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Yahoo Meme (Twitter knockoff)

9 points by mshafrir 17y ago

mshafrir 17y ago
"Não tem tempo nem paciência pra blogar? Então o Meme foi feito sob medida pra você. Aguarde." translates to "Do not have time nor patience for blogging? So Meme is tailored for you. Wait."
- dotcoma 17y ago
  so you do need some patience ;)
csbartus 17y ago
Targeted only to Portuguese ... how this would kick off Twitter?
- colins_pride 17y ago
  Maybe that's part of their plan for managing userbase growth
- herval 17y ago
  it's probably a smart move from Yahoo -- brazil is known for adopting 'lesser' stuff (orkut instead of facebook, fotolog instead of flickr/similars), some video sites instead of youtube (although youtube is also popular here) launching a twitter for the brazilian market is a rather obvious idea. Although twitter is catching up real quick in brazil, so maybe it's a bit late...
  - pkulak 17y ago
    What does Portugal have to do with Brazil?
    - jrmurad 17y ago
      Where are you getting Portugal from? Portuguese (the language spoken in Brazil)? Clicking the "acesse"* link brings me to Yahoo's clearly Brazilian portal. * which I think might be spelled "accesse" with two C's in Portugal (like acção->ação [action] changed from Portugal to its former colony)
      - pkulak 17y ago
        Ah, I didn't know they spoke Portuguese in Brazil.
    - gojomo 17y ago
      Brazil is the world's largest population of Portuguese speakers -- 190 million in Brazil, compared to 10 million in Portugal.
    - deleted 17y ago
      [deleted]
  - rglullis 17y ago
    "Lesser" stuff? Orkut was dominated by Brazilians in 2004. That is at a time when Friendster was the social media darling and Facebook was still called TheFacebook. When Fotolog was huge in Brazil, Flickr was still a MMOG. You just can't say that Brazil adopted "lesser" stuff, when the "other" stuff didn't even exist in a comparable form.
    - herval 17y ago
      so maybe brazil is such an early adopter it ends up ignoring sites that get popular everywhere else, then? :-)
  - slig 17y ago
    Yahoo! Answers is really big down here, maybe isn't that too late to catch up users that probably never heard about twitter.
rglullis 17y ago
Yahoo Meme is not being placed as a twitter knockoff. Rather, they will push it as a tool to spread links, pictures, news, etc. It's for the kind of thing that you don't want bookmark with delicious, but want to share with your friends. The user base will certainly be different, too. The user from Yahoo Meme will have the same profile from MySpace.
Sal 17y ago
Not even worth talking about at this point
furburger 17y ago
hey yahoo, if you want a social network of chatter, just bring back the one you killed - yahoo news message boards.

9 points by mshafrir 17y ago

"Não tem tempo nem paciência pra blogar? Então o Meme foi feito sob medida pra você. Aguarde." translates to "Do not have time nor patience for blogging? So Meme is tailored for you. Wait."

dotcoma 17y ago
so you do need some patience ;)

csbartus 17y ago

Targeted only to Portuguese ... how this would kick off Twitter?

colins_pride 17y ago
Maybe that's part of their plan for managing userbase growth
herval 17y ago
it's probably a smart move from Yahoo -- brazil is known for adopting 'lesser' stuff (orkut instead of facebook, fotolog instead of flickr/similars), some video sites instead of youtube (although youtube is also popular here) launching a twitter for the brazilian market is a rather obvious idea. Although twitter is catching up real quick in brazil, so maybe it's a bit late...
- pkulak 17y ago
  What does Portugal have to do with Brazil?
  - jrmurad 17y ago
    Where are you getting Portugal from? Portuguese (the language spoken in Brazil)? Clicking the "acesse"* link brings me to Yahoo's clearly Brazilian portal. * which I think might be spelled "accesse" with two C's in Portugal (like acção->ação [action] changed from Portugal to its former colony)
    - pkulak 17y ago
      Ah, I didn't know they spoke Portuguese in Brazil.
  - gojomo 17y ago
    Brazil is the world's largest population of Portuguese speakers -- 190 million in Brazil, compared to 10 million in Portugal.
  - deleted 17y ago
    [deleted]
- rglullis 17y ago
  "Lesser" stuff? Orkut was dominated by Brazilians in 2004. That is at a time when Friendster was the social media darling and Facebook was still called TheFacebook. When Fotolog was huge in Brazil, Flickr was still a MMOG. You just can't say that Brazil adopted "lesser" stuff, when the "other" stuff didn't even exist in a comparable form.
  - herval 17y ago
    so maybe brazil is such an early adopter it ends up ignoring sites that get popular everywhere else, then? :-)
- slig 17y ago
  Yahoo! Answers is really big down here, maybe isn't that too late to catch up users that probably never heard about twitter.

rglullis 17y ago

Yahoo Meme is not being placed as a twitter knockoff. Rather, they will push it as a tool to spread links, pictures, news, etc. It's for the kind of thing that you don't want bookmark with delicious, but want to share with your friends. The user base will certainly be different, too. The user from Yahoo Meme will have the same profile from MySpace.

Sal 17y ago

Not even worth talking about at this point

furburger 17y ago

hey yahoo, if you want a social network of chatter, just bring back the one you killed - yahoo news message boards.