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Yahoo Meeting Minutes – 05.20.13 by Lee Crutchley | Quoteskine on Flickr.

Tumblr @ Yahoo: Day 1

chartier:

  • New purple dashboard option
  • All other dashboard color options are retired
  • By June 1, you will have to update your avatar to be one of those damn cartoon people things
  • All new post buttons (icon and background) are now purple
  • Every sentence you write will automatically get an exclamation point!
  • All exclamation points are now purple
  • Yahoo Mail gets a button to auto-post incoming messages to Tumblr
  • Tumblr’s mobile apps now automatically summarize all text posts so you don’t have to do all that damn reading
  • All photos are also summarized using auto-generated shadow puppet images with dramatic text captions to save on bandwidth costs
  • All posts have a chance to appear on the Yahoo.com front page. None of yours will

LOL

sigh

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Breaking down Yahoo’s announcement of Jerry Yang’s resignation

The whole thing is just precious, hilarious reading. Go and read it.

Breaking down Yahoo’s announcement of Jerry Yang’s resignation

Losing Faith

MG Siegler on Google’s failed launch of Gmail app for iOS earlier today:

That’s maybe my biggest problem with Google. They release something, and I no longer have any faith that it’s going to be any good. It’s hard to get excited about a company like that. It’s the same reason why it’s hard to get excited when Microsoft and Yahoo release new things. The track record just isn’t there any more. The faith is gone.

I share his sentiment for the most part but I still hold hopes for Microsoft and Yahoo since they seem to be getting back on the right track albeit slowly.

Yahoo!’s releases today at Product Runway point generally to the right direction and Microsoft’s deal with Nokia for Windows Phone is beginning to show some promise even though it’s not as quick as I hoped it would be.

For the past couple of months I and others have had a massive surge in following numbers in not Twitter, but Yahoo! Meme. In my case, from under 50 followers to over 6000 with little content to warrant such following. I’d like to think I’m THAT popular but I’d be hallucinating. Even on Twitter my follower number is (right now) a tad under 3300

Many of us signed up to Meme almost a year ago to check out the scene, as you do with any new web service. While it’s a Tumblr clone almost feature for feature, it’s not backed by a proper mobile app which it really should have if Yahoo! was serious about it. Their mobile site only lets you post text updates, at least from smart phones. You couldn’t upload photos, videos or audio while on the go. Everything has to be from the desktop (or notebook). That lack of mobile access led me to pretty much abandoning the service until they decided to pick up the slack.

Now, about the surge, I’m not sure what’s going on but someone or some people seems to have created bot accounts to pump following numbers. I’m not sure if Yahoo! is paying attention to this (they must be, there are thousands of these), and if they are, whether they’re going to do anything about it. For all I know it could be Yahoo! itself either directly or indirectly, who knows?

On one hand it creates the illusion that they have a massive number of users, on the other, they’re inactive users adding no value to the community it purports to create. Either way, it’s not a good thing for Yahoo!’s fledgling social media effort.

For what it’s worth, I see more actual push for Koprol than Meme.

Yahoo Meme Mobile

The mobile site for Yahoo! Meme looks pretty sweet on the iPhone. Unforfunately it doesn’t support non-text uploads yet. No video, no audio, and no photos. That’s too bad. Would make for a decent mobile photo blog site. I guess Posterous still has that department covered pretty well.

There’s no post by email yet either. On another note, I wonder how much space Yahoo gives to meme users.

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