Yahoo’s upcoming product Meme can fight Twitter. One of the ways we had suggested was to integrate Yahoo meme with the existing Yahoo properties like mail, messenger, etc. Yahoo Meme’s homepage still reads ‘Coming Soon’. But looks like a lot of background activity is already happening. Apparently, Yahoo is testing the meme feature integration on Yahoo mail. This testing is currently visible on the Yahoo India mail boxes. A Yahoo.com mail I tried with did not have the feature. The new ‘updates’ box is asking me “What are you doing right now?â€. However, you do not get to receive updates from other friends on your contacts list right away. Users have to choose whom to receive contacts from and only after approval from other side do you get to see their updates. A nice nifty feature to get people get social from the mailbox. Remember, Yahoo had talked about making Email social sometime back! Does Yahoo have a war plan? Apparently, ?????????? Our DP Members need to reply
Looks like they are trying to add social networking capabilities to the mail. And no doubt they would integrate meme to it. Its pretty clear after seeing the get update widget.
I think they should just integrate Twitter into their platform and make it the choice rather than reinvent the wheel - unlesssss if they make a unique idea to add on to it in order to beat out Twitter after making memeing known everywhere we'll see how this plays out
I don't think this feature will take off. Yahoo has tried several things in the past, only to cancel them. You can't beat twitter at its game. My advice to Yahoo: innovate! don't just copy.