Although Yahoo has not had any luck with its efforts to come up with various “social” products and services, it won’t stop until it succeeds in this endeavor. Not so long ago, it has to shut down Yahoo Mash and then most recently, its Indian social network SpotM. Even Yahoo 360 continues to suffer from low usage.
So for Yahoo’s latest attempt, it is taking the route successfully taken by Twitter – microblogging. A couple of days ago, it has launched two language versions of Yahoo Meme – Yahoo Meme in Spanish and Yahoo Meme Portugese.
While Yahoo is still preparing these two sites, it has also launched an English version as well. The site is currently in alpha version but you can already see how the service looks like and how “posts” will appear.
It looks a lot like Tumblr or Twitter with pictures included in the post. Posts are either text, images, videos, music or a combination of these contents. You can also include a 100-character description as well as an avatar. There is also a commenting feature for each of the posts. Other people’s posts can also be reposted on one’s post, not like Twitter’s “Retweet” feature. You can also see immediately how many people have reposted a particular post. Posts are searchable too, very much like Twitter’s search feature.
No words yet on how long Yahoo Meme will stay in alpha version or when it will be open for beta testers. But you can leave your email address and join me in hoping that Yahoo gives us access to the beta version of Yahoo Meme.
Yahoo will not know that which product will give them the success. They need to release the beta version after getting the feedback from the people then only they need to proceed the original version.
Real time search engines will be the next level of success. so we can say that this is good move to stay in the competitive search market.
Honestly, WHO CARES… Yahoo! sucks it all! I have years without using that searcher. They just copied the twitter idea.. I doesn’t deserve any mention..
“Cervantes” you are right, I don’t agree with knock offs, when it comes to ideas for websites and services.. One thing Yahoo may be able to do is to entice some of their search users to use the service and intergrating the functions into their search results which could be something different and interesting to see. Simply replicating a web service and rebadgeing it though… ???? I have my doubts about the idea.. We will see..
As the idea related to websites and services., my counselor agrees to beat and shut. One thing Yahoo can make, lure some of them into search service of using and intergrating which piece function enter may different and interesting thing that see they search The users of the result are.