A strange thing happened to me today…I became Taiwanese.
Well, not really, but Yahoo seems to think so. The big news out of Yahoo today was that they finally launched their new profile pages. I clicked over to profiles.yahoo.com to set mine up. Everything started just fine. It asked me a few questions like my name and birthday, but when I hit submit, everything went haywire…it routed me over to Yahoo! Taiwan. And I can’t figure out how to get back to English. The domain is correct and there’s no language code in the URL.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Yahoo! Taiwan. Yahoo! pretty much IS the internet in Taiwan. Yahoo! Kimo is the dominant player over there. I even spent a good bit of time over there when I worked for Yahoo and have a few good friends from Yahoo Taiwan I still keep in touch with (Hi, Kurt and Joann!). But I don’t speak a word of Chinese. Anyone else seeing the same problem?
5 responses so far ↓
1 @ThomasHan // Oct 16, 2008 at 3:59 pm
hee hee, that’s not a bad thing to become Taiwanese. I knew we have something in common
2 Robyn Tippins // Oct 17, 2008 at 4:42 pm
yes, it’s a known issue. ping me with your yid and I’ll see what I can do to help
3 Ryan Kuder // Oct 17, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Thanks, Robyn. I had two Yahoos contact me actually and it’s fixed now. Glad to be back in the good old U.S. of A.
4 Joann // Oct 18, 2008 at 5:56 am
Well! Welcome to Taiwan Group!! I will get the member team to take a look for you:-)
5 Jerry // Oct 19, 2008 at 10:29 am
Welcome to be a Taiwanese! I was surprised to see it’s all in Traditional Chinese when I logged in. Guess it’s a pleasant mistake to me.
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