Bebo
Description
Bebo (IPA /bee bo/) is an online social media network where friends share their lives and explore online entertainment, designed to allow friends to communicate in various ways. It has developed into an online community where users can post pictures, write blogs and send messages to one another, and is similar in format to MySpace, Xanga, and Yahoo! 360. The site was founded in January 2005 by husband and wife team Michael and Xochi Birch. It was given a major relaunch in July of that year. Bebo can be used in most countries around the world including Ireland, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. Bebo have recently launched a [http://pl.bebo.com Polish] version of the site which uses a different user database. There are also plans for [http://fr.bebo.com French] and [http://es.bebo.com Spanish] versions among others.
Bebo is the 85th most popular English-language website (at 1 June 2007) according to Alexa Internet. According to Hitwise, Bebo is the third most popular social networking website but has only a 1.18% share of the market. Bebo also announced on March 17 2007 that it was the most popular website in the Republic of Ireland, however, as of October 7 2007, Bebo dropped to second, behind Google.ie. As of September 2007 Alexa ranked it as the 11th most popular site in the UK with MySpace occupying 9th place and Facebook 3rd place. In the U.S. however, it was not in the top 100 at that point. Bebo was also listed as the number one term most representative of search trends on Google in 2006.