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- davidsmero, on 03/13/2008, -6/+140AOL has $850 million?
- xdeliriumx, on 03/13/2008, -6/+68A shiny bow on a turd is still a turd.
- HeDiggMe, on 03/13/2008, -4/+43Does this mean AOL will make it damn near impossible to cancel their accounts?
- Gold3n, on 03/13/2008, -4/+34Wow crazy.. I guess it's much bigger in Europe then it is in the states.
- CaptAubrious, on 03/13/2008, -8/+38Bebo is pretty big in Europe, especially in the U.K. & Ireland. More popular than facebook, for the moment anyway.
- championchap, on 03/13/2008, -3/+28Seems to be bigger than mySpace over here in the UK.
kinda *****, i've always described the various networking sites as such
MySpace: For having sex with underage emo girls
Bebo: For having sex with underage chav* girls
FaceBook: For keeping in touch with friends.
*For those that dont know, a "chav" is basically just UK white trash.. they wear hats stupidly, live in counsil houses and the girls get pregnant at 13 then live off the benafits from the government. - pyrotix, on 03/13/2008, -1/+18I don't think you can infer a trend from two data points
- MisterBlah, on 03/13/2008, -1/+15How can they afford it? There's plenty of money to circulate. Keep in mind AOL is basically just the Internet arm for Time Warner, also parent company to:
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Turner Broadcasting System (television channels CNN, Cartoon Network, TNT, etc.)
- DC Comics
- New Line Cinema
- Time Inc.(as in the magazine)
- Time Warner Cable
- HBO
- The CW Television Network
Want to ponder something? In a roundabout way, AOL owns Superman. And Batman. - anonatron, on 03/13/2008, -1/+14The real problem is that AOL could have been relevant in this day if they had embraced the social aspects of it's system and opened it up. There was a time when AOL pretty much was myspace.
- themastersb, on 03/13/2008, -2/+14I thought AOL used all their money on trial CDs
- DCGUY12, on 03/13/2008, -3/+15From Wikipedia:
1. MySpace: General. Popular Worldwide. 115,000,000 Open to people 14 and older.
2. orkut: Owned by Google. Popular in Brazil and India. 109,000,000 Open to people 18 and older
3. Facebook: General. Popular in Canada, UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand. 97,800,000 Open to people 13 and older.
4. Habbo: General. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat Room and user profiles. 86,000,000 Open to people 13 and older
5. hi5: General. Latin American and Asian teens. Popular in Cyprus and Romania. 70,000,000 Open Friendster General. Popular in Southeast Asia. 58,000,000Open to people 16 and older.
6. Classmates.com: School, college, work and the military 40,000,000 Open
7. Windows Live Spaces: Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces) 40,000,000 Open
8. Xanga: Blogs and "metro" areas 40,000,000 Open
9. Flixster: Movies 36,000,000 Open
10. Netlog: Formerly known as Facebox. 32,402,580 Open
11. Tagged.com: General 30,000,000 Open
12. Reunion.com: Locating friends and family, keeping in touch 28,000,000 Open
13. iLike: Music, Video, Photos, Blogs 25,000,000 Open
14. Bebo: General, Popular in UK, Ireland, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands 21,300,000 Open to people 13 and over
http://valleywag.com/367414/does-bebo-brag-prove-a ... - canewediggit, on 03/13/2008, -4/+13myspace went for $500m w/ 20m users, avg $/user of $25
bebo goes for $850m w/ 40m users, avg $/user of $21.25
anybody notice what direction that trend line is moving? anybody still think facebook is worth $15b? - connorwilson, on 03/13/2008, -4/+13I wish I had that kind of money to throw away.
- Shaymus22, on 03/13/2008, -1/+10This is the sign of the "Web 2.0 Bubble"
- ceruleanocte, on 03/13/2008, -2/+10ouch.
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -2/+9but facebook has everyones information. its much more valuable than just being able to be displayed ads.
- Zippo, on 03/13/2008, -1/+8Which one's the turd? They're both terrible.
- ralphthemagi, on 03/13/2008, -3/+10Congratulations! You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about!
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -3/+9Only in Ireland not the UK.
Both facebook & myspace get more traffic than bebo in the UK
/alexa - chubbymidget, on 03/13/2008, -10/+16Where'd AOL get $850 million?
- peregrine, on 03/13/2008, -1/+6I did not know orkut was so big, I always saw Orkut as google's ugly attempt at a myspace.
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -0/+4AOL is a Time Warner company, I assure you they have plenty of cash.
- ralphthemagi, on 03/13/2008, -2/+6These sites don't have to even *be* profitable. They provide added value to portfolios of larger companies. This lets AOL have their own MySpace, instead of investing to create their own. Large scale, long term profitability is not a concern in the Web 2.0 landscape.
The mistake that these large parent companies are making is: (1) that the ad revenue generated from these kinds of sites is going to increase exponentially; and (2) that they can actually monetize all those users. - terrix, on 03/13/2008, -1/+5I've tried Bebo, couldn't get into it, granted its much better then MySpace, I still prefer Facebook.
- SSUK, on 03/13/2008, -1/+5They buy it as a advertisement platform. Then systematically run it into the ground. See: Winamp.
- Nobi-Wan, on 03/13/2008, -2/+6AOL has that kind of money? I figured that no one besides 80 year old grandma's used their service simply because they forgot they still had a subscription.
- fkr3, on 03/13/2008, -1/+5I'd say they just turned a ***** huge profit lol.
- DrDash, on 03/13/2008, -9/+12Its the largest social site in Europe and New Zealand and somewhere else. 80 million users.
- Jeffler, on 03/13/2008, -2/+5Where do you connect ***** Bebo and Digg? FFS
- plizard, on 03/13/2008, -7/+10well theres a site i wont join
- MAG1CO, on 03/13/2008, -1/+4I'm in the UK and bebo is ***** - no account for me.
- joeleslie, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3Yeah, it's pretty big here in the UK (Well, the area I come from anyway), and Ireland as well, I believe.
- devknob, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3Time Warner
- leerayIG88, on 03/13/2008, -2/+4***** 56k fisher price modem.
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -2/+4I don't believe in math.. next week, I will not be believing in cars
- Daggity, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3Not anymore!
- aleahey, on 03/13/2008, -1/+340 million people on it, and I don't know 1.
- MacTyler, on 03/13/2008, -3/+5This Week: Anyone buys your Mom for $20 dollars.
- fiendlama, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3You have no idea what you're talking about
- asspants, on 03/13/2008, -2/+4I hope this makes AOL file for bankruptcy and shutdown permanently so that we can leave all of this behind us.
- bowe, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Zuckerberg is going to wish he sold when he had the chance. Nothing on the Internet stays popular forever, especially in social networking. Friendster --> Myspace --> Facebook -->? Distributed Niche Social Networking? OpenSocial?
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3$20 is correct. $20 dollars is not.
- anillop, on 03/13/2008, -3/+5Wow i figured at this point AOL didn't have enough cash to buy a pack of gum.
- Viakenny, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2"Bebo" in Portuguese means "I drink"
- fradro, on 03/14/2008, -0/+2It is popular in Brazil and also India. Think of India's population, orkut will only get bigger.
- dazparkour, on 03/14/2008, -0/+2So, now when you phone up to cancel AOL they can bribe you with "You wouldn't want that picture emailed to your mother's account would you? Yes. That picture."
- fkr3, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3It makes you wonder why exactly digg's worth the rumoured $200 million. Bebo's got 10's of millions of active users, digg looks a *lot* like it's really only got 10's of thousands of active users*.
* the top story in the last 30 days only has 11,113 diggs which means either the most popular story only appeals to only 0.3% of digg's users or there really is only tens of thousands of active users. Even the biggest story in the last year only got 47,992 diggs, a massive 1.6% of the hypothetical number of users digg has. - inactive, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Well, surely you don't go out a lot (like most British people) 'cause of the ***** fog.
- Thorpe, on 03/13/2008, -1/+2Very true. When I was at school here in the UK, there was like 1 in 3 people using it (maybe more). I personally don't like it much but everyone at my school seemed to always be on it at break.
- bowe, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Accounting for that and using $/user it's still way under $15B.
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