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Aug

Yahoo Quietly Rolls Out Yahoo Meme In Spanish

   Posted by: Hari   in World

Yahoo recently launched a Portuguese language micro-blogging product, Yahoo Meme, that drew similarities to Twitter and Tumblr. And on second glance, it seemed to be a mediocre competitor to Twitter, Tumblr and other micro-sharing services in terms of its offerings and features. And the blogosphere questioned why Yahoo launched the product in Portuguese only.

But now it appears that Yahoo has lofty ambitions for Yahoo Meme, as it has stealthily rolled the micro-blogging service out in Spanish to appeal to the masses. The Spanish language is currently the world’s second most popular language in the world in terms of native speakers (it’s fourth in terms of total speakers).

Here’s how Yahoo Meme works: you create an account and it starts you off with an empty blog that you can fill with text, images, videos, music or a mixture of those things. All you can add to your blog - apart from the content - is a title, a 100-character description and an avatar. You can also create a comment thread underneath the content you post, which was a feature that was missing when we reviewed Yahoo Meme previously.

Like Twitter and Tumblr, you can search other people’s public accounts and follow them, with updates from these users appearing in your stream. You can also ‘Repost’ anyone’s entry, similar to the ‘Reblog’ feature that’s integrated into Tumblr. As we’ve written before, the micro-blogging service seems lacking in its features and its potential to surpass its competitors. But Yahoo aggressively targeted the Portuguese market and is now going after Spanish-speaking population and its 330 million native speakers.

Yahoo also recently launched Yahoo Know Your Mojo, a site that claims to tell you what kind of “social mojo” you possess by analyzing your Tweets, but actually appears to do basically nothing.

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20
Sep

Opposition to same-sex marriage ban grows

   Posted by: Hari   in Fun, World

The poll found that just 38 percent of likely voters support the measure, while 55 percent intend to vote no. That compares with 42 percent in support and 51 percent opposed in July.

Brown amended the Proposition 8 summary language after the state Supreme Court’s decision on May 15 to overturn California’s previous ban on same-sex marriage.

The pollsters found the amended language played a role in that growing opposition, especially among the 30 percent of likely voters interviewed who had never heard of Prop. 8.

Those voters were much more likely to oppose the measure when read Brown’s wording (58 percent against it and 30 percent for it) than those in the same category who were read the old version of Prop. 8 (42 percent against and 37 percent for it), according to the Field Poll.

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