6 Predictions for Social Networks in 2011 The past year was an eventful one for the world of social networking. Facebook went on an acquisition spree. Twitter started growing up. And MySpace? Well it's the same... January 13, 2011 by Ben Parr Like Tweet +1
AOL Acquires Thing Labs and Brizzly What do former Googler Jason Shellen, video website 5min and TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington have in common? All three parties announced AOL acquisition deals this week.... January 21, 2011 by Jolie O'Dell Like Tweet +1
Why Is the Co-creator of Xbox Joining Bebo? Kevin Bachus, best known as one of the co-creators of Microsoft's Xbox, has joined Bebo as its new Chief Product Officer. The move comes just three months after AOL sold... January 21, 2011 by Ben Parr Like Tweet +1
It's Official: AOL Sells Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners Yesterday we broke the news that AOL had sold social network Bebo, later confirming from sources that the buyer is hedge fund Criterion Capital Partners. AOL officially... January 21, 2011 by Stan Schroeder Like Tweet +1
AOL Has Sold Bebo AOL has found a buyer for struggling social network Bebo, we are hearing from sources close to the deal. The Internet company has been publicly looking for an acquirer for... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
UK Postman Admits to Using Facebook and Bebo to Abuse Hundreds of Children A UK postman admitted to using Facebook and Bebo to abuse "hundreds" of children in a case that included 27 sexual abuse charges. Michael Williams, a 28-year-old from... January 21, 2011 by Vadim Lavrusik Like Tweet +1
AOL's $850 Million Mistake: Bebo to be Shut Down or Sold Just two years after acquiring social network Bebo for $850 million, the newly-independent AOL has decided to abandon its social networking investment, either by selling... January 21, 2011 by Ben Parr Like Tweet +1
Former Bebo CEO Joins Facebook Facebook has just landed a big hire as it continues to expand its business around the globe: former Bebo CEO Joanna Shields. According to The Wall Street Journal, Shields... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
PayPal and Bebo Founders Invest in Mixpanel Mixpanel, a real-time web analytics and analysis service for understanding how users behave with web apps, has just announced a $500,000 angel investment round coming from... January 21, 2011 by Ben Parr Like Tweet +1
AOL Looks to Sell Bebo and ICQ In the days following AOL's relaunch as a separate company, CEO Tim Armstrong is already looking to jettison some of its properties that take away from its new focus as a... January 21, 2011 by Christina Warren Like Tweet +1
Bebo's Abuse Button: Should Facebook and MySpace Follow Suit? Social network Bebo which has seen a rapid decline in popularity but is still one of the biggest such services around, has added a tiny but important new feature: a button... January 21, 2011 by Stan Schroeder Like Tweet +1
STATS: Facebook and Twitter's Growth Flattens Throughout the entire 2008 and the better part of 2009, we've reported on Facebook and Twitter's explosive growth. Month after month, we've seen tremendous numbers from... January 21, 2011 by Stan Schroeder Like Tweet +1
FOR SALE: Friends Reunited, 91% Discount Ah, those bothersome impulse buys....like that time you spontaneously snapped up a social network for £175 millon, only to be found negotiating a sale for a mere £15... January 21, 2011 by Frederick Townes Like Tweet +1
As AOL-Time Warner Dissolves, a Social Media Juggernaut Sleeps This news has been a long time coming, but now it’s an all but certainty: Time Warner and AOL, who joined forces in a $164 billion deal in 2000, are going their separate... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
The Fastest Growing Social Sites Each month (and often more frequently than that) we take a look at trends in social networking, by the numbers. Recently, we’ve focused on Twitter’s astronomical growth -... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
The New Bebo: 50 Percent Growth in One Month In late February, Bebo debuted a major redesign, complete with integration of SocialThing – another AOL purchase. They also recently started porting AIM profiles over to... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
Bebo Wants to Be Your Social Aggregator We’ve noted Facebook’s gradual crawl into the realm of lifestreaming – showing friends' activities from outside services like YouTube, Flickr, and Delicious in your News... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
The Top 20 Social Networks of 2008 We’ve shared a lot of numbers recently, from Twitter’s robust growth to Facebook’s chase of MySpace for the title of most popular social network (in the US). Now, we’ve... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
Post-AOL Bebo: Aggregation, IM, and Multimedia Bebo is launching a major redesign of its user homepages this morning, its first since being acquired by AOL for $850 million earlier this year. The changes give us some... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
Zynga Launches the Ultimate Time Waster: Live Poker for the iPhone Luckily, I don't play poker. It's one in the long list of addictions I've been lucky not to get infected with over the years. But if I did, I'd be all over Zynga's new... January 21, 2011 by Stan Schroeder Like Tweet +1
Plan Your Social Life on Facebook and Bebo Using SocialCalendar (The Startup Review) Company SocialCalendar 20-Word Description People use SocialCalendar to get their social life together - birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, get-togethers, other social... January 21, 2011 by Doriano "Paisano" Carta Like Tweet +1
Cyberbullying Will Stop When Adults Level With Their Kids Were you bullied in school or out of school by classmates or students from warring institutions? Would you tell a parent or guardian about it? Some of you would answer... January 21, 2011 by Paul Glazowski Like Tweet +1
Facebook Applications Now Portable to Friendster's Developer Platform Friendster might not be the first name in social networking in the US, but in Asia it’s the dominant player in many countries, with a userbase totaling more than 60... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
Bebo IM Was Removed Days Ago and Nobody Seems to Care If the feelings of the most outspoken Bebo users are any indication, Bebo IM, the relative equivalent to Facebook Chat, has few fans. Very few. What was introduced nearly... January 21, 2011 by Paul Glazowski Like Tweet +1
Bebo Puts Open Media Platform to Use Through ESPN Deal Remember Bebo's open media platform initiative? In short, it means that Bebo users can include premium music and video content in their profiles. At launch, Bebo had a... January 21, 2011 by Stan Schroeder Like Tweet +1
Bebo is Forcibly Changing Usernames I first saw it over in a post by Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim, but in the post he lays the tracks to a whole epidemic of unauthorized name changes by top social... January 21, 2011 by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins Like Tweet +1
Bebo IM Debuts, and Users Are Grumpy If it’s Bebo that you prefer to the larger social networks of the world, but want to enjoy the equivalent of Facebook Chat within your own friendly circle, how’s this.... January 21, 2011 by Paul Glazowski Like Tweet +1
Bebo and Vogue.TV to Air New Fashion-Focused Web Series A new series called Model.Live is debuting this week on Bebo (see here). As you may have guessed, the show is about models. Produced by IMG Media and Vogue.TV, this... January 21, 2011 by Kristen Nicole Like Tweet +1
AOL Acquires Lifestreaming Service Socialthing In a move that aims at shoring up AOL's stable of social networks, the company announced today that it has acquired Socialthing!, pending the satisfaction of certain... January 21, 2011 by Don Reisinger Like Tweet +1
AOL Offers “Guaranteed” Ad Rates for Facebook and Bebo Apps AOL is upping the ante in an effort to get more application developers on Facebook and Bebo using its WIDGNET advertising network. The company has announced that it will... January 21, 2011 by Adam Ostrow Like Tweet +1
