Posts Tagged with ‘bebo’

Mark Zuckerberg, beware.
So some members of the press are saying, anyway. Just days ago, Google laid its social networking plans out on the proverbial table, which it has called OpenSocial, and in doing so received quite rapturous applause. OpenSocial delineated a future in which multiple entities, many of which have already been known to spar with one another in the highly competitive forum that is the technology world?s social sphere, battle for greater shares on a more level, more [...]

Google’s finally let the cat out of the bag.
The company announced yesterday its intentions to create a project, dubbed OpenSocial (corresponding webpage is not active yet; Nov 1 is lauch day), very basically described to be a set of APIs, that will allow multiple platforms on the Web to play by a “universally” accepted common set of laws that will enable developers the option to “create applications that work on any social networks…that choose to participate.”
The reasoning for the [...]

Well, it’s happened. Microsoft has made its investment in Facebook. 240 million bucks’ worth.
That translates to about a 1.6% stake for MSFT in the popular social network – if the $15 billion valuation of the company is anything of a solid number. Yes, Redmond’s got 1.6%, and Google and Yahoo! have: 0. Booyah, Larry, Serg, and Yang! Gates’ gang so showed you guys up.
Or something like that. Today, The New York Times report on the news opened with [...]

The launch of the Facebook Platform led to a massive increase in Facebook's user base, not to mention a slew of applications that developers are hoping will manage to generate some kind of revenue.
Since that launch, several other social networks, such as MySpace, Bebo and LinkedIn, have kept a watchful eye, with some making plans for their own development platforms.
Today, Hi5 looks to be the next social network to follow the example that Facebook has set, with their [...]

On Friday we got a rather exclusive look at Zude's upcoming public release for this week. This year's most promising social computing platform has beefed up everything from server capacity to social reach for this launch. Zude helps people develop their own dynamic websites without any programming or HTML skills. Anyone from Coders and Geeks to Grandma's and children can now use cross-domain drag and drop to build very compelling sites.
I covered Zude for ReadWriteWeb back in June [...]

The massive popularity of the top social networks (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, etc.) has led to more social networks on the web than most people even know about.
Although there is no "openness" between social networks as of now, DigFoot is out to at least keep track of all those social networks with a categorized directory.
DigFoot even has its own social aspects that allows users to rate and review networks so that other users can best pick what social networks they would [...]

There’s Facebook, there’s MySpace, and then there’s Bebo.
A hit in the eastern end of the western world (I don’t believe that’s entirely politically correct to say, but I’ll say it anyhow) Bebo is a social network dominant in a region where euros and quid are the currencies of choice – and a quickly growing and expanding one, at that.
It has already managed to nearly equal the #2 social network in the world (Facebook) in terms of the sum of [...]

The latest news from Silicon Valley is that key investors appear to be redirecting their focus. VC entrepreneurs have shoveled untold millions into startups that target primarily teenagers and younger demographics on social networks. Was this a well thought out investment strategy for the long term? I have said many times before that the “numbers” game of MySpace, Bebo, Digg and others is really reflective of migratory users within the same visitor matrix. Here is why I think MySpace, Facebook [...]

Multiply is a Florida-based social network targeted towards an older audience than Facebook and MySpace. It has been around since 2003, but has struggled to become as popular as some of its competition.
2007 has proved to be the most successful year so far for Multiply, which saw more than 10 million visitors in August, a number that is rising by 10% per month. Chief executive Peter Pezaris has even claimed that unique visitors to the site have doubled since Multiply's [...]