You hear a lot of jokes at MySpace’s expense about how it’s not relevant anymore, and how only losers still attempt to create a social presence via MySpace (I am of course excluding bands, who are by all rights the only users at this point who should, in fact, continue to use MySpace as a promotional tool). These jokes are, for the most part, justified. MySpace is hardly relevant. Though, to its credit, the new MySpace redesign is one of the most beautiful I’ve seen, bar none. The logo alone is the stuff of a branding student’s portfolio: far too sexy and obscure to be applied. Yet it was. Brilliant. Anyway,…

Hey guys, you ever lie awake at night and wonder what’s up with Bebo? Yeah, me neither. AOL did this one time, and now it’s paying dearly for it – to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. I guess I should explain what Bebo is, for the less-informed here: Bebo is… jeez, what’s the best way to put it. Imagine, like… imagine MySpace, only no one cares. No, wait, bad example. Imagine MySpace, but everyone cares even less. That might be difficult to grasp at first, but just chew on it for a moment. Anyway, in an attempt to jump on social networking back in 2008, AOL proudly laid down $850 million (that’s…

The once popular social networking site, Bebo, isn’t faring so well against it’s competition: Facebook and Twitter. Bebo is owned by AOL but the company is in talks of whether or not they should sell the site and end their involvement entirely. Bebo reached it’s highest peak of popularity in 2008 and has slowly been plummeting since then. I’m an avid social-networker and I have to admit that I’ve rarely heard of Bebo. Flashy sites like Facebook and Twitter have sucked me in with their chat options and sleek new designs. According to this article, Bebo was the second largest social-networking site…