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		<title>My Hot Experience With Yahoo! Meme</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I&#8217;m guesting over at The No Look Pass today &#8211; may or may not be up yet as you read this.) So Yahoo! has broken out with their Twitter clone, titled Yahoo! Meme. I got an early invite, and near as I can tell, I&#8217;m the first person on there from the United States, and [...]]]></description>
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<p>So Yahoo! has broken out with their Twitter clone, <a href="http://meme.yahoo.com/brianspaeth/">titled <em>Yahoo! Meme</em></a>.</p>
<p>I got an early invite, and near as I can tell, I&#8217;m the first person on there from the United States, and one of the 2% of users who speak English. Apparently the <em>Meme</em> is big in Portugal, and that country even has its own language and everything.</p>
<p>Being put in this position does have its advantages. For example, I was the first person in history to talk about all of the following on <em>Yahoo! Meme</em>: Michael Jordan, unicorns, honkies, and candy. Can someone put this in my Wikipedia.</p>
<p>My early impression of the service is as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>1)</strong> I can&#8217;t find any people who speak English.</p>
<p><strong>2)</strong> There&#8217;s no search function for topics, only people.</p>
<p><strong>3)</strong> When I search for people, they&#8217;re all from Portugal.</p>
<p><strong>4)</strong> I&#8217;ve been told that &#8220;meme&#8221; is pronounced &#8220;meeme&#8221;, which really bothers me. If you&#8217;ve read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Brad-Radbys-Radby-Filmography-1999-2023/dp/1441418148" target="_blank">my Brad Radby book</a> (warning: that&#8217;s an Amazon link), you know I love memes &#8211; I always said it as &#8220;mehm&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>5)</strong> There&#8217;s like this way they make it creepy for you, in that some of the links are like, &#8220;go see your meme&#8221;. It makes it sound like it&#8217;s part of your body, or some pseudo-sexual thing. I say quit trying to be clever and get some functionality in there.</p>
<p><strong>6)</strong> Generally, I have no idea wtf I&#8217;m supposed to do with my meme.</p></blockquote>
<p>So there you go &#8211; and it&#8217;s a big relief I don&#8217;t feel any pull to add another another social networking site to the daily routine.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s your favorite thing to eat for breakfast that isn&#8217;t a breakfast food, and also have you ever put a rock in a microwave, and does the rock get warm if you do that.</p>
<p><em>(I&#8217;m guest-blogging every day somewhere different between now and year-end. If you want a post, let me know and I&#8217;ll put you on the sched. Also, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/whoshotmamba" target="_blank">go join the Facebook Page for my movie</a>.)</em></p>
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