The crackdown on profile names follows a much-heralded policy change made in February, which allowed users to customise their gender and suggested 50 terms people may want to use, including "intersex", "other" and "gender fluid".
Yes, they allowed users to customise their start pages, but so did the walled gardens of the early 1990s, online services such as AOL or CompuServe.Those closed services crumbled and gave rise, after the Netscape browser and its emulators made it possible, to the open and polyvalent web.
NetVibes is a web aggregator which allows users to customise their page using hundreds of widgets and feeds.
A new US app, Invisible Boyfriend, allows users to customise the looks, personality and interests of an imaginary male partner and pay $25£1616) for his virtual company.
This will allow users to customise their orders, and see the effect on the price - something eBay is not geared up for, he says.
The update, visible through the web version of Twitter, allows users to customise their profile pages with their favourite tweets, a larger profile photo and wide cover-image, mirroring the design update Facebook made to its profile pages in 2013.
It allows users to customise and extend Google's operating system and even exchange the online giant's mobile services for other offerings".With Android, every phone became the same.
Functionality cookies allow users to customise how a website looks for them: they can remember usernames, language preferences and regions, and can be used to provide more personal services like local weather reports and traffic news.
Epic has countered by pointing out that most handsets allow users to customise which sites to give access to, and the open market approach works on PC where there are various third-party stores available.
It's the same stripped back "pure" Android experience that Motorola made so effective with the original Moto G. Aside from a Moto app, which allows users to customise gestures such as a karate chop to turn on the torch or a quick couple of twists of the wrist to activate the camera, there's no bloat to speak of.
It also provides white label versions of its holiday and flight booking service to over 80 sites including BT Openworld, the Telegraph, Virgin.net and the Guardian and was the first UK website to launch a build-your-own package holiday service allowing users to customise flight and accommodation deals.
