Access to Mybloglog placed behind Yahoo!wall
I suppose it was destined to happen eventually, as all Yahoo! acquisitions are eventually forced behind the Yahoo.com single signin.
I’ve gone years without needing a yahoo.com account (though, that hasn’t prevented Yahoo from allowing people to forge my email address to sign-up to their service) and I’m not about to request one now just to regain access to a single service I once found novel.
Upcoming was struck by the same fate and I’ve never returned since. It’s too bad Yahoo won’t configure and implement the “Yahoo!ID” as some sort of MetaID to be used at all Yahoo! properties and leave the application specific logins alone — they could, but they won’t.
I’ll be removing Mybloglog from the sidebar now.
September 29th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
A few years back I got a Yahoo ID (could do that back then without having to include email) because I had friends who only used Yahoo’s chat. I downloaded Yahoo’s IM service (at the time to Windows) and Yahoo placed various links into my browser then I was not able to remove. When Flickr became part of Yahoo they made everyone switch to their login. Luckily, I had an ID to use. Otherwise, I will have nothing to do with Yahoo. A few friends received invitations to join Yahoo’s Mash; they joined, they laughed, I have not heard anything since.
Sometime you need to register an ID just to leave a comment.