Bebo

I visited the Wikipedia article on Bebo to research this post. If you type Bebo into google the link appears near the top of the search results. I highly recommend reading it. Bebo was started by a Californian couple in 2005 and they came up with the name first and the slogan - Blog early blog often - afterwards. Bebo at one stage had more members than myspace in the UK and was the most visited site in Ireland. Over a million irish people were members. They sold it to AOL for over $500 million but it had trouble competing with Facebook and it was one of the dot com casualties. There was work that needed doing on platform it ran on. AOL in turn sold it to a venture capital company for less than $10 million. As a result of these deals the CEO of AOL lost his job. After this the software Bebo ran on got an overhaul. At one stage it was possible to write apps for Bebo but this was controversial because it was possible to write an app that contacted all Bebo's members. Now it's no longer possible to write apps. There's a fully functional mobile site and there should be various apps for the various smartphone platforms to allow them to do things like post a blog on Bebo.