Posts Tagged with ‘bebo’

Today Caroline McCarthy reports that the rumors about AOL buying SocialThing have been confirmed. Frank Gruber has provided some of the background details about how the startup made its first steps and finally reached this acquisition.
SocialThing is a startup that serves as an aggregator for various online services (not many of them for now with a strange omission of regular RSS feeds). SocialThing is obviously one of the competitors to Friendfeed but even after some grudge on the launch date [...]

Do you consider your interactions on social networking sites to be private?
Amanda Hudson is suing six U.K. newspapers based on the assumption that whatever happens on Bebo (or, by extension, other social networks) should stay on Bebo after a story her 15-year-old concocted and posted to the site was picked up by several newspapers. The big problem? Hudson's daughter's story involved underaged drinking, a visit from the police, and her mother punching her, which Hudson claims never happened. That didn't [...]

For me, any day is a good day when another developer pops up with a new mobile social platform. Today is such a day, as Jibe is moving from the alpha to the closed beta testing phase.
There have been wealth of new mobile social platforms making appearances as of late. My favorite variety have been mobile social aggregators. This is largely because I have my paws in far too many social applications, and any platform [...]

It's about that time again when the internet gets tangled up with tragedy and vindictive fingers are pointed hither and thither. This instance involves the tragic suicide of a teenager who was said to have been picked on and made fun of for his "emo" appearance on teenage social network Bebo .
Young Sam Leeson, only 13-years old, hung himself from the ceiling fan in his room after being mocked time and time again for his appearance. The [...]

In the time since Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine popularized the term crowdsourcing, the 'wisdom of crowds' has been implemented in several varying ways across the web resulting in virtually eliminated “cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals.”
Digg and StumbleUpon are two examples of crowd wisdom where most of the labor is provided by the user community completely free of charge for each of the companies, though others such as CambrianHouse, iStockPhoto and Threadless compensate users/sellers through royalties and [...]

It has surely seemed as though tech pundits everywhere have been occupied with the analysis of social networks over the course of the past year almost entirely, has it not? Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and various others – in that order – that have placed themselves in webpages everywhere on an almost daily basis. It looks as though they’ve even made record showings in various physical “old media” newsprints.
So why, you must ask, do we continue to ride the main line [...]

The ad market research specialist eMarketer let loose Friday with a few numbers we thought we’d run by you. They pertain to businesses which populate the social networking space, and offer a general estimation of what to expect (for the short term) as far as future revenue for the sub-industry as a whole.
According to the firm’s reading of the next three to four years, the supply of social networks will likely draw in ad revenue somewhere in the area [...]

In late November, we shared with you some information about Classmates.com concerning the company’s then-stated intentions to be the first social Web construct to file an IPO.
Well, you can forget everything we said back then, ‘cause…uh…they changed their minds. Yes, apparently they’re not going through with it. We know, we know, quite a surprise. It would’ve been a pretty momentous spectacle, eh? Ah well, the buzz was fun while it lasted.
Wait, you’re thinking. What buzz? And “momentous spectacle?” Come [...]

Strange how social networks behave today.
Bebo, a network with a strong member base in the UK, today announced its partnership with Facebook ? yes, partnership ? through which the two competitors will engage in cross-platform cooperation in the Web application space. Cooperation with one another only.
Yes, ?tis true. The company thought for weeks to be well in pursuit of the common OpenSocial goal some dozen online entities have espoused to hold allegiance to, Bebo has now come out [...]