Menéame is a Spanish

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based on community participation, made for users to discover and share content on the

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, by submitting links, which are voted and commented upon. Its model is based on

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and it combines

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and

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with a publication system without editors. In July 2019, the Alexa Internet ranking presented the site in position 6249 of the world list, and 129 of the Spanish list.

Overview

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ranked Menéame.net as Spain's 179th most popular site as of February 2016. Its name derives from the verb ''menear'' (

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for "to wiggle, shake or move") and means "shake me" or "move me". In February, 2016,

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founder and CEO announced he was going to leave the company. In this moment, Meneame's management is taken by Remo Domingo, director of the consultant firm iAsesoría and former financial manager of Menéame in last years, and Daniel Seijo, founder of the startup investment company Civeta Investment SA. In this way, Martín Varsavsky continues being main shareholder. The

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software that runs menéame is

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under

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and is available through SVN and

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."GitHub - Menéame"
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References

External links

Official site

Menéame official blog
Spanish news websites Social bookmarking Internet properties established in 2005 Social information processing Free software programmed in PHP Spanish-language websites Software using the GNU Affero General Public License {{socialnetwork-stub