Yahoo meme:My First Impression

As we all know Yahoo launched its own microblogging service Yahoo meme in English some time back.Yahoo had first launched the product in portuguese.I left my eMail id hoping to get an account on 1st september(It is still in invitation mode).Today I was plesantly surprised to see the activation mail in my mail box.

I immediately activated the account and checked what is there inside meme.

You can give a description ,title and picture for your account.
You can post text ,photo,a video or a music link and find what is popular.
You can select Themes ,invite friends,find other interesting memes and follow them.Updates from those memes will appear in your stream.You can also ‘Repost’ other's entry.

When I compare this with Twitter ,I feel it has a long way to go.So what is missing when you compare this with twitter?

1.It does not allow me to save the search query.I also felt that search was not up to the mark.
2.Does not have RSS feed support.
3.Does not have a mobile version.
4.Does not have a public API (Atleast I was not able to find it.The API is available through YQL though. http://bit.ly/xLXu2).
5.You can not send a private message to other memes.
6.You do not need an approval to follow others.

Over all it is lacking in many features in its current form and looks very mediocore .If you still want to give it a try then drop me a mail.I have 7 invitations with me.

Yahoo meme:Microblogging platform from Yahoo

A few weeks ago Yahoo launched it's own microblogging platform called Yahoo meme in Portuguese.It has now extended the service to Spanish and English.
As of now You need an invitation to create an account and get started.The whole web is comparing the yahoo offerings with that of Twitter,Posterus and Tumblr.

According to readwriteweb Yahoo Meme is really more of a back-to-basics micro-blogging service that feels a lot more like Posterous or Tumblr than Twitter.

Will yahoo succeed this time? It's track record with the social networking is not good though.It recently shut down SpotM ,an India centric social networking initiative from Yahoo India.Let's wait to see if Yahoo can compete with other MicroBlogging sites.