{"id":965,"date":"2006-10-16T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/amazons-askville-beta-uscanada-only\/"},"modified":"2006-10-16T19:10:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T18:10:53","slug":"amazons-askville-beta-uscanada-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/amazons-askville-beta-uscanada-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazons Askville Beta US\/Canada Only!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I just got invited by <a href=\"http:\/\/techstartups.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/askville.html\">techstartups<\/a> to Amazons Askville Beta to see the comparison of it between Windows Live QnA, Yahoo Answers and other Question and Answers sites and well I&#8217;m quite disappointed to see that in order to try out the service I need to enter my Mobile Phone number to receive a text with a conformation code!<\/p>\n<p>Ok I thought I&#8217;ll do that even though I would rather have an email sent to me which is more convenient for, and after all not everybody has mobile phones even in today&#8217;s technology world, though I do so I was ok with it in a way!<\/p>\n<p>But then I was yet again disappointed when I noticed that it&#8217;s only available to the US and Canada, damn how annoying is that, at least with the Windows Live Betas I could set my profile to US and test them out, here I can&#8217;t even do that!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve sent Amazons Askville Team feedback on this so hopefuly they will listen, if not well all I can say is that I tried my best!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/10\/logo-huge.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/10\/tagline-home.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I just got invited by techstartups to Amazons Askville Beta to see the comparison of it between Windows Live QnA, Yahoo Answers and other Question and Answers sites and well I&#8217;m quite disappointed to see that in order to try out the service I need to enter my Mobile Phone number to receive a text with a conformation code!<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/amazons-askville-beta-uscanada-only\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazons Askville Beta US\/Canada Only!&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}