Yahoo Buys The Me.me Domain For Its Twitter-Like Microblogging Site
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is apparently still going full-force with its Twitter competitor, Yahoo Meme. The company has now bought up the oh-so-clever domain name, Me.me, from the .ME domain registry, which is based in the country of Montenegro. No word on how much Yahoo paid.
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Yahoo, however, calls the purchase “an essential component of our online branding strategy.” The buy may suggest that Yahoo is readying a wider roll-out of the service, which has not been advertised widely.
On Meme, users write up short entries and add photos or videos to their pages, which are called “memes;” users can “follow” other memes and track entries from those pages via one central dashboard.
Meme initially launched in Portuguese a year ago; English and Spanish-language versions followed this fall. We’ve asked Yahoo for any new details on the status of the site and will update when we hear back.
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