Bebo

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Bebo, Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	January 2005 (2005-01)
Founder	Michael Birch Xochi Birch
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Adam Levin (CEO)
Profit	N/A
Owner	Criterion Capital Partners
Employees	50
Website	bebo.com
Alexa rank	2212 (May 2011)
Type of site	Social network service
Advertising	Banner ads
Registration	Required
Available in	Multilingual, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch
Launched	July 2005 (2005-07)
Current status	Active
Screenshot200px Bebo homepage as of April 2011

Bebo is a social networking website launched in July 2005. It is currently owned and operated by Criterion Capital Partners, after taking over from AOL in June 2010.

The website's name is an acronym for Blog Early, Blog Often. 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. Bebo is very similar to other social networking sites, mainly Facebook and MySpace.

Bebo was founded by Michael Birch and his wife Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home in San Francisco.

It was acquired by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 million. In April 2010, AOL announced it was planning to sell or shut down Bebo, with the sale being completed on June 17, 2010 to Criterion Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. It has been reported that the sale raised less than $10 million.

1 Website
- 1.1 Lifestream
- 1.2 Bebo Mobile
- 1.3 Bebo Authors
- 1.4 Bebo Groups
- 1.5 Bebo 3rd Party Login
- 1.6 Bebo Chat
2 Open Media Platform
3 Open application platform
4 Privacy and security
- 4.1 Inadvertent privacy breach by New Zealand ISP
5 Criticism
6 New Bebo
- 6.1 Possible Closure and Sale
- 6.2 Criterion Capital Partners
- 6.3 Revamp
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Website

Each Bebo User receives a profile, which 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 o

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