Comments on: Meme – Yahoo’s Improvement on Twitter

By: Chris Hunter

Chris Hunter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:33:23 +0000

I like what I’ve seen from Meme so far.

And it’s easy to attach to your Twitter account, especially with services like Hootsuite or Twitterfeed, with the RSS functionality. Using those tools with the RSS feed, I can broadcast anywhere!

Very cool.

Simon, thanks for letting us know about this service! I linked to this post on my blog because I liked it so much.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:10:52 +0000

I agree, simplicity is key. KISS always works!

By: Phaoloo

Phaoloo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:07:45 +0000

Maybe I have to register Meme now to keep my name on it but I stay on Twitter. The strength of Twitter that other alternatives don’t have is the simplicity. Others try to add to their products many features and the results would be messes.

By: Dean Soto

Dean Soto — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:38:23 +0000

As with any social network, it has it’s positives and negatives. I’ve tried it out and I like it so far. Does it come close to Twitter? Not really, but it’s still nice to have in your social networking toolbox.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:51:50 +0000

It seems really strange that it wouldn’t have good search functionality. Isn’t that suppose to be Yahoo’s primary business interest.

One thing that I don’t like about twitter, is clicking on shortened links, that I don’t know where they lead. I do like to idea of inline content, to some extent, but I also agree with the previous commenter on the length of posts. There are times when I need an extra 10 or 20 characters on twitter, but 2000 characters may be too much.

By: reinkefj

reinkefj — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:22:58 +0000

I don’t care for the name. Meme, like gene, is supposed to represent a defining concept. Paradigm is perception. Meme is the mental construction that we can share. (A meme can be “wrong” like government. But it’s something (an idea) we can exchange and understand. I think Yahoo has muddled the pond. IMHO!

By: Mitchel Berberich

Mitchel Berberich — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:19:49 +0000

Indeed, there are features implemented in meme (as described above) that I miss in twitter: Being able to post images and a good reposting method which allows me to add a short comment, so I can say what I like or dislike about the original post.

Other features like relaxing the char-limit or being able to include videos are quite useless in my opinion: What I like about twitter is that the authors have to think about what they want to say and how to say it in a short way! Relaxing the 140 char limit to 4000 characters or including video each reader has to spent more time to figure out what each posting is all about. It may be easier for authors but it “steals” my time as reader … If these limits fall, then I / we can go back and use normal internet forum threads, as there is no real advantage of the then not-so-micro-blogging any more.

By: gadgetpure INFO

gadgetpure INFO — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:00:23 +0000

It seems I have to create my Meme account since I think meme will be popular as twitter