Bebo valuation is less when compared to facebook acquisition

Bebo, A famous biggest social networking website in Britain, the Irish Republic and New Zealand is in process to be sold.

Current valuation of the third biggest social networking site (bebo) in the US is $850m.

The Price is less when compared with the valuations of similar websites. Facebook 1.6% of stake is being sold for $240m, News corp brought Myspace for $580m but now estimates for worth more than $15bn.


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Yahoo OpenSocial Alliance?

New alliance is hot in the OpenSocial world. Google, Friendster, hi5, imeem, Linkedin, Dekoh, Myspace, Ning, Oracle, Orkut, Plaxo, SalessForce, Six Apart, Xing and many others on a GoogleOpen Social board. Yahoo is considering Google’s OpenSocial alliance, which would be the big throttle that will bring a tool and service which work across many web platforms. Everyone is there in the OpenSocial team, except Facebook, whose founder have some issues regarding secretive and cryptic.

Mildly positive comment on these rumors by Yahoo’s “yahoo has a rich history of supporting open standards, as they believe industry collaboration is beneficial to the developer community and the web as a whole, while they are evaluating OpenSocial as an emerging standard, they do not comment on speculation or rumors

Facebok will make there own life difficult by acting against the wishes of others, it will take them so far, at the end they will probably have to announce there support here.

Android Mobile Mob2.0!!

Google released a new Android Mobile open development platform.
Waiting for cool updates.
Wana name this generation Mob2.0
Mobile of next generation.

Though the telephone package has not been updated yet.
In November google launched Android along with the open handset Alliance. Handset, chip makers have said they are planning to support Android products and services.

Product are due out later this year.

Joy

Googler’s nabbed by facebook….

Will Facebook UI gets better than ever…?

As TechCrunch Reports, facebook is capturing the google employees.
Facebook is allegedly grabbing google employees. How and why? Because google become calm, and crossed his halfway of his age, while facebook have a cool offers for goolge employees.

According to sources, good number of top performers have made the switch over the last two months. Googler’s expect to continue seeing at least two to four more leave for facebook each month. Know facebook is targeting skim of the team. Many of the googler’s are leaving, or being actively recruited.

A steady stream of google employees are making the switch to facebook, and competition for top college graduate is fierce as well. Facebook just seems to have a hell of a lot “sexier” offer than Google.

Good, Maybe facebook will get a face lift and get a better. If only for the face lift, facebook is grabbing googler’s ..it seems to making competition with google. If face lift is the only reason then here is a good UI company.

"For Facebook and Google reference

Anyhow, by these competition employee are getting a hell lot sexier then ever…cross the finger…and pray for this competition.

Flickr by place

You can find a new way to browse the worlds happening.

Flickr, Yhaoo Inc’s online photo-sharing site, introducing a set of mapping features, this week, that makes it easier to find photo based on their location.

“Places” the new service identify latest hot-spots on global map for photo contribution.

Flicker is going to start on Monday his new service “places” where web user can browse photos from millions of geographically located photos on the site www.flickr.com.

Web user can now search photo that might interest them, by more than 100,000 geographical places names. More of the countries, city and regions have their own featured pages.

User can click on a category tag, that will take them to selection of photo, giving them a glance of other flicker users what they find interesting on that tag.

Now the site will give more local appeal to users, as well as attract prospective travelers seeking to get beyond photos of landmark for places they plan to visit

Flickr is increasing new location pages per week.
Places will be available in the eight languages that flickr now offers—English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean and traditional Chinese.

Ref:Reuters

Skyrocketing value of online communities

It’s surprising about Microsoft corp’s investment in Facebook Inc. - $15 billion for 3 ½ year old internet hangout, or the rare shun of online leader Google Inc.

Microsoft paid $240 million price for 1.6% stake in Facebook. This clear the view, world largest software maker, crudely wanted to deepen its relationship with a startup that didn’t have $200 million in annual revenue.

By stamping the deal, Microsoft had loosed previous high-stake biding battles to taking stake in AOL, internet ad service DoubleClick Inc, and taking the ownership of online video sharing pioneer YouTube. Microsoft finally cooked-up Google by taking the stake of Facebook Inc.

Microsoft’s investment, increase the value of online communities like Facebook, Orkut – a place where people look for dates, share music videos and photos, connect with family and friends.

News corp. in 2005 paid $580 million for outright ownership of MySpace.com. Microsoft established the current market value of Facebook to $15 billion, by his investment in the same.

Although Myspace remains the largest social network, while there is so many social site for different activity, like Digg (community-based popularity website), delicious (social bookmarking), Dekoh (Sharing photo, music, books etc direct from there desktop without uploading), Flicker (photo sharing), Orkut (social interacting website) and many more….

Google’s current social network (Orkut) has seen relatively good success on the globe.

32 year old company Microsoft becoming more internet savvy by his successful courtship of Facebook.

Test your sanity against online players...MySpace (social networking website)

MySpace Games is expected to launch in 2008, the companies said.

Privately held Oberon Media was founded in 2003 and backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Oak Investment Partners and Lehman Brothers.
MySpace games is expected to launch in 2008.

MySpace formed a partnership with Oberon Media to create a new gaming channel on the website. Oberon Media is privately held company founded in 2003, backed by Golman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Oak investment partners.

Users can choose their favorite games from list of games and can add them to their WebPages.

Ref:reuters