By: Social Deluge | b r a n t s

Social Deluge | b r a n t s — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:20:33 +0000

[...] AOL recently said that it was confident about Bebo doing well in the long run, and was for now, concentrating on getting users, more than revenue. In an interview with Paid Content, Joanna Shields, President, AOL People Networks, talked about the AIM client based strategy that gives it a wider reach than say, a Facebook. By aggregating feeds from various networks onto AIM, AOL allows people to be connected with friends’ activities in sites like Flickr, Twitter etc, even without them being on it. Bebo has been busy with quite a few things recently – Lifestream – a basic Friendfeed like aggregator; Social Discovery Engine – which leverages profile data to recommend related music, videos and people; Lifestory – puts uploaded photos, events, and (soon) videos into a scrollable, chronological series of postage stamp icons at the top of members’ profile pages. In the long run, Bebo is also planning to allow its users to subscribe to updates from other users, brands, bands, and celebrities, whose updates will then appear in their LifeStory timelines. (via TechCrunch) This could provide revenue opportunities. [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:37:39 +0000

AOL forced Bebo down users throats this week..and took away the users AIM profiles..the message boards and blogs are ripping AOL apart for the BEBO crap..AOL paid 850 million for BEBO and will lose 8.5 million AOL “paying” customers for this BEBO CRAP

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