kara.allthingsd.com - 12/10/2008
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This morning, AOL will launch an updated look for its Bebo social networking property, with a new “social inbox” profile for its users.
The inbox, which you can see below in the old and new versions, essentially gives its users a one-stop destination, with aggregated social ...
online.wsj.com - 12/10/2008
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online.wsj.com —
In the world of social networking, it's time
for AOL's big debut, and there's a lot of...
money riding on the outcome. In March, the Time Warner unit said it would plunk down $850 million for Bebo, the No. 3 social-media Web site by unique visitors, ...
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AOL Readies High-Stakes Social-Media Debut
alleyinsider.com - 12/10/2008
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alleyinsider.com —
Time Warner subsidiary AOL will "relaunch" its third-place
social network Bebo today, reports the Wall Street Journal...
. In this case "relaunch" means Bebo gets three new features: Users can read email and instant messages from third-parties ...
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AOL "Relaunches" It's $850 Million Social Network, Bebo ...
arstechnica.com - 12/10/2008
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arstechnica.com —
AOL's betting big by relaunching the Bebo social
network it acquired for $850 million earlier this year....
It has some interesting new features, but it's getting harder to convince people to switch away from the market leaders. Read More...
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AOL relaunches promising but ill-fated Bebo social network
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News Bits: Bebo's New One-Stop Social Shop
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... , as the hub for all your social networking needs. According to All Things Digital , AOL relaunched Bebo today with a slew of new features, including a "social inbox" that will afford users a comprehensive view of all their social communications, including email, instant messaging, and multiple social feeds. Using technology that the company acquired from SocialThing, Bebo will aggregate content from multiple social networking sites, including Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, AIM, and Del.icio.us. The site is also launching with a new media recommendations engine that will ...
Around the Web 12.10.08: Yahoo layoffs underway, Sarah Palin tops Google list
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-- The Yahoo layoffs are now underway. If you're nosy, you can check out how long Yahoo will keep paying the people it cuts. Silicon Alley Insider
-- AOL retools social networking site Bebo, hoping to make it more popular in the U.S. BoomTown
-- Yahoo will close Brickhouse, which worked on new product development. TechCrunch -- Now Google digitizes magazines too. Bookstores break out their Google voodoo doll yet again. Search Engine ...
Bebo launches new homepage, its take on lifestreaming
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... The new homepage is called the “Social Inbox” and it’s apparently just the start of Bebo’s efforts. It “includes offering AOL’s various social-networking tools–such as chat rooms, news feeds and instant messaging–to be easily embedded by any Web site,” according to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. “The service will be called ‘Site Social,’ with plans to use AOL’s advertising platform to help monetize the offering.” Another new feature will be a timeline of you and your friends activities, Swisher ...
Inc.com Blogs: The New Bebo, Yahoo Layoffs, and Bailouts
Inc.com —
... $850 Million later, AOL has a plan for Bebo. Nine months after agreeing to pay nearly a billion dollars for Bebo, which is the third most popular social network, AOL has revealed what it plans to do with the site, Boomtown reports . Bebo has rolled out a bunch of new features including media recommendations and access to outside email accounts. It's hard to say whether any of this will help the site jumpstart growth, which has stagnated of late as Facebook surges. But it's safe to say that founders Xochi and Michael Birch made out like bandits. ...
AOL using AIM chat to boost Bebo, challenge Meebo
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... Details about AOL’s larger plan have been vague. But it apparently got Yahoo execs all excited when they heard about it during AOL-Yahoo merger talks, Kara Swisher has previously reported. The new service, she heard: ...
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