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Old 18-12-2014, 08:21 AM #1
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Default Bebo launches messaging app.

Bebo is now - Bebo - Chat with Attitude

The original founders have bought back the domain for $1m after selling it in 2008 to AOL for $850m.

They have now relaunched it as a messaging app on iOS and Android with a Web version soon to follow.

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'When we decided to come back we wanted to make something people would use,' Shaan Puri, the CEO of Bebo, told MailOnline.

He runs the site for Michael and Xochi Birch, the couple who founded it in 2005, and who bought the domain name back.

'A lot of casual conversation is about banter - so we came up with the idea based around that.'

When users first sign up, they create their own avatars which are their 'face' on the network.

Using hashtags, they can be made to change their expression, for instance.

Other hashtags can show a map, play music or even launch games on the site.

'Michael decided to use hashtags, to allow people to make their character do things - you can slap friends, or even play a game, or send a song,' said Puri.

The firm plans to add extra features to the app over time.
Quote above from Mail online.



Some more info here

http://entertainment.ie/life/Bebo-is...-it/321541.htm

http://www.bebo.com/

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A Google search for:
site:bebo.com
... brings up search results for webpages on the bebo.com site. It appears that much of the old site was archived, however the archived version of the old site is semi-functional (e.g. links going to blank pages, search functions not working etc).

A Google search for:
"Big Brother" site:bebo.com
... brings up some results for Big Brother related bebo pages.
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