile.live.com/
I added some external services (LiveJournal, Facebook, last.fm), and two of them required multiple attempts before succeeding. It all seemed a bit flaky.
The personal profiles have educational information as an option, with a list of universities from around the world, but only appears to let one select a single university. Obviously nobody at Microsoft has multiple degrees.
And then I gave up because it got into a loop of redirections between various authentication pages, before coming up with an internal error. Repeatedly.
Maybe it all works better in IE.
http://cid-edacb335ffe08517.profile.live.com/
I added some external services (LiveJournal, Facebook, last.fm), and two of them required multiple attempts before succeeding. It all seemed a bit flaky.
The personal profiles have educational information as an option, with a list of universities from around the world, but only appears to let one select a single university. Obviously nobody at Microsoft has multiple degrees.
And then I gave up because it got into a loop of redirections between various authentication pages, before coming up with an internal error. Repeatedly.
Maybe it all works better in IE.