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'''Bebo''' is a [[Social network service|social networking]] website launched in July [[2005]]. It is currently owned by Criterion Capital Partners. |
'''Bebo''' is a [[Social network service|social networking]] website launched in July [[2005]]. It is currently owned by Criterion Capital Partners. |
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| accessdate = 2008-09-20}}</ref> Users receive a personal profile page where they can post [[blog]]s, [[photograph]]s, [[music]], [[video]]s and [[questionnaire]]s to which other users may answer. Additionally, users may add others as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.<ref name = "Michael and Xochi Birch">{{cite news |
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{{| revenue = | Bebo is a social networking website launched in July 2005. It is currently owned by Criterion Capital Partners.
The website's name is an acronym for Blog Early, Blog Often. [1]
bebo sucks
It was acquired by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 million. [2] [3] In April 2010, AOL announced it was planning to sell or shut down Bebo, [4] with the sale being completed on June 17, 2010 to Criterion Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. [5] It has been reported that the sale raised less than $10 million. [6]
Profiles
Bebo is similar to other social networking sites. Each profile must include two specific modules, a comment section where other users can leave a message, and a list of the user's friends. Users can select from many more modules to add. By default, when an account is created the profile is private, which limits access to friends specifically added. The user may select the "Public Profile" option so as the profile will still be visible to any other members of a school they may have joined. Profiles may be personalized by a design template that is the background of the user's profile, known as a skin.
Profiles may include quizzes which offer multiple choice, polls for their friends to vote in and comment on, photo albums which allows the user to upload an unlimited number of images with a maximum limit of 48 per album, blogs with a comments section, a list of bands of which the user is a fan, a list of groups that the user is a member of. A 'Video Box' may be added, either hot-linked from YouTube, uploaded directly to Bebo's servers via Motionbox or copied from a Bebo Media Content Provider's page.
Members can view the recent changes friends have made to their homepage from the 'Home' menu. These changes can include uploaded photos, updated flashboxes and newly added videos and friends. A friend's updates to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other services can also be viewed, if those friends have linked those accounts to their Bebo profile. Users can now see who has visited their profile from the home menu, a user can choose to browse privately allowing them not to be seen
Bebo Authors
On February 22, 2007, Bebo Authors, also known as Bebo Books, was launched. On this section of the site, authors can upload chapters of their books and also get them reviewed with a certain module. Currently there is no module to display books on a profile page like there is for Bands and Groups.
Bebo Groups
On July 10, 2007, the "Group" module was added to pages. This enabled people to view groups which were previously joined to a school and were also viewable only to school members. Bebo also gave an option to convert existing Authors or Bands to Groups. This conversion takes up to 24 hours as the profile must be manually changed by a member of Bebo staff. Group pages give users an option to join things they find interesting. These groups can often be educational as well as associated with Big Brother UK 2008. [7]
Integration with instant messaging
Users can add their AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Skype and Windows Live Messenger user names to their Bebo profile. For Skype and Windows Live Messenger Bebo offers links to quickly chat or add that user in that program. The Windows Live Messenger links show up only in Internet Explorer by default, as it uses the 'msnim' protocol. They can be used in another web browser such as Firefox or Opera by masking the user agent as Internet Explorer and using a tool called the WLM Protocol Handler to handle the msnim protocol. Using the AIM links to contact someone opens up a Web AIM client. Bebo also offers a co-branded AIM downloadable client.
Bebo Open Media Platform
Announced on the November 13, 2007, Bebo Open Media Platform is a platform for companies to distribute content to the Bebo community. Content providers can bring their media player to Bebo, and monetize the advertising within it. Each content provider has a specialised page designed for video which showcases any Adobe Flash video content at the top of the profile. Many networks are signed up for the service, including CBS, Sky, Ustream.tv, BBC and Last.fm.
Open application platform
On November 1, 2007, Bebo announced that it would join OpenSocial, a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. It announced plans for a developers platform and said it will make a further platform announcement. Bebo's Open Application Platform was launched in early December 2007 with just over fifty applications and is now host to hundreds.
Many members disliked the new applications created with the profile and asked Bebo to remove them. [8] One of the main complaints was it made it easy for application developers to provide a way for members to send invites to all their friends on Bebo and many applications encouraged users to do so. A poll was held on the Bebo developers page and had a majority against apps. [9]
Privacy and security
Bebo offers three privacy levels: public, private and fully private. Public profiles can be seen by any user, except that profiles of users younger than sixteen years old are seen only by logged in users. Private profiles are seen only by their friends and members of any school or college they have joined. Fully private profiles are ones that have not joined any school and so only their direct friends can view their profile. If a user chooses the 'Public' option, they can also set age restrictions on who can contact them. Age restrictions do not apply to direct friends. Bebo also allows a user to set their photos to private, so only friends can see them and can stop others from copying them too.
Inadvertent privacy breach by New Zealand ISP
On May 21, 2008 some users in New Zealand were temporarily given full access to other users' accounts. [10] Various users logged in under their own account were switched over to the accounts of other users at random intervals, some people gaining access to over 20 different users' accounts. People were sometimes given access to addresses and phone numbers of other members, and some took advantage of the situation by uploading pornography onto other members' accounts. [11] Bebo network engineers traced the error to a mis-configured proxy server in an Internet service provider (ISP) in New Zealand, which was later fixed. The ISP seemed to be interfering with its cache, thereby causing some of its customers to receive cached cookies and details from other users, likely because the ISP used dynamic IP addresses.
Current activity
On April 7, 2010, AOL announced that they were planning to sell the website. [12] This was mainly due to the falling numbers of unique users, Bebo users were moving to the growing Facebook and to Twitter.
On June 16, 2010, it was reported that AOL had sold Bebo to hedge fund operators Criterion Capital Partners. [13] The purchase was confirmed [14] on June 17, 2010.
On February 17, 2011, Bebo launched a brand new design. This consisted of a new more modern Header, a new more modernized Home page and a New Profile Layout Option. Further, users can now see who has visited their profiles (a feature which can be changed in settings). Bebo is slowly being updated to compete with other social networks.[ citation needed]
See also
References
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^ Butcher, Mike.
"AOL buys Bebo for $850m in cash". London:
The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
{{ cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=( help) - ^ "AOL acquires Bebo social network". BBC News. March 13, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ "AOL to 'supercharge' Bebo revenues". Financial Times. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ Letzing, John (2010-04-06). "AOL pulls plug on Bebo social networking effort". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-04-06.
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^
"Bebo sold by AOL after just two years".
BBC News. 12:16 GMT, Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:16 UK. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
{{ cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=( help) - ^ "AOL Sells Bebo to Criterion for Less Than $10 Million". Bloomberg Businessweek. 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
- ^ "Group Surf".
- ^ "A group petitioning for the removal of Bebo Apps".
- ^ "Poll on apps at the Bebo official page".
- ^ "Glitch opens Bebo users' private details to others".
- ^ "Bebo's HUGE error".
- ^ AOL planning to sell Bebo
- ^ AOL To Sell Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners
- ^ Criterion Capital Partners Acquires Bebo from AOL
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{{infobox dotcom company |
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| company_name = Bebo, Inc. |
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| company_logo = [[Image:Bebo logo.svg|200px]] |
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| company_type = [[Privately held company|Private]] |
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| foundation = {{Start date|2005|01|df=y}}<ref name = "Michael and Xochi Birch"/> |
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| founder = [[Michael Birch (businessman)|Michael Birch]] <br /> Xochi Birch |
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| location = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], [[United States]] |
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| locations = |
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| area_served = [[World]]wide |
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| key_people = Adam Levin<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/13/meet-the-new-bebo/|title=Meet the New Bebo|date=2010-07-13|publisher=''[[Wall Street Journal]]''|accessdate=2010-07-14 | first=Ben | last=Worthen}}</ref> ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]]) |
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| services = |
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| sexuality = |
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| market cap = |
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| alexa = {{increase}} 2,148 (April 2011)<ref>{{Cite document |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bebo.com |title=Bebo.com – Traffic Details from Alexa |publisher=[[Alexa Internet]], Inc |accessdate=2011-02-08 |postscript=<!--None--> }}</ref> |
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| screenshot = [[File:BeboHomepage.PNG|center|200px]] |
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| caption = Bebo homepage as of April 2011 |
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| website_type = [[Social network service]] |
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| language = [[Multilingual]] |
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| advertising = [[Banner ads]] |
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| registration = Required |
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| launch_date = {{Start date|2005|07|df=y}} |
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| current_status = Active |
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'''Bebo''' is a [[Social network service|social networking]] website launched in July [[2005]]. It is currently owned by Criterion Capital Partners. |
'''Bebo''' is a [[Social network service|social networking]] website launched in July [[2005]]. It is currently owned by Criterion Capital Partners. |
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| publisher = [[TechCrunch]] |
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| accessdate = 2008-09-20}}</ref> Users receive a personal profile page where they can post [[blog]]s, [[photograph]]s, [[music]], [[video]]s and [[questionnaire]]s to which other users may answer. Additionally, users may add others as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.<ref name = "Michael and Xochi Birch">{{cite news |
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| url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/nov/04/socialnetworking.web20 |
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| title = Bebo, Michael and Xochi Birch |
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| author = Burkeman, Oliver |
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| date = 2006-11-04 |
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bebo sucks |
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Bebo was founded by [[Michael Birch (businessman)|Michael Birch]] and his wife Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home in [[San Francisco]].<ref name = "Michael and Xochi Birch"/> |
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It was acquired by [[AOL]] on March 13, 2008 for $850 million.<ref>{{cite news |
It was acquired by [[AOL]] on March 13, 2008 for $850 million.<ref>{{cite news |
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Revision as of 12:26, 10 April 2011
{{| revenue = | Bebo is a social networking website launched in July 2005. It is currently owned by Criterion Capital Partners.
The website's name is an acronym for Blog Early, Blog Often. [1]
bebo sucks
It was acquired by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 million. [2] [3] In April 2010, AOL announced it was planning to sell or shut down Bebo, [4] with the sale being completed on June 17, 2010 to Criterion Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. [5] It has been reported that the sale raised less than $10 million. [6]
Profiles
Bebo is similar to other social networking sites. Each profile must include two specific modules, a comment section where other users can leave a message, and a list of the user's friends. Users can select from many more modules to add. By default, when an account is created the profile is private, which limits access to friends specifically added. The user may select the "Public Profile" option so as the profile will still be visible to any other members of a school they may have joined. Profiles may be personalized by a design template that is the background of the user's profile, known as a skin.
Profiles may include quizzes which offer multiple choice, polls for their friends to vote in and comment on, photo albums which allows the user to upload an unlimited number of images with a maximum limit of 48 per album, blogs with a comments section, a list of bands of which the user is a fan, a list of groups that the user is a member of. A 'Video Box' may be added, either hot-linked from YouTube, uploaded directly to Bebo's servers via Motionbox or copied from a Bebo Media Content Provider's page.
Members can view the recent changes friends have made to their homepage from the 'Home' menu. These changes can include uploaded photos, updated flashboxes and newly added videos and friends. A friend's updates to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other services can also be viewed, if those friends have linked those accounts to their Bebo profile. Users can now see who has visited their profile from the home menu, a user can choose to browse privately allowing them not to be seen
Bebo Authors
On February 22, 2007, Bebo Authors, also known as Bebo Books, was launched. On this section of the site, authors can upload chapters of their books and also get them reviewed with a certain module. Currently there is no module to display books on a profile page like there is for Bands and Groups.
Bebo Groups
On July 10, 2007, the "Group" module was added to pages. This enabled people to view groups which were previously joined to a school and were also viewable only to school members. Bebo also gave an option to convert existing Authors or Bands to Groups. This conversion takes up to 24 hours as the profile must be manually changed by a member of Bebo staff. Group pages give users an option to join things they find interesting. These groups can often be educational as well as associated with Big Brother UK 2008. [7]
Integration with instant messaging
Users can add their AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Skype and Windows Live Messenger user names to their Bebo profile. For Skype and Windows Live Messenger Bebo offers links to quickly chat or add that user in that program. The Windows Live Messenger links show up only in Internet Explorer by default, as it uses the 'msnim' protocol. They can be used in another web browser such as Firefox or Opera by masking the user agent as Internet Explorer and using a tool called the WLM Protocol Handler to handle the msnim protocol. Using the AIM links to contact someone opens up a Web AIM client. Bebo also offers a co-branded AIM downloadable client.
Bebo Open Media Platform
Announced on the November 13, 2007, Bebo Open Media Platform is a platform for companies to distribute content to the Bebo community. Content providers can bring their media player to Bebo, and monetize the advertising within it. Each content provider has a specialised page designed for video which showcases any Adobe Flash video content at the top of the profile. Many networks are signed up for the service, including CBS, Sky, Ustream.tv, BBC and Last.fm.
Open application platform
On November 1, 2007, Bebo announced that it would join OpenSocial, a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. It announced plans for a developers platform and said it will make a further platform announcement. Bebo's Open Application Platform was launched in early December 2007 with just over fifty applications and is now host to hundreds.
Many members disliked the new applications created with the profile and asked Bebo to remove them. [8] One of the main complaints was it made it easy for application developers to provide a way for members to send invites to all their friends on Bebo and many applications encouraged users to do so. A poll was held on the Bebo developers page and had a majority against apps. [9]
Privacy and security
Bebo offers three privacy levels: public, private and fully private. Public profiles can be seen by any user, except that profiles of users younger than sixteen years old are seen only by logged in users. Private profiles are seen only by their friends and members of any school or college they have joined. Fully private profiles are ones that have not joined any school and so only their direct friends can view their profile. If a user chooses the 'Public' option, they can also set age restrictions on who can contact them. Age restrictions do not apply to direct friends. Bebo also allows a user to set their photos to private, so only friends can see them and can stop others from copying them too.
Inadvertent privacy breach by New Zealand ISP
On May 21, 2008 some users in New Zealand were temporarily given full access to other users' accounts. [10] Various users logged in under their own account were switched over to the accounts of other users at random intervals, some people gaining access to over 20 different users' accounts. People were sometimes given access to addresses and phone numbers of other members, and some took advantage of the situation by uploading pornography onto other members' accounts. [11] Bebo network engineers traced the error to a mis-configured proxy server in an Internet service provider (ISP) in New Zealand, which was later fixed. The ISP seemed to be interfering with its cache, thereby causing some of its customers to receive cached cookies and details from other users, likely because the ISP used dynamic IP addresses.
Current activity
On April 7, 2010, AOL announced that they were planning to sell the website. [12] This was mainly due to the falling numbers of unique users, Bebo users were moving to the growing Facebook and to Twitter.
On June 16, 2010, it was reported that AOL had sold Bebo to hedge fund operators Criterion Capital Partners. [13] The purchase was confirmed [14] on June 17, 2010.
On February 17, 2011, Bebo launched a brand new design. This consisted of a new more modern Header, a new more modernized Home page and a New Profile Layout Option. Further, users can now see who has visited their profiles (a feature which can be changed in settings). Bebo is slowly being updated to compete with other social networks.[ citation needed]
See also
References
-
^ Butcher, Mike.
"AOL buys Bebo for $850m in cash". London:
The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
{{ cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=( help) - ^ "AOL acquires Bebo social network". BBC News. March 13, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ "AOL to 'supercharge' Bebo revenues". Financial Times. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ Letzing, John (2010-04-06). "AOL pulls plug on Bebo social networking effort". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-04-06.
-
^
"Bebo sold by AOL after just two years".
BBC News. 12:16 GMT, Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:16 UK. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
{{ cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=( help) - ^ "AOL Sells Bebo to Criterion for Less Than $10 Million". Bloomberg Businessweek. 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
- ^ "Group Surf".
- ^ "A group petitioning for the removal of Bebo Apps".
- ^ "Poll on apps at the Bebo official page".
- ^ "Glitch opens Bebo users' private details to others".
- ^ "Bebo's HUGE error".
- ^ AOL planning to sell Bebo
- ^ AOL To Sell Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners
- ^ Criterion Capital Partners Acquires Bebo from AOL
External links