Posts Tagged with ‘bebo’

There’s growing discontent over the closed, “walled garden”-like approach to the development of social networks today. Every such website, after all, has its own system, its own way of operating, which often varies considerably from competitors across the industry. Few, if any, mesh with one another. This has come to be seen as a significant problem by some “cross-pollinators”: people who have chosen to take up residence in multiple circles structured within disparate networks. Because barriers have been put in [...]

Oh, the horror! Say it ain’t so!
It’s so. No longer the dominant social network of the US and UK, MySpace relinquished its crown to Bebo in July 2007 (at least in the Kingdom), which claimed an advantage of roughly 600,000 unique visitors over R. Murdoch’s own Web-based social phenom. ComScore, the source of the latest figures, has stated that Bebo ended the first month-long stretch of Q3 with 10.7 million uniques, landing atop MySpace’s 10.1 million for the first time. [...]

Yesterday Microsoft began testing a new dashboard view for its Windows Live services. Windows users can now view new emails, blog postings; contact updates or use other Microsoft services including antivirus and spyware scans. Microsoft is attempting to further engage the over 300 million Windows Live users to compete with Google and Yahoo in the Internet advertising race. But my question is why is Microsoft always playing catch up?
Chris Jones VP of the Windows Live group told Reuters: “It is a [...]

One of the coolest things about all the new service sites is that they seem to have led to the development of an entire field of cottage industries around them. Some are businesses extending their reach by using Web 2.0 companies, while others are all-new businesses that have sprung up, and still others stumble upon a money-making opportunity using 2.0 they hadn't anticipated.
File Blendtec under the last category. The commercial blender company, based in Orem, Utah, has just 186 employees, [...]

Truemor: What Google is *really* planning for 2008. Okay, the rumor starts here(my theory, doh)… Short version: elgoog (Google) is planning to launch the world's largest social networking site 'overnight' and at the flick of a switch and will become the Mitsubishi of the internet.
Huh? Exactly. Let me explain… while Yahoo! and others continue to explore acquisitions in the social networking space (e.g. Bebo et al), and the “buy-me-I'm-Facebook” dance continues, stop and ask yourself a question: having already built or acquired [...]

In a piece published yesterday here on Profy, we mentioned Apple?s curious shift toward acceptance of Web app development, if only to appease the wolves in the third-party universe eager to make themselves at home on the iPhone platform. In short, Mr Jobs told the world of Web 2.0 to get coding, because they now have a chance to get their feet in what could be a very big door before even so much as a morsel of an [...]

Spring fever is out in full force in the Valley, and the contagion is cash. Lots of cash.
The last few weeks were filled with news of buyouts followed by, oh yes, more buyouts. Google nabbed DoubleClick; MySpace purchased Photobucket; Microsoft bought…well, lots of companies, really, not the least of which was aQuantive, which was dubbed an historic $6bn (historic because it’s the most Microsoft has every paid for an established entity) buyout for the software giant. The list goes [...]

As if we don’t have enough already.
It’s fine if there are half a dozen big name social networks scattered across the Net. Twelve big- and medium-sized entities, maybe. A few more than that is pushing it. But there are many, many more than that currently in existence, with a good supply still in the works. Familiar with the word “overabundance”? That’s what we’ve got on our hands right now, and there’s no end in sight.
So you’ll have to forgive the [...]

Bebo outranked Google, but does the fate of Web 2.0 hinge on numbers?
Web 2.0 is such an interesting subject for discussion and investigation. Lately I have been a little focused on some credibility issues we should all consider in evaluating sites, startups and other elements of our communal experience.
One big problem I have is the term "unique registered users", because it implies that a site has say 300,000 dedicated regular people who go there. Sites often try to validate [...]