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Yahoo has quietly announced Yahoo Meme microblogging service in English after its soft launch in Spanish and Portuguese. Similar to few microblogging services like Tumblr, Twitter, Pownce and others, Meme is currently in an invite-only mode. Once the account is created after receiving invitation, users get a blank blog for micro-sharing text, images, music, videos or mash up of all these things.


 


Registration is simple and gives a Meme URL based on Username like http://meme.yahoo.com/Username. That s just like Twitter and Facebook offers Username URLs.


 


Meme s setting panel has minimal options like Meme title, 100 character Description, avatar/photo and notifications. Along with that, Meme also offers page layout customization with Themes. On the Meme page, users can post text, photos, videos and all together for sharing with other users. Just like Twitter and Tumblr users do, Meme users can search for other users using the Find option on the top of the page and Follow them to receive their Meme updates.



 
Meme users can have threaded conversations in the Comment option under every meme post. Also, users can repost the Memes of other users just like Tumblr offers Reblog . At this stage, the Meme service looks very basic and lacks bunch of other features that other competing services into micro-sharing offer. Just like Twitter Trends, Meme has a Popular option that shows Memes posted by users recently.


 


Below are few screenshots of Yahoo! Meme service from Paul Papadimitriou that gives a sneak preview of the Meme interface.


 



 



 

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nara
,Coimbatore, on Sep 04, 2009 06:36 PM
I was looking for one from yahoo, my favourite ... Meme
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Aswani
,Pune, on Sep 02, 2009 05:42 PM
I think it is a very good move from yahoo. I will surely use it. Thanks for the info.
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Cervantes
,California, on Sep 02, 2009 02:46 PM
Everything that Yahoo! do SUCKS! as their searcher. I'm not interested in Yahoo! with Twitter is enough. Yahoo SUCKS!
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Anonymous
,Does it MAtter, on Sep 02, 2009 03:15 PM
Well I don't agree.I still prefer yahoo mail over gmail.Gmail gets a lot of spam msgs where as yahoo filters all my mails(i have a daily subscription of 30 mails) to their respective folders neatly.Agreed that gmail interface is fast but i luv folders compared to gmail "labels" @ topic: i guess twitter is enough but will give meme a try.
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Sushant
,Deoghar, on Sep 02, 2009 01:36 PM
I am using MEME from a couple of days. It is an easy to use micro blog. Sharing and commenting is at its best. Though we need some more options which should be available by official launch.
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