Yahoo recently released an API for Meme, the company's microblogging service, which is still in beta. If you are not familiar with Meme, it's kind of resembling Yahoo's version of Twitter, minus the huge amount of hype.
Meme was only accessible in Portuguese and Spanish before becoming available in English to persons who got invites at the beginning of September. Through the API, developers can harness the power of Meme to build applications along with mashups.
The Meme API is built on crest of the Yahoo Query Language (YQL) platform. Yahoo says the API can simply be used to create mashups with other products built on Yahoo Query Language (YQL). Yahoo itself used the API to build the mobile version of Meme for smartphones.
Yahoo says Meme permits the people to:
- Post their individual content and repost the content of others users that they find interesting
- One-Click reposts for effortless and easy publishing
- Follow other Meme users also comment on their posts
- Eliminate content from their Meme including previous updates, reposts, comments, etc.
- Check out the most admired posts
- Consume and generate content via their mobile devices
- Content limits are up to 2,000 characters and up to 7MB for each and every photo.
The jury is still out on whether Meme will be a victory for Yahoo or not. Availability will have to open up more for one thing. The API would absolutely be a step in the right direction and the genuine question is do people need another Twitter? If Yahoo can prop up the service between loyal Yahoo users, maybe it can do well, but with Yahoo's new homepage, which can include other social networks users are already a part of, are they going to be worried about becoming a part of the Meme community too? I guess we will see.
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