Thanks Talas
Just found this
Yahoo recently
launched a Portuguese language micro-blogging product,
Yahoo Meme that drew similarities to Twitter and Tumblr. And on
second glance it seemed to be a mediocre competitor to Twitter, Tumblr and other micro-sharing services in terms of its offerings and features. And the blogosphere questioned why Yahoo launched the product in Portuguese only.
But now it appears that Yahoo has lofty ambitions for Yahoo Meme, as it has stealthily rolled the micro-blogging service out in Spanish to appeal to the masses. The Spanish language is currently the worldâs second
most popular language in the world in terms of native speakers (itâs fourth in terms of total speakers).
Hereâs 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 â apart from the content â 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.
Like Twitter and Tumblr, you can search other peopleâs public accounts and follow them, with updates from these users appearing in your stream. You can also âRepostâ anyoneâs entry, similar to the âReblogâ feature thatâs integrated into Tumblr. As weâve written before, the micro-blogging service seems lacking in its features and its potential to surpass its competitors. But Yahoo aggressively targeted the Portuguese market and is now going after Spanish-speaking population and its 330 million native speakers
ALSO
Testing in Brazil
According to consultancy comScore English, the microblog registered in June 1.837
milhão
million
de usuários únicos no Brasil, atrás do Orkut, com 22,165 milhões, eo Windows Live
of unique users in Brazil, Orkut ago, with 22.165 million, and Windows Live
Profile, da Microsoft, com 7,159 milhões.
Profile from Microsoft, with 7.159 million.
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Estamos pensando em criar um microblog.
We are thinking of creating a microblog.
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O Yahoo!
Yahoo!
já tem, em versão alpha (testes), desde abril deste ano, um serviço semelhante, o Meme, mas que ainda é de uso restrito - só se entra com convite de alguém que já está lá.
already have in version alpha (testing), since April this year, a similar service, the Meme, but still is limited - only enter with an invitation from someone already there.
O Meme é um projeto totalmente desenvolvido no Brasil que permite a publicação de textos sem limite de tamanho (ao contrário do Twitter, onde só se pode escrever 140 caracteres), fotos e músicas em MP3 armazenadas no disco rÃgido do usuário e vÃdeos do YouTube.
The Meme is a project developed entirely in Brazil that allows the publication of texts with no limit in size (unlike Twitter, which can only write 140 characters), photos and MP3 music stored on the user's hard drive and videos from YouTube.
