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Analysis: Bebo Snubs Google With Facebook Platform Clone

TechCrunch | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

Let's call a spade a spade here. When the third largest social network in the U.S. announces a platform for social applications that mirrors Facebook's and appeals to Facebook developers, it is a snub to Google. For all the promise of Google's competing OpenSocial platform (which Bebo is also supporting), [...]

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Facebook outmaneuvers Google; Bebo launches FB-compatible platform (Steve O'Hear/The Social Web)

Techmeme | December 13th, 2007 | Email this

Facebook outmaneuvers Google; Bebo launches FB-compatible platform — When Google announced "OpenSocial", a set of three common APIs designed to create an alternative developer platform to that offered by Facebook, I described it as a 'combine and conquer strategy'. Source: The Social Web Author: Steve O'Hear Link: [...]

Bebo, Meebo team up with Facebook against Google

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Around the Net In Online Marketing: Bebo Platform Tied To Facebook

MediaPost | December 13th, 2007 | Email this

Live: Bebo Launching Platform Tonight, Adopts Facebook Platform APIs; Facebook opening Platform architecture

Inside Facebook | December 13th, 2007 | Email this

I'm here at the Bebo Platform launch event at the Metreon in San Francisco. Bebo CEO is Michael Birch is presenting the Platform details: We've always wanted to be open, but when Facebook launched their Platform earlier this year, it was quite comprehensive and similar to what we wanted to [...]

Bebo Adopts Facebook Platform; Facebook Opens Up its Platform Architecture

Read/WriteWeb | December 13th, 2007 | Email this

Back in October Read/WriteWeb got the scoop that social network Bebo was about to announce a developer platform. This was pre-OpenSocial, which Bebo joined at the beginning of November. Then in mid November Bebo announced Open Media, which we described as not terribly open and "like a white listing of [...]

Bebo Embraces Facebook Apps With Its "Open Applications Platform" (Mark Hendrickson/TechCrunch)

Techmeme | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

Bebo Embraces Facebook Apps With Its "Open Applications Platform" — When Google developed OpenSocial, it was intended to obviate the need for developers to reprogram the same social networking applications for separate platforms. Several social networks without their own proprietary developer platforms … Source: TechCrunch Author: Mark Hendrickson [...]

Facebook throws platform at rivals, pokes Google [Developer Relations]

Valleywag | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

Facebook wasn't invited to the OpenSocial party. Now it's throwing its own. Facebook says it will allow other social networks to use the software behind its third-party developer platform as a model. "In fact, we'll even license the Facebook Platform methods and tags to other platforms," Ami Vora writes on [...]

Facebook Opens Platform, Bebo Adopts It

Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

TechCrunch reports that social network Bebo launched its new Open Application Platform this morning in San Francisco. But the platform is an exact duplicate of Facebook platform based on Facebook opening up the code to third-party developers. (Here's the Bebo press release.) Bebo is part of OpenSocial, the competing Google [...]

Bebo Opens Developer Platform with Support for Facebook Applications

Mashable | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

Yesterday we mentioned that Bebo would be launching its application platform for developers today, and lo and behold, it has arrived. Bebo's Open Application Platform has opened its API tools to third party developers to integrate their applications within the Bebo site, and it has launched today with over 40 [...]

Bebo unveils new application platform, touts Facebook compatibility

CNET | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

Instead of launching yet another platform, the youth-oriented social-networking site has opted to make its applications compatible with Facebook's platform.[...]

Bebo Embraces Facebook Apps With Its “Open Applications Platform”

TechCrunch | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

When Google developed OpenSocial, it was intended to obviate the need for developers to reprogram the same social networking applications for separate platforms. Several social networks without their own proprietary developer platforms, including Bebo, quickly embraced OpenSocial as their opportunity to get in on some of the social-application action that [...]

Google relaunching "Answers" as Yahoo clone [Google]

Valleywag | December 13th, 2007 | Email this

Google is relaunching its failed Answers product as a Yahoo Answers clone, say the sharp-eyed obsessives at Google Operating System. In the original Answers, questioners would offer cash for answers and a researcher would provide them. As a result, the questions were usually highly detailed and meticulously factchecked. In the [...]

Google Turning My Maps Into Social Mapping Platform With Collaboration, Ratings, And Comments

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After core search, without question Google Maps (including Earth) is the company's most successful and popular product. And lately Google has taken the product in very interesting directions. Among the most interesting things Google has done with Maps was the launch of My Maps in April of this year. Since [...]

Bebo Opens Back-End; 100% Compatible with Facebook

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UK-based social network Bebo has announced it too will open its back-end to programmers. But the plot thickens. Bebo is partnering with Facebook so its apps are 100 percent compatible with both[...]

Some Thoughts on the Opening of the Facebook Platform Architecture

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life | December 13th, 2007 | Email this

Yesterday I read about the Opening up Facebook Platform Architecture. My initial thoughts are that Facebook has done what Google claimed to have done but didn't with Open Social. Facebook seems to have provided detailed specs on how to build an interoperable widget platform unlike Google who unleashed a bunch of [...]

Around the Net In Online Marketing: Facebook Platform Takes on OpenSocial

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Facebook to License Its Platform for Other Social Sites

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Thanks for the push, Google, now leave Facebook to it

All Facebook | December 13th, 2007 | Email this

Facebook's surprise announcement that they will encourage adoption of their Platform standard by other social networks has of course been interpreted as a challenge to OpenSocial. Just as Google announced their free and open standard from a position of weakness, Facebook have plainly decided to share their Platform from a [...]

Facebook Opens Up, Licenses Platform: Social Graph Platform Wars are ON!

500hats | December 13th, 2007 | Email this

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It's love at first sight as Bebo and Facebook team up on technology

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Bits: Bebo Copies Facebook, Which Invites Others to Do the Same

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Bebo has developed a system to let applications written for Facebook run on its social network.[...]

Bebo developers deal blow to Google

Financial Times | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

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Bebo Copies Facebook, Which Invites Others to Do the Same

New York Times | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

Bebo has developed a system to let applications written for Facebook run on its social network. Facebook then decided to let other networks do the same. All this is meant to fight off the Google-MySpace environment called OpenSocial.[...]

Facebook Counters OpenSocial; Bebo Playing Both Sides

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Facebook is ready to counterattack Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) OpenSocial. The site revealed today that its Facebook Platform would be made available to other social networking sites, allowing developers to easily port Facebook apps to sites that adopt the standard. Facebook's Ami Vora explained the move on the company's developer site: [...]

Bebo uses Facebook’s developer platform to tap its own user base

VentureBeat | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

Social network Bebo has taken a page from Facebook. It has launched its own, full-blown developer platform that, like Facebook's, gives third-party developers deeper access to its user data. In fact, Facebook worked directly with Bebo on its platform to ensure that Facebook applications can be easily ported over to [...]

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Facebook lets other sites access platform code; is OpenSocial dead in the water?

CNET | December 12th, 2007 | Email this

In a surprise move, the social network announces that it will let other social media sites have access to its applications--exactly what Google's OpenSocial was created to do.[...]

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