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.[4] Users receive a personal profile page where they can post blogs, photographs, music, videos and questionnaires 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.[1]
Bebo was founded by Michael Birch and his wife Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home in San Francisco.[1]
It was acquired by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 million.[5][6] In April 2010, AOL announced it was planning to sell or shut down Bebo,[7] with the sale being completed on June 17, 2010 to Criterion Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum.[8] It has been reported that the sale raised less than $10 million.
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 96 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
It is your life online -- a social experience that helps you discover what's going on with your world and helps the world discover what's going on with you. Bebo combines community, self-expression and entertainment, enabling you to consume, create, discover, curate and share digital content in entirely new ways. Bebo has sites all across the globe -- US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India and the Netherlands.
Take a look at our latest features:
Bebo's Social Inbox is the perfect way for you to organize all your messages in one easy-to-use inbox. The Social Inbox now features updates from Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail, and media recommendations that deliver you the most relevant online entertainment (including video, music, groups and games) into one place.
Our Lifestream Platform allows you to turn chaos into order by delivering real-time, chronological updates from all of your friends. Lifestream updates are available from your friends from Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and Delicious, with many more to come.
Bebo allows you to share your life -- past, present and future with everyone you care about through its visually striking Timeline. The Timeline provides you with an interactive display of life events in chronological order in an intuitive and easy to use display. Timelines are made up of photos, videos, stories and special events that you want to record or schedule. The Timeline is updated automatically each time you add important content to your Bebo profile or manually add a new event.
You can also access your Bebo experience through your mobile phone. This allows you to connect with friends and content while on the move. You can now send and receive SMS updates and alerts, update your Bebo profile, add photos to your gallery, send virtual gifts and access exclusive mobile content.
We're always looking for ways to improve Bebo, so if you have an idea or simply want to talk to one of our amazing team members, please contact us.
Bebo, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California.
Bebo, Inc.
425 Bush Street
Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94108
USA
The website's name is an acronym for Blog Early, Blog Often.[4] Users receive a personal profile page where they can post blogs, photographs, music, videos and questionnaires 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.[1]
Bebo was founded by Michael Birch and his wife Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home in San Francisco.[1]
It was acquired by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 million.[5][6] In April 2010, AOL announced it was planning to sell or shut down Bebo,[7] with the sale being completed on June 17, 2010 to Criterion Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum.[8] It has been reported that the sale raised less than $10 million.
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 96 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
It is your life online -- a social experience that helps you discover what's going on with your world and helps the world discover what's going on with you. Bebo combines community, self-expression and entertainment, enabling you to consume, create, discover, curate and share digital content in entirely new ways. Bebo has sites all across the globe -- US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India and the Netherlands.
Take a look at our latest features:
Bebo's Social Inbox is the perfect way for you to organize all your messages in one easy-to-use inbox. The Social Inbox now features updates from Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail, and media recommendations that deliver you the most relevant online entertainment (including video, music, groups and games) into one place.
Our Lifestream Platform allows you to turn chaos into order by delivering real-time, chronological updates from all of your friends. Lifestream updates are available from your friends from Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and Delicious, with many more to come.
Bebo allows you to share your life -- past, present and future with everyone you care about through its visually striking Timeline. The Timeline provides you with an interactive display of life events in chronological order in an intuitive and easy to use display. Timelines are made up of photos, videos, stories and special events that you want to record or schedule. The Timeline is updated automatically each time you add important content to your Bebo profile or manually add a new event.
You can also access your Bebo experience through your mobile phone. This allows you to connect with friends and content while on the move. You can now send and receive SMS updates and alerts, update your Bebo profile, add photos to your gallery, send virtual gifts and access exclusive mobile content.
We're always looking for ways to improve Bebo, so if you have an idea or simply want to talk to one of our amazing team members, please contact us.
Bebo, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California.
Bebo, Inc.
425 Bush Street
Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94108
USA