The term Internet meme or meme for the short, it’s given to a kind of content that spreads really really fast threw the web, (mostly by some social network) from person-to-person.

Or at least it was until this week when the term meme was also the name of the new Yahoo! service, which turned out to be a real meme with a blog post on TechCrunch, followed by a link stream on Twitter.

Meme was developed by a Brazilian team of Yahoo!, which up until yesterday, has released some invitations by mail.

Meme has nearly the same appeal of weheartit (social image bookmarking), though at the same time, it work can be seen as inspired by many other social nets such as del.icio.us, blip.fm, YouTube, Vimeo, last.fm, Facebook, digg, orkut, Flickr, plurk, meadiciona, and so it goes with an infinity of nameless apps that I don’t even have to say so that you get it: The new Yahoo! Service follows the company’s tradition of creating mashups or buying social nets of content sharing, and is not a copy of any other product.

Currently the service finds itself closed to any new registrations while Yahoo! performs the analysis of the alpha feedback (the test period before it be released to the open public).

Alpha was open for a day so that users could send invitations to their friends. I guess it was so that it wouldn’t give a bad impression to any new user, with the lack of some functionality, the invitations system was disabled today.

I truly hope that the Brazilian team at Yahoo! keep going with the great work e I’ll take the apportunity to comment something that it’s tremendously important IMHO:

If you’re wearing a good framework, building an API as good as Flickr shouldn’t be so hard. Make it fast, before that scripts be programmed to perform actions at the service pages. Definitely this will be heavier than some JSON or any others HTTP verbs.

You know what I’m talking about (:

http://meme.yahoo.com/dirs/

Translated and edited from this post, by me.