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• Bebo London Office (Video)

  Published: August 4, 2007, 4:49 am

  Tags: Social Networking, Social Software, Bebo

  Bebo has a surprisingly small UK office for a company that’s so popular with Brits. This one is used mainly for deal making, it seems, while the San Francisco office is where the web development happens. The video, below, gives us a tour (credit to Boomtown). Speculation remains about whether some needy big web co like Yahoo might want

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• Six points for organisations entering the Live Web

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Business, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Business Blogging, Ewan Mcintosh, Advice, Bebo, Bizblogging, Blogging, Business, Consultant, Facebook, Marketing, Profit, Roi, Social Media, Vlogging, Youtube

  What are the points worth bearing in mind if you are a medium or large organisation about to try out some new things on the Live Web? Here are my updated thoughts from over the last six months. Increasingly, business in Scotland is seeing the potential that social media can bring to extend messages, connect better with customers, communicate

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• Social Networks: The Trend That's Here To Stay

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: News, Bebo, Conscore, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, Myspace, Social Networks, Web Sites

  MySpace, Hi5, Facebook, Bebo, Orkut and tagged. The numbers of users daily and unique users to the sites were compared to last year’s numbers. MySpace still holds the lead with over 114 million unique users in June up 72% over lat June’s 66 million. However, Tagged.com gets the prize for fastest growing site with an unfathomable

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• WeShow Launches Multi-Channel Video Widget

  Published: August 9, 2007, 7:26 pm

  Tags: Bebo, Web2 0 Startups

  WeShow, the human-powered video aggregator, is launching a multi-channel video widget. Read our initial review of WeShow here. The widget is easy enough to create. Add your own title, choose between a vertical or horizontal orientation, select from a handful of colors, and pick your video content. You can add video clips from all of

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• BLC07 McIntosh No.2: How Public Is Your Public Body?

  Published: August 11, 2007, 11:17 am

  Tags: Audience, Blc07, Communication Tools, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Channel 4, How Public Your Public Body, Matt Locke, November Learning, Bebo, Blc07, Education, Facebook, Myspace, Privacy, Private, Public, Scotlearnfest07

  Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, etc Publishing SpacesExamples: Flickr, Youtube, Revver, etc Performing SpacesExamples: MMORPGs, Sports, Drama Participation SpacesExamples: Meetup, Threadless, CambrianHouse.com, MySociety Watching SpacesExamples: Television, Cinema, Sports, Theatre, etc Now, try adding all those

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• 1000Keyboards Is YouTube for Authors

  Published: August 12, 2007, 4:16 pm

  Tags: Social Networking, Bebo, Web2 0 Startups, Thelongtail

  1000Keyboards is a site for readers and writers of short stories. This is a community where you can submit your short story to the community and receive feedback, similar to a YouTube for authors. All submissions must be between 800 and 1000 words, to ensure that all stories on the site are indeed considered short stories. There are no privacy

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• UK and Irish schools need to educate, not ban, now

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:42 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Ltsfutures, Rss, Safety, Security, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Digital Literacy, Internet Safety, Bebo, Facebook, Literacy, Safety

  the teen social network, Bebo is set to see a similar explosion in the number of users and the amount of use - more, perhaps, than the current 41 minutes of time spent each night by the average UK teen. The ultimate aim, to keep Bebo alive. But there's a huge difference between Bebo and Facebook that makes this move smell a little fishy:

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• UK and Irish schools need to educate, not ban, now

  Published: August 13, 2007, 2:47 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Ltsfutures, Rss, Safety, Security, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Digital Literacy, Internet Safety, Bebo, Facebook, Literacy, Safety

  the teen social network, Bebo is set to see a similar explosion in the number of users and the amount of use - more, perhaps, than the current 41 minutes of time spent each night by the average UK teen. The ultimate aim, to keep Bebo alive. But there's a huge difference between Bebo and Facebook that makes this move smell a little fishy: the

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• BLC07 McIntosh No.2: How Public Is Your Public Body?

  Published: August 11, 2007, 7:37 am

  Tags: Audience, Blc07, Communication Tools, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Channel 4, How Public Your Public Body, Matt Locke, November Learning, Bebo, Blc07, Education, Facebook, Myspace, Privacy, Private, Public, Scotlearnfest07

  Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, etc Publishing SpacesExamples: Flickr, Youtube, Revver, etc Performing SpacesExamples: MMORPGs, Sports, Drama Participation SpacesExamples: Meetup, Threadless, CambrianHouse.com, MySociety Watching SpacesExamples: Television, Cinema, Sports, Theatre, etc Now, try adding all those elements you wished

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• Bebo Overtakes MySpace in the UK

  Published: August 14, 2007, 5:32 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Bebo, Myspace

  and especially in the UK. Bebo, the UK-based social network, has overtaken MySpace to become the largest social network in the land. According to comScore’s July report, Bebo has 10.7 million unique users, compared to MySpace’s 10.1 million unique users, in addition to being the most visited social network in the UK. Gaining

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• MobyPicture Adds Twitter & Flickr Auto-Posting

  Published: August 15, 2007, 8:09 pm

  Tags: Twitter, Flickr, Bebo

  MobyPicture is a mobile photo-sharing site, where you can send in images to your account directly from your cell phone. The service has recently added two new features for easier photo-sharing across other social networks Twitter and Flickr. While the Twitter feature is currently live, the Flickr addition is set to go live tonight. You can

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• StumbleUpon Adds New Look to Profile Pages

  Published: August 19, 2007, 6:25 pm

  Tags: Social Networking, Bebo, Web 2 0

  StumbleUpon has launched a new look for your user profile. Similar to Yahoo Mail, it’s testing this look out in “beta,” letting you toggle between the classic and updated look for your StumbleUpon site. The main difference between the two pages is simply the layout. With the updated look, you’ll get more of a social

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• Microsoft to Power IM on Bebo

  Published: August 20, 2007, 8:17 pm

  Tags: Social Networking, Bebo, Web 2 0

  service throughout the Bebo network. This marks the first time Microsoft has partnered with a social network to provide IM tools. Now, users on Bebo can chat with friends within the Bebo network as well as import and export between its contacts on Windows Live and Bebo as well. This makes it more than just a partnership to let Bebo users

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• Windows Live Messaging Coming To Bebo

  Published: August 20, 2007, 10:42 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Bebo, Microsoft

  Bebo has announced a new partnership with Microsoft that will see the introduction of the Windows Live instant messaging service to Bebo’s social network. The new service will allow Bebo to chat to users outside of the Bebo network from within Bebo itself. What makes the deal perhaps more interesting is that Bebo users will also now be

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• Is Microsoft Trying To Be Social or Candid?

  Published: August 21, 2007, 2:47 am

  Tags: Social Media, Microsoft, Bebo, Windows Live Messenger

  Microsoft will partner with Bebo - the largest social networking site in the UK and a network that is hunting down MySpace and Facebook in the US. Windows Live Messenger will be integrated with the Bebo system to allow instant messenging between members, in addition to the import and export of contacts across both user bases. Joanna Shields,

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