TECH TOLA

What is YAHOO MEME ?? Answer in ONE line.

Its a Twitter Competitor with 2000 character limit and HTML tag support + Tumblr + Digg + Photobucket + Facebook Comment System + ULTRA MINIMAL INTERFACE like Twitter even with all these features ! (Cmon! Can't a single line answer can have 197 chars ?)



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Now for the detailed review of certain interesting features.

Digg like system for memes :- When you let out a nice tweet in twitter, when your followers like it they retweet but it doesn't gain any publicity. In Y! Meme heavily re-posted posts are listed in a popular memes page along with re-post count and a 1-Click Repost button.

Image hosting :- You can use Y! meme to host images. On your Y!Meme dashboard page, Click photo > file > upload the file. Now the photo is visible in your meme's page. Click it to view bigger preview. Right click and get location, use it anywhere. The image on the right is actually from one of my memes.


What I don't like about it :- Seriously the service is amazing. I would prefer a better catchy URL - http://meme.yahoo.com is not cool at all ! Remember what Linus Torvalds said about why Linux got famous faster - "The only thing that Linux has better than FreeBSD is its cool catchy name.." I think the same goes for twitter and Y!Meme

I would prefer some awesome Firefox plug-in clients, desktop clients (preferably in Adobe AIR) to make the experience easier. Probably Yahoo themselves could release one to take a lead. I would also like to see the "lists" feature of Twitter (which is terribly buggy!)

I have just started Meme-ing. Join me there and let me know what you feel about the service!