Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo has recently launched Meme a Twitter-wannabe service in Portugese, and then Spanish. Today, the web pioneer announced that it is preparing to launch an English-language version of its Yahoo Meme micro-blogging platform.
Yahoo had previously launched a Portuguese language micro-blogging product, Yahoo Meme, that drew similarities to Twitter and Tumblr. And now, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company has however ventured to devise their own Twitter challenger named Yahoo Meme. Yahoo Meme is essentially a micro-blogging platform for those who are bored with regular blogging.
The service is currently available in Spanish and English languages but requires an invite.
It seems that Yahoo definitely has some grand ambitions under its sleeve for Yahoo Meme, as it has secretly rolled out the micro-blogging service out first in Portuguese version earlier this year, and then in Spanish and now in English to appeal to the masses.
The left side bottom of the English-language home page offers a drop-down menu to select either of those versions. The service is outlined as being similar to Twitter with its short posts, the ability to repost messages from other users, and the ability to share photos and video.
Here is how Yahoo Meme works: you create an account and it starts you off with an empty blog that you can fill with text, images, videos, music or a mixture of those things. All you can add to your blog – apart from the content – is a title, a 100-character description and an avatar. You can also create a comment thread underneath the content you post, which was a feature that was missing when we reviewed Yahoo Meme previously.
Yahoo has been very quiet overall about Meme and what it has in store for the service. Nonetheless, Yahoo is now quite famous for launching new services just to shut down after a couple of months. Yahoo Meme is unexpected to be a big success for the company as it just replicates existing successful services and products. If you end up using it, be prepared for the day it is simply shut for not being profitable enough for the company.