Gweilo Beeboo
angel gambino (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
More fun in the bebo UK office... This photo was taken in the bebo UK office before The Music Managers Forum , Roll of Honour Dinner where Simon Fuller won the Manager of the Year Award. It was great to catch up with the lovely gentlemen from We7 , Warners , Channel 4 , Frukt , Ricall and some of the managers we work with on various new formats, promotions, A&R etc...
angel gambino (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Although many brands choose to use the headphones in music logos, I still think the bebo music logo rocks! It nearly covers the entire wall at the bebo UK office.
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Bebo has hired Philip Macartney has hired Philip Macartney, a sales exec with Dublin's FM104 radio station, as head of sales in Ireland, one of its most popular territories. Macartney a founder of online kiosk maker Every1online, is Bebo's first appointment in Ireland and comes following its $850 million acquisition by AOL ( NYSE: TWX ), suggesting the portal parent wants to monetise...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Shona Lester and Louisa Maxwell
TV Scoop (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
No, I have no idea what an adventure reality series is. Or even a reality adventure series. But Bebo tell me that it is launching an online adventure reality series and I'm going to believe it. The social networking site has recently started to get into online TV in a big way, and seems to see interactive dramas as a way forward to creating communinties and stuff like that. Its latest project...
ScribeMedia (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Video: What does AOL hope to gain for its $850 million acquisition of Bebo—and why did Bebo opt for a portal? Will this investment translate into innovations for users and advertisers? How will AOL use Bebo in international markets and what can Bebo do for AOL here in the U.S.?
Revenue Source (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
In this new post on his blog, John Maver gives a step-by-step guide for creating a PHP5 application for the popular social networking site Bebo.com . I have been answering a lot of email requests for how to get started with a Bebo application. Since applications can be written in any language that supports interaction with the Bebo REST API, developers have a lot of choices in...
Unreality TV (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Fasten your seat belt and stow your tray table in an upright position - The Gap Year is ready for take off! The ultimate round-the-world adventure reality series will launch on Wednesday, 21 May, premiering exclusively on social media network Bebo. Beginning with an interactive online audition process, more than 400 hopefuls the world over uploaded [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Bebo's online drama KateModern will wrap up for the last time at the end of June. By Jemima Kiss
Times of India (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Bebo says everything’s fine between the two.
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Sometimes, the end of a documentary reveals itself to the director long before he is finished. That's how it was for Carlos Carcas, who had been filming 89-year-old Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés as he played a moving rendition of "Old Man River."
NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Circuit City Opens Up to Blockbuster ; rental chain and Carl Ichann allowed to conduct due diligence on the company, Ichann may fund buyout. ( paidContent ) ( previous coverage ) TV Nets Upfront Ad Sales Forecast to Be Down this Year ; poor economy, writers’ strike and lower ratings are forecast to translate into a drop in ad buying of between 2 and 14 percent. ( TVWeek ) Bebo Delivers One Billion...
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Bebo business development VP Ziv Navoth told Beet.tv's Andy Plesser the social network is getting "over a billion" video views every month. If you haven't read our ongoing coverage here for the last few months, Navoth explains Bebo's video strategy rather succinctly. "Most of them get discovered by people putting it on their profile," Navoth said. SAI argues even this many views is a...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Bebo veep Ziv Navoth told Beet.tv's Andy Plesser that his social network is really big in video. How big? "Over ONE BILLION" videos streamed per month, he says. So how big is that? Well, not bad. But not a world-beater, either: Bebo's (TWX) number is presumably global, and we assume most of those views came out of the UK, where Bebo is strongest. But that number is less than a...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Children younger than five have full Facebook and Bebo profiles and many are unsupervised by their parents.
