Share Interesting Things With Others With “Meme” - A Micro Blogging Service by Yahoo
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on November 12th, 2009
Meme is a micro blogging service Powered by Yahoo, which lets you to share interesting things with the world.
Through your Meme you can post text, photo, video and music. You can also check what other people are posting and repost and comment the content you find interesting.
What does Meme mean?
A “meme” is commonly known on web as some kind of content that spreads fast and draws everyone’s attention. The term itself was created by Richard Dawkins and published in his book “The Selfish Gene” in 1976.
How do I create a Meme?
For people with a yahoo account (which I believe most of you have), you just need to fill the Id and password field and you will be redirected to create your Meme account.
You gets your own dashboard, which is your private space inside Meme. You can post your content and also keep track from the Memes you follow. All content that you post through your dashboard will be immediately available to other users.
Yahoo Meme and Twitter
Yahoo Meme is different from Twitter as it offers its users more options. Probably the most exciting option is to be able to post not only text but also audio, video and images directly to a meme.
Meme’s content limits are higher than Twitter’s—the limit is 2,000 characters.
Meme Versions
Meme is available in beta in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Meme has already started to capture the imagination of people around the globe from Brazil to the Philippines to India, China, and Turkey.
YouthPad, a venture of USP Media Solutions, is targeted towards college goers in Delhi. It aims at brining together the young minds on a single platform.
Farzaap, a site with a vision to collate strong voiced bloggers, have a tough task ahead. There are already plenty of websites in the similar domain with great features and established web presence.
Blogs are now the prefered way of reading and posting on web. Though blogs have existed for sometime now, still for most of the Indians, its a very new term.
In layman term, Microblogging is nothing but status updates. Through this service you can update your friends and may be acquintances about what you are upto.
Search, Claim and Organize Your Comments Using BackType
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 5th, 2009
Keep Your Comments Organized With BackType
BackType, a new search engine, focuses on scattered discussions across blogs, social news sites and microblogging services.
Whenever you fill out the ‘Website‘ or ‘URL‘ field in a comment form, BackType attributes it to you. It mainly give comment authors a profile featuring all the comments they’ve written on the Internet.
What services do they offer at BackType?
BackType offers two distinct services for different sets of users. The first is a comment claiming system with which users can register and identify their online presence.
The other one being its search engine that allows users to actually sift through all these comments and receive keyword-based alerts. This allows general users to check on what others are saying about the day’s hot topics.
These comments are not only keyword searchable but can be followed by author, allowing you to keep track of what your friends are saying online.
BackType have already indexed comments from platforms like Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, Digg, and Reddit, but it also crawls Yelp, a social review service, Mahalo Answers, and hosted comment services like Disqus and Intense Debate.
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