Bebo

From IndiaSocial

Bebo, which stands for "Blog Early, Blog Often" was started in January 2005 and was bought by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 m. Initially, it was founded by husband and wife Michael and Xochi Birch.

Bebo, however has no specifically unique features and is almost the same as any other social networking website available today.On November 1, 2007, Bebo announced plans to join OpenSocial. The Open Application Platform was then launched in early December 2007 with some fifty applications and currently hosts some hundreds.

Bebo, as per se, receives 22 million unique visitors with 11 billion page views and now reaches more than 6.1 million people alone in the US." Social Media Statistics

Features

• Users have a freehand in selecting from varied modules.
• Users have an option of both, going private or having a public profile. The profiles can also be personalized by changing the skins.
• Users can upload images; add videos, blog, add groups etc. Recent changes my friends can also be seen. If linked to Bebo, a friend's updates to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other services can also be viewed.
• Social Inbox is where you organize every message in one easy-to-use inbox. You can have updates from Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail.
• The visually attractive Lifestory tools enable the users with an interactive display of life events in chronological order where you can use the timeline. You can add up photos, videos, stories and special events.
• Bebo is also available over your mobile phone.

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