We’ve written a lot about Yahoo Meme, Yahoo’s new microblogging platform that resembles Twitter. A few weeks Yahoo launched an API for Meme and also shed some light on where the social media site is being used; which seems to be mainly outside the U.S. According to Yahoo, Meme is gaining a following in Brazil, China, the Philippines, India and Turkey. Yahoo initially rolled out Meme in Portuguese, then Spanish and then English. Today, Yahoo is rolling out a native version of Meme in Bahasa Indonesia, the national language of Indonesia. The Republic of Indonesia, which comprises over 17,500 islands, is the fourth most populous country in the world.
With the translation, Meme is actually spelled as “Mim” on the site, but it appears to have much of the same functionality as the other versions of the site. Yahoo meme lets users post their own content (including text, photos, videos, links and more) and repost the content of others with one-click publishing, allows users to follow other Meme users (via one-way connections, no friend authorization is required) and comment on their posts. Meme’s content limits are higher than Twitter’s—the limit is 2,000 characters.
Coincidentally, Twitter also recently made an announcement concerning Indonesia, launching a partnership with Indonesian mobile carrier AXIS to provide Tweets via SMS. While Yahoo Meme may be growing internationally, Twitter is aggressively going after international markets as well. The site most recently launched a version in Spanish and plans to roll out versions in French, German and Italian soon. Hopefully Meme doesn’t suffer the same fate as Yahoo’s social network in India, SpotM, which didn’t even make it to its first birthday.
Thanks for the tip Rama.
very interesting chip, thank you
If yahoo won’t learn how to combine it’s assests, nothing will help the company. No button for meme in the main Yhaoo! page… no button in Flickr to send photos immediately to meme? Yahoo can go to Indonesia, Turkey (very popular over there, if I understand the posts) and anywhere else… you must give it the support and the push every where you can, or you gonna see it die!
Tzvika – spot on.
yeh exactly I don’t see it anywhere too
glad they coming to my language…
Senangnya…
I agree with Tzvika. If Yahoo can`t combine their product in to Kone simple creation. Just like twitter and facebook they gonna die at all. And NOTHING CAN`T HELP THEM. EVEN MICROSOFT. For Yahoo. Keep The fight till the end and inovate if you want to survive.
Hi Visiting Yahoo Meme again, I found that it now has a search box, interesting: Here is a query about TechCrunch with photos
http://meme.yah...echcrunch+photo
The mim link is now on the front page of Yahoo! Indonesia -fyi
http://id.yahoo.com/
thanks!
rama – u just beat us too it…
Haha! You know i did.
If you want your posts to go from twitter -> meme or meme -> twitter you can use:
http://twitter-meme.com/
(disclaimer, I built it)