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So i decided to have a look at Meme, i received my account invitation days ago, I’ve mostly just looked around and have not posted anything yet though, i noticed a few things:

- Only can post videos from YouTube and Vimeo, what about Yahoo’s own video services?

- I don’t like how the Popular page works, it is kind of limited, the Trending topics from twitter works a lot better i think.

- I like it how there are clearly defined options to post text, pics, music and videos

- It lacks several things such as posting from your mobile and similars

- Statistics are not grouped in a single place, i want to look at a small panel and see followers, following etc, this is easy to do in Twitter

- It is alpha, so i should stop criticizing it until it is ready for prime time :P

At the end, i like it, but it does feel lacking in some aspects, but again, it is alpha code so i expect things to improve later on, i hope so, and it seems to have a lot of potential specially when considering it is not just a text service, you can post whatever you like, something i thought was a very good idea is the ability to post videos/music/podcasts or whatever your product is and just let it go to the public, very handy idea for marketing purposes, and it is way to easy to do so with Meme.

There are already tons of people with Meme accounts, but when looking around, lots of them are simply not posting anything yet, i guess it is difficult for people to decide on which site they will post, and since there is no way to post something on Twitter and have it automatically posted on Meme, at least i am not aware of something like that, people seem to do the same as i do, just have the account for for now, i won’t do anything with it, maybe later, maybe not? i think this also has to do with Meme being a very new service, but i get the feeling that people is afraid to commit to Meme, they just need to figure out that they don’t need to give up on Twitter or whatever else they are using, but this will take time for sure, and when desktop tools or other services get to add support for Meme, it will easy that step.

There are a lot of people that says Meme is just a Twitter wannabe, but i think not, from what i have seen, this service has a lot of potential, the fact that you can post videos, music and photos is more than enough from marketing purposes, Twitter won’t allow you to do that, and sometimes, a video or a picture can grab the reader’s attention faster than any phrase you can come up with to try and make people go to your site, i think that will be a very strong point in Meme’s success in the near future.

All in all, i did like it and i will be keeping a close watch on it, now let’s see how Twitter will react…

Oh yeah, and i still have 5 invitations left in case anyone is interested, just drop me a line :)