| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.01.2021 | Bebo is making a comeback in February as a ‘brand new social network,’ 16 years after it first launched | Bebo is returning as a new social network, according to its website. Grace Dean/Insider
Bebo says it will make a return in February 2021 as a “brand new social network.”
Users won’t be able to access their old accounts or data, it said.
The... |
| 29.01.2021 | Bebo is making a comeback in February as a 'brand new social network,' 16 years after it first launched | Bebo says it will make a return in February 2021 as a "brand new social network."
Users won't be able to access their old accounts or data, it said.
The site was founded in 2005 and had a tumultuous rise and fall.
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So... |
| 18.06.2019 | Amazon’s Twitch acquired social networking platform Bebo for up to $25M to bolster its esports efforts | While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiary of Amazon. TechCrunch has learned and ... |
| 22.03.2016 | Where are they now? How these 9 social networks have fared since Twitter was born | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A lot has happened in the ten years since Twitter was founded — Apple’s App Store and Google Play have come to fruition, the app econom... |
| 22.03.2016 | Where are they now? How these 9 social networks have fared since Twitter was born | A lot has happened in the ten years since Twitter was founded — Apple’s App Store and Google Play have come to fruition, the app economy is a billion-dollar industry, and mobile phones have become the new computers. This shift in the way pe... |
| 18.07.2014 | Bebo Founder Michael Birch Sends Cease And Desist To Airbnb For Infringement On “Genital Marketing” | Bebo founder Michael Birch just sent Airbnb what seems to be a hilarious tongue-in-cheek cease and desist letter, citing the “phallic nature” of the new Airbnb logo.
Airbnb’s new logo has been a sort of Rorschach test for all of Silicon Val... |
| 01.07.2013 | Bebo’s Founder Michael Birch Says He’s Bought Back The Social Network For $1M, Plans To ‘Reinvent’ It | Another turn in the twisted life of social network Bebo, which has unfortunately gone in the direction of a downward spiral for much of the last couple of years: the site appears to have been bought back by its founder Michael Birch for $1 ... |
| 10.05.2013 | Social Network Bebo Has Filed A Voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Petition | Looks like Bebo, once an early star in social networking, is progressing to the next step in the long and messy struggle between majority shareholder Criterion Capital Partners and minority shareholders that include co-founder Michael Birch... |
| 05.11.2012 | Meet Tadaa, a photo-sharing app that dares to take on Instagram | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Instagram may be massively dominating the photo-sharing market, but that hasn’t stopped some worthy contenders emerging to take on the ... |
| 30.01.2012 | Angel Gambino: The Ultimate Early Adopter Sets Her Sights on Detroit | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Serial entrepreneur Angel Gambino has every right to be arrogant—as people with resumes like hers often are—but she’s as down-to-earth and polite as they come.
Sure, a casual ... |
| 30.01.2012 | Is Bebo Finally Dead? (Update: Not Quite) | Update: Apparently all the online grieving was over a false alarm. A Bebo spokesperson just emailed me to say that the site was down due to “a technical clusterfuck” — it’s not actually dead. He also says that the site still has a niche aud... |
| 11.01.2012 | Group Says Twitter Trails Other Social Networks In Fighting Pedophilia | A watchdog group says Twitter lags behind Facebook, Bebo and other social networks when it comes to protecting children from abuse.
The London-based Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre said it believes some pedophiles still use ... |
| 04.12.2011 | Building For The Long Haul | Editor’s note: This post was written by guest contributor Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box.net. His last post on TechCrunch was Competing Against The Big Guys.
At a recent Startup School, Mark Zuckerberg made some very poignant commen... |
| 31.08.2011 | Impermium Launches Social Spam Index; Finds That Up To 40 Percent Of Online IDs Are Fake | In June, we covered the launch of Impermium, a young startup aimed at zapping the Internet’s social spam wherever it hides. Not only is the startup bringing the heat to user generated spam like spammy comments, hacked accounts, and fraudule... |
| 11.04.2011 | Resurrected Bebo gets a facelift | Social networking site Bebo has only been in the news sporadically since AOL sold it to Criterion Capital Partners last June, but the company says it has been steadily rolling out new features. Today, it’s unveiling a redesigned home page.
... |
| 09.12.2010 | Bebo co-founder to advise his old company | Michael Birch to help evolve social networking startup, bought by AOL for $850M and sold for $10M
Bebo co-founder Michael Birch has come full circle, back to the startup he helped create in 2005.
Birch and his wife Xochi launched Bebo, a so... |
| 09.12.2010 | Bebo cofounder Michael Birch buys back a piece of his baby | After AOL sold Bebo, many scoffed at the idea of the social network’s resurgence. Despite AOL’s years of neglect, Bebo cofounder Michael Birch isn’t among the naysayers. Birch will be rejoining Bebo as an investor and advisor, purchasing a ... |
| 05.12.2010 | NSFW: Another Year, Another Possibly Depressing Visit to London | Another day – another year, actually – another airport. This time I’m at gate A11 at SFO waiting for my flight to London. My plan was to use the 10 hour flight to write a column about how I’m looking forward to seeing London again but how I... |
| 10.11.2010 | Bebo launches Meebo instant messaging, in effort to win over Chat-starved users | Bebo just launched Meebo’s web-based instant messaging client across the social network and the company says a million messages have been sent already
This is Bebo’s first step towards a much more real-time, interactive platform since they ... |
| 09.11.2010 | Bebo Adds Meebo In Belated Effort To Win Over Chat-starved Users | Bebo just launched Meebo’s web-based instant messaging client across the social network and the company says a million messages have been sent already
This is Bebo’s first step towards a much more real-time, interactive platform since they ... |
| 13.09.2010 | Bebo's Back. And They Plan To Have A Plan (Video) | Bebo is like a bad case of herpes – it just keeps coming back. They sold to AOL for $850 million in 2008. Then AOL, under new management, sort of just shut it down for tax purposes, selling it for next to nothing to Criterion Capital Partne... |
| 17.06.2010 | Bebo – The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle? Or AOL’s screw-up? | In January last year we predicted that AOL was listing a sale of Bebo as an option for the social network it had acquired for $850 million in 2008 and then effectively let languish. At the time three other sources intimately acquainted with... |
| 19.05.2010 | Bebo founder Michael Birch invests in social media agency Punktilio | Michael Birch, who co-founded social network Bebo along with his wife Xochi Birch, has invested an undisclosed amount in social media agency Punktilio. He’ll also become an adviser to the company.
Punktilio, whose clients include Arsenal F.... |
| 28.04.2010 | AOL's Total Revenue Drops To $664 Million For The First Quarter | AOL just released its financial results for the first quarter of 2010, reporting another drop in total revenues.
If revenue dropped 17% year-over-year in the last quarter of 2009 compared to the same period a year before, its total revenues... |
| 09.04.2010 | Bebo's Awkward Email To Media Partners | AOL needs to offload Bebo fast. And tax experts say that the best financial result for AOL may be to simply abandon Bebo rather than sell it. All of that makes for a rather awkward situation with Bebo partners.
How do you handle that awkwar... |
| 10.03.2010 | Why AOL May Just Abandon Bebo Rather Than Sell It | Newly independent Aol is still struggling with the fate of Bebo, the social network they acquired for $850 million in 2008.
No one argues that Aol underpaid for Bebo . And the social network has fallen from 22 million monthly unique visitor... |
| 26.01.2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s London | A settlement for nearly 2,000 years, London is today the most populous greater metropolitan area in Europe with over 13 million residents. Home to popular tourist locations such as Big Ben, The London Eye and Buckingham Palace, London’s sky... |
| 11.12.2009 | GigJunkie partners with Bebo through new Tour Dates app for UK music fans | [UK] GigJunkie, a site that helps UK music fans discover gigs and purchase concert tickets, has announced a partnership with AOL-owned Bebo.
The new collaboration sees the launch of the ‘Tour Dates‘ application, which enables British Bebo u... |
| 09.12.2009 | AOL spinoff — the cheat sheet | A decade after the world’s craziest merger, AOL has been spun off again from Time Warner, which AOL acquired for a stuperiffic $164 billion dollars a decade ago. (That’s right: It was AOL which purchased Time Warner, not the other way aroun... |
| 06.12.2009 | NSFW: Sleepless in London. It's scary outside the bubble | I’m tired. Very tired. It’s a little after 4am San Francisco time – noon GMT – and I’m sitting in the arrivals lounge Heathrow airport, thanking the lord for Boingo hotspots and trying to commit these few hundred words to cyberspace before ... |
| 13.09.2009 | Location-Based Mobile Social Network Centrl Integrates Web App, Adds First Real-Time Location-Based Messaging System | “Location” has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords in the web industry recently, with i.e. Twitter, Facebook and Google having substantially stepped up efforts in that area in the last few months. TechCrunch has always been parti... |
| 03.09.2009 | First MySpace, now Bebo and Bing: Twitter is overtaking the big players in the UK | On Tuesday we carried the news that Twitter’s site traffic (for all that number means) had overtaken MySpace’s. No great surprises there, we said. But that’s not the only site Twitter is trouncing, according to Hitwise director Robin Goad.
... |
| 29.07.2009 | With uncertain future, Bebo gets a new president | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
AOL might spin out its expensively-purchased soci... |
| 29.07.2009 | With uncertain future, Bebo gets a new president | AOL might spin out its expensively-purchased social network, Bebo, as it prepares to be separated from media parent company, Time Warner. Or so say long-running rumors. In the meantime, Bebo has a new president: Stephane Panier, its former ... |
| 10.07.2009 | Bebo's Michael Birch launches $49m startup fund for Europe | Well it appeared to be signed and sealed when news leaked back in April that two icons of the UK’s tech startup world were joining forces to create a new fund to address the so-called ‘equity gap’ in Europe. But it gradually emerged that th... |
| 17.06.2009 | Amuso partners with Bebo and the Metro newspaper | London-based social “game shows” startup Amuso has launched its live multiplayer, micropayment-based trivia game platform with Bebo, and UK national free-paper Metro. Is this the first deal to be done for a between a social networking compa... |
| 08.06.2009 | Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima comes to iPhone� and iPod touch� | World-famous brain training guru Dr. Kawashima lands in the App Store
London, UK - Fans of Apple's iconic iPhone and iPod touch are finally able to use their favourite gadgets to mentally roll back the years thanks to Namco Bandai Networks ... |
| 21.04.2009 | Roundup: Fox News launches uReport, AT&T doubles 3G capacity, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Fox News gets citizen journalism arm on MySpace — Contributors to uReport can only upload and tag photos and videos, presenting fewer possibilities than CNN’s similarly named iReport.
AT&T doubling 3G capacity ... |
| 19.04.2009 | UK startup icons launch fund to bridge Europe's 'Equity gap' | Two icons of the UK’s tech startup world are joining forces to create a new fund to address the so-called ‘equity gap’ in Europe. European Founders Capital (EFC) is being led by Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo, and Brent Hoberman, who set... |
| 19.04.2009 | UK Tech Icons Launch Seed Fund To Bridge The Gap For European Startups | Two icons of the UK’s tech startup world are joining forces to create a new fund to address the so-called ‘equity gap’ in Europe. European Founders Capital (EFC) is being led by Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo, and Brent Hoberman, who set... |
| 17.03.2009 | Bebo partners locally to expand into Europe | Social networking site Bebo has made the leap into Europe, teaming with local media partners to gain a foothold in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands — markets in which Facebook, MySpace and Netlog are already active players.... |
| 16.03.2009 | AOL Rolls Out Bebo In Several European Countries | AOL’s People Networks division has today announced the launch of social networking site Bebo, which it acquired almost exactly one year ago, in several key European countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.
Before... |
| 23.02.2009 | Bebo Zeroes In On Lifestreaming For The Masses; Gets Massive Bump From AIM Profiles | In the first of several major product changes that will sweep through AOL in the coming months, the company is adding more lifestreaming capabilities to its Bebo social network today, including activity stream updates from rival social netw... |
| 23.02.2009 | AOL's Bebo becomes more of a SocialThing | By consolidating some of its acquired technologies, AOL now hopes that folding together functionality from two of its recent acquisitions will ease the pain.
AOL bought Bebo back in March 2008 for $850 million. The service, which is similar... |
| 23.02.2009 | AOL takes one part Bebo, one part AIM, wants to create central lifestreaming service | What does AOL get when it pairs aging instant message service AIM with Bebo, the also-ran social network that it bought for $850 million last spring? A web service that could one day be a main way for people to interact on any web site, the... |
| 19.02.2009 | Roundup: Yelp allegedly extorts, Twitter embraces its origins, Tesla CMO defects and more | Here’s the latest action:
The downturn finally hits HP — The company announced a 10 percent drop in earnings yesterday and plans to cut salaries. CNet has more.
Yelp accused of extortion, again — Local business owners report that the trendy... |
| 06.02.2009 | Bebo Prepares Itself for Reinvention | Earlier this week, we were lamenting about Bebo’s lack of innovation in the online social networking space. Here it was 2009 and they were only just now releasing tools that would help take Bebo mobile. Once again, it looked like Bebo was f... |
| 03.02.2009 | Bebo to add a “timeline” — and data from Facebook and MySpace? | Updated
Will social network Bebo roll out new features to help it regain its stride against larger rivals like Facebook and MySpace — and justify the $850 million that AOL paid for it? Well, the latest answer to that question is a screensho... |
| 28.01.2009 | Bebo, the centerpiece of AOL’s “People Network,” looking for tech VP | Is AOL looking to sell off $850-million acquisition Bebo as a report yesterday indicated might be in the works? Then its recent recruiting efforts must be an “elaborate smoke screen,” as a source quipped to us when they sent in the followin... |
| 27.01.2009 | Whisper it – A year later, AOL contemplates a Bebo sale | I didn’t quite believe it when one of my most trusted sources told me that AOL was seriously considering selling Bebo. But I have now confirmed the rumour with three other sources intimately acquainted with the company. AOL is indeed quietl... |
| 27.01.2009 | Updated: A Year Later, AOL Is Contemplating A Bebo Sale | I didn’t quite believe it when one of my most trusted sources told me that AOL was seriously considering selling Bebo, the social network it acquired for $850 million only a year ago. But I have now confirmed the rumor with three other sour... |
| 19.12.2008 | AOL using AIM chat to boost Bebo, challenge Meebo | AOL is working on a new initiative to make its instant message service, AIM, a central social feature to any web site, well-placed sources tell me. Starting next year, a user on a social network might use AIM to create an IM chat list from ... |
| 13.12.2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Top Web Products of 2008, Shopping 2.0, MySpaceID, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, we continued our Best Products 2008 series with two more lists: Best Consumer Web Apps and Best RSS/Syndication Products. We also reported on... |
| 10.12.2008 | The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe | “Koobface” is the name of the Trojan worm that’s been making its way through the social networking site Facebook lately, but to the site’s users, it’s been simply known as “the Facebook virus.” That name will soon become a misnomer, though,... |
| 10.12.2008 | Bebo launches new homepage, its take on lifestreaming | Bebo is launching a big upgrade to its user homepage. The social network is integrating ways to read email and see what friends are doing on other sites in one place. It’s the AOL-owned company’s take on a web trend called “lifestreaming.”
... |
| 10.12.2008 | Bebo Social Inbox Launches | Log in to the AOL-owned Bebo social network this morning and you’ll see a whole new home page. Like AOL.com, they’ve integrated direct access to AOL, Yahoo and Gmail email accounts, as well as a feed reader. They’ve also fully integrated th... |
| 17.11.2008 | Amuso's Competition Platform Introduces Miss World To The Web | Miss World is going digital. While many American readers may not be familiar with the competition (it isn’t the one owned by Donald Trump – that’s Miss Universe), Miss World is one of the world’s most popular televised events, and has a hug... |
| 25.10.2008 | Happy hours and hype on the social-networking sites | Where did everybody go? Recent Nielsen Online statistics reveal that the social-networking congregating online may not be hanging out where you think they are.
Nielsen's September numbers for thirteen sites with a significant social-network... |
| 22.10.2008 | Utterli Launches Free Group SMS via Facebook, Bebo | In the US, sending SMS messages can get spendy. In the rest of the world, however, texting costs can be downright oppressive. As such, finding cheaper ways to send SMS messages has a broad appeal – especially with the younger, and often cas... |
| 23.09.2008 | Introducing ITV's New Musical Drama Britannia High | New musical drama Britannia High is set to explode onto our television screens this autumn in a whirlwind of stunning dance, sensational music and unforgettable drama.
With original music composed by some of the biggest names in pop includi... |
| 15.09.2008 | New Tool Lets Indie Filmmakers Compete With Big Hollywood Studios | Having owned Xcreative, a web development company that specialized in websites and marketing for the movie industry, the founders of MeDeploy (Christian Taylor, Joelle Musante, and Abe Lettelleir) were very familiar with the film industry. ... |
| 10.09.2008 | Mobile startup Wubud completes Angel round | Wubud, a mobile social network currently in stealth mode, has completed an Angel round of investment from a sole angel – Paul Birch, co-founder of Bebo with brother Michael which this year sold to AOL for $850m. The amount of funding was no... |
| 12.06.2008 | UK proud to protect young refugees | Core Facts
New research published today shows two thirds of people living in Britain are proud the UK provides a safe haven for refugee children fleeing persecution, but there remains widespread confusion around the issue of asylum, with ma... |
| 22.05.2008 | Howcast Aligns With AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv | Howcast, the instructional video site founded by three ex-Googlers, today announced that it has formed distribution agreements with AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv.
Howcast provides professionally produced instructional videos that range f... |
| 13.05.2008 | Too Many Choices, Too Much Content | Sometimes it’s just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers... |
| 02.05.2008 | Dvorak Joins Twitter, Calls It a “Pretend” Community | In typical cranky geek fashion, PC Mag columnist and industry pundit, John C. Dvorak, recently wrote an article about the fragility of social networking in which he claims the value of these networks is transitory, they aren’t real communit... |
| 25.03.2008 | Piracy is a Negotiation, not a Fight | In the blue corner we have musician Billy Bragg, who sees people like Bebo founder Michael Birch as another type of pirate, or profiteer, earning millions by leveraging other people’s intellectual property, and sharing none of it. He writes... |
| 21.03.2008 | At Launch, Mytopia Shows Social Networks How To Play Nicely Together | There is a new casual gaming network in town that’s got some serious cross-platform chops. Don’t be fooled by the cutesy graphics. Today, Mytopia is simultaneously launching across Facebook, Bebo, MySpace (currently pending approval) and it... |
| 13.03.2008 | AOL buys Bebo for $850m in cash | Time Warner’s AOL has acquired leading social media network Bebo for $850 million in cash. It seems like a good move which will supercharge AOL’s advertising reach into social networking, and immediately put the heat on Microsoft, which has... |
| 13.03.2008 | Bebo's VC makes $140 million after AOL sale | (No, that’s the not the VC, that’s the Bebo founders on holiday). As part of Bebo’s sale to AOL, Balderton Capital, the VC firm that invested less than two years ago in Bebo, is selling its 15.7 stake in the social net to AOL. It will reali... |
| 13.03.2008 | AOL Buys Bebo For $850 Million | I’m not going to say that we told you so, but we told you so.
AOL has acquired social networking site Bebo for $850 million in cash. AOL CEO Randy Falco (left in picture) sent an email to all AOL employees this morning. Allen Stern’s press ... |
| 13.03.2008 | AOL scoops up social media provider Bebo | The Time Warner division said it would acquire social media network Bebo, which is highly popular outside of the US, for about $850 million in cash.
That international draw appears to be much of the reason why AOL looked to Bebo, and it sho... |
| 20.02.2008 | Trends: Secretive New York bank Allen & Co. gets into Silicon Valley media tech | Some big social web companies have recently started working with a small New York bank called Allen & Company. It’s a secretive, family-run firm that specializes in high-level connections between investors, media executives and other po... |
| 13.02.2008 | Bebo enters the mobile platform wars | Bebo has signed a deal to to allow its 40 million plus members to produce and share content on their mobile phones. The client application will be provided by Intercasting, which provides the Anthem platform connecting mobile carriers with ... |
| 06.02.2008 | Rumor: Is Google About to Buy Bebo For $1 Billion To $1.5 Billion? Or Will it Be MySpace? | An unconfirmed rumor has surfaced that either Google or MySpace is about to announce a big $1 billion to $1.5 billion acquisition in the social space. After checking around with multiple industry sources, we’ve concluded that if the rumor i... |
| 01.02.2008 | 7digital raises $8.5M for digital media sales | 7digital is a London-based digital media store which offers music and video downloads to British customers (or anyone else who wants to pay for downloads in pence and pounds).
The company says it has about 1.1 million customers, and over th... |
| 31.01.2008 | Widgetbox Secures $8M More in Series B Funding | Widgetbox, a platform for the creation and distribution of web widgets, has raised $8M in a Series B round of financing led by Northgate Capital and joined by Sequoia Capital and Hummer Winblad.
The company provides tools for both novice an... |
| 17.01.2008 | KickApps Publishes API Kit, Adopts Facebook and OpenSocial Platform Standards | KickApps, provider of “white label” social networking functionality for existing websites, has been making strides to open up its hosted platform to both web and application developers.
Webmasters who want to integrate KickApps’ social netw... |
| 11.01.2008 | Roundup: Bebo platform opens while Facebook cracks down on apps, and more | 1. Bebo’s developer platform now open to all
2. Facebook to let you hide applications on your profile page
3. Top Israeli web companies to tour Silicon Valley
4. Fewer IPOs in Europe this past year
5. Satisfaction, a site where customers ca... |
| 10.01.2008 | Bebo's Platform Now Open for All Developers | Almost a month ago to the day, social network Bebo announced its developer platform. Or rather, a clone of Facebook’s developer platform. The idea was to copy Facebook’s platform so that developers wouldn’t have to relearn a new one and reb... |
| 09.01.2008 | ClipSyndicate Videos Now On Truveo, Bebo, Magnify, and Lingospot | Video clips from local TV news affiliates are making their way onto the Web through a service called ClipSyndicate that’s been in beta for more than a year. The service, which is owned by New York City startup Critical Media, has more than ... |
| 03.01.2008 | betNow lets you bet on almost anything from your cellphone | updated
UK’s Balderton Capital, the venture capital firm that backed companies like social network Bebo and video game developer Codemasters, is hedging its bets again: literally.
This morning, mobile betting company, betNOW, headed up by a... |
| 03.01.2008 | Will Cominded ever launch anything? | I’d just like to ask, is Cominded ever going to launch anything? The last time I asked the Web 2.0 development house late last year, they said things were still… in development. Then I emailed them a few days ago but got no reply. Who are C... |
| 21.12.2007 | Bebo’s platform growing fast, worth something? | Social network Bebo has just announced that its users have installed third-party applications 4,250,409 times since the site launched its developer platform last week.
This install number is significant, as it shows Bebo users want these ap... |
| 19.12.2007 | Bebo brings in bank, but says it’s not looking to sell | Social network Bebo recently hired a bank to help sell itself, we were told by a source. However, the San Francisco company responded to a request for comment, saying it hired the bank to help it “potentially” raise another round of funding... |
| 13.12.2007 | Bebo launches open apps platform | Bebo is opening its site to outside programmers to encourage the development of third-party applications. It’s Open Application Platform launch last night coincided with the announcement of partnerships with more than 40 developers to date ... |
| 12.12.2007 | Friendster, Bebo, LinkedIn all opening — aren’t waiting for OpenSocial | Friendster and Bebo are joining LinkedIn as the latest large social networks to throw open their web sites to outside developers.
Like Facebook, and a recent effort led by Google to do something similar with its “OpenSocial” project, these ... |
| 12.12.2007 | Bebo uses Facebook’s developer platform to tap its own user base | Updated
Social network Bebo has taken a page from Facebook. It has launched its own, full-blown developer platform that, like Facebook’s, gives third-party developers deeper access to its user data.
In fact, Facebook worked directly with Be... |
| 15.11.2007 | Bebo media deal | Online social networking Bebo has moved to boost itself further up the net ranks – it is currently number 1 in the UK, but behind MySpace and Facebook in the US – by signing on to a new media distribution platform called Open Media.
WebProN... |
| 13.11.2007 | Hyped New Platforms: Explaining the Difference Between One and the Other | Platforms here, platforms there – everyone’s launching a platform it seems. Today’s newest platforms, a content storage platform from Box.net and a content publishing platform from social network Bebo, are just the latest. Facebook, OpenSoc... |
| 13.11.2007 | Bebo offers better video distribution to media companies | Bebo, a large social network that’s especially popular in the UK, has launched a way for large media companies to deliver their videos directly within the site.
The social network will let media companies use their own video player technolo... |
| 12.11.2007 | Why Are Founders and Execs Leaving Second Tier Social Networks? | Employees generally don’t leave hot startups. They lose some or all of their stock options, and they also lose the resume value of being associated with a startup brand. And that’s doubly true for executive level employees.
When an exec lea... |
| 06.11.2007 | Piczo inks video deal in Germany | Piczo, the teenagers-focused social networking site, has entered into a partnership with MyVideo, Germany’s leading video community. Video will be served into the community and onto personal profiles, including video from popular German sho... |
| 16.10.2007 | Bebo and Ministry in joint promo | Bebo and the Ministry of Sound have entered into a marketing partnership which will mean Bebo users being able to upload their best dance mix to Bebo (via yousendit.com) with the winning entry broadcast on Ministry of Sound radio. The winne... |
| 13.10.2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 8-12 October 2007 | Sponsor:
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The week started with some big M&... |
| 12.09.2007 | Yahoo wins Bebo ad deal | Yahoo! is to handle advertising for the UK and Ireland sites of Bebo, one of the largest social networks in the world. This is the the first such deal for the portal giant which until now had failed to get an advertising foothold in the rap... |
| 06.09.2007 | 10 Micro-Blogging Tools Compared | Micro-blogging is a term described by Wikipedia as “a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be ch... |
| 04.09.2007 | MySpace: Hot or Not? | MySpace is responsible for putting social networking on the map. Despite the site’s notoriously bad design
and poor navigation, millions of people flocked to it because it provided a simple, yet powerful
way to self-express and to connect w... |
| 13.08.2007 | iYomu, social network for adults, offers chance to win $1 million | iYomu, a social network targeting adults, is offering a $1 million prize in an effort to lure users. The contest starts today.
The New Zealand-based company says that the major social networks like MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, and Hi5 are desig... |
| 30.07.2007 | How to Fix Yahoo!: Building a Yahoo! Platform | As part of our focus on Yahoo!’s next 100 days this week, I am going to dive into how I would go about fixing the company. Or at least starting along that path. According to comScore, Yahoo! is the 3rd most visited collection of web propert... |
