August 20, 2007

Windows Live Messaging Coming To Bebo

Duncan Riley

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Bebo has announced a new partnership with Microsoft that will see the introduction of the Windows Live instant messaging service to Bebo’s social network.

The new service will allow Bebo users to chat to people outside of the Bebo network, from within Bebo itself. What makes the deal perhaps more interesting is that Bebo users will also now be recognized over the Windows Live platform; in effect the deal becomes a sort of merging of member databases. It’s also a first for Microsoft, who has remained somewhat distant from the growing social networking market to date.

Bebo continues to trail behind MySpace and Facebook in the United States in terms of traffic, but as confirmed by comScore August 15, is the most popular social networking site in the United Kingdom.

(via Reuters)

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Is it really a formal partnership, or did Bebo just elect to use the now-available Windows Live login? Either way it’s pretty cool I think, just wondering if Microsoft has done something exclusive with them.

 

Duncan please don’t pick boring topic or something that bores you.
Find something that excites us.

We want to see hype.
We want to see Rocky Balboa web 2.0 (rags to richest) startup.
We want to see rival startups
We want to see next microsoft
We want to see next Google.
We want to see young company that takes risks.

 

Its fascinating how services are so geographically tied. Windows Live Messaging - blahh.

 
why didn't you cover this? - August 20th, 2007 at 8:19 pm PDT

Why don’t techcrunch cover this startup article:
http://www.whozat.com/

What’s whozat about?

Any photoshots?

 

Blah Blah IM is dead. It’s so 2003. What’s next? That’s what we want you to tell us. It ain’t twitter. Whatever it is, it’s the anti technology, technology. It’s the flash drive platform that goes with you everywhere and plugs in wherever.

 

Don’t know where MS is heading this way :(

 
 

bebo… i thought it died. no? ah well. move along…

 

well lets see how it will function via bebo…

 

There’s a new software called 8hands which lets you IM and share media with your friends from myspace, facebook, flickr and more.

 

I am a Welsh wanker. My energy levels are low. My mommy is a ho. After three hours of work I start huffing and puffing. That is why I went to the internet and formed startups. Sooner or later one will work. The Internet makes entrepreneurs lazy like me. We want lots of money, but do not want to work for it. We have dreams of extreme wealth. Founders of social networking sites have achieved that goal without hard work unlike suckers in the old economy. We have soft lives. That is the privilege of those in the new economy.

All I had to do was lie flat on my back like a bum, start a site and then put in Basic software that allows people to share photos, music etc. That took five hours each week for four months. Everything else fell into place. I don’t have to slog to create great content. The users hand that to Bebo on a silver platter. An online business can generate significant advertising income that, can be earned with minimal input from the business owner like me. This is due to the fact that so many processes can be automated on
the Internet thus saving the need for an individual to carry out these tasks. I get loose motions when I think about how hard I would have had to work if I had been in the old economy.

I am looking to sell Bebo for over a billion dollars. I can just sit at home and ask for the moon. Wealth will be handed to me on a silver platter. It is amazing how lazy the founders of social networking sites can be and how we genuinely expect to have an online business handed to us on a plate. That is what has happened to Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Youtube. We all only see the possibility of fast money as our sites get millions of users. There is no need to think. Fast money works better than curare to paralyse our minds.

I don’t need to know how to do some of the things involved with running an online business as i got other people to do them even if I have to pay them. Right from 2001 I never knew exactly how the business worked from the ground up. I just sat at home like a bum and formed start ups. I knew that magic would one day happen. I never had to worry about the job market. I never had to worry about working six long hours a day for five days each week. I never had to worry about a career path. I never had to worry about a plan of action for Monday morning. I have a soft life.

I never had to worry about sound business plans. I ignored even basic human-resource and customer-service requirements. Since I am a dotcommer I will have no problem burning through other people。ッs hard earned wealth when I sell Bebo. I will buy a yacht and a penthouse. I will vacation on the QE2. I am a dotcom moron who is changing the world by offering a social website. I just had to make sure that I got to the market first. The allure of unearned riches was why I became an internet entrepreneur in 2001. The millions of users give Bebo the Midas touch. This has induced a kind of greed hysteria in me. I want at least one billion dollars. If Steve Jobs could just sit on his arse in a garage and make billions of dollars then I deserve no less. It does not matter that I am stupid
and lazy dotcommer.

I will now make sure that my kids grow up to be pampered and spoiled brats. I will cater to their every whim and fancy. If they do not want to study there is no need for them to do so. After all I have hit the jackpot. If they do go to school then everyday I will give them two thousand pounds as spending money. The other kids will go green with envy as their parents who are trapped working each and every bloody week in the old economy cannot afford to give them even five hundred pounds everyday. I will teach them to poke fun of and laugh at the working class who have to slog each and every month for the rest of their miserable lives for a few 90 grand at old economy firms like The New York Times, Pepsi, Walmart, GM,
Nike, Coca Cola, Viacom, newspapers, Vodafone. All these firms give their employees menial work which is why the employees are frustrated. That is so funny.

I will worsen my children’s greed, selfishness, and arrogance by being too lenient and allowing my beloved children to do whatever they want. Me and Xochi will constantly dote on our children. If outsiders who have to slog the whole month for a few grand for the rest of their lives have the indecency to tell my children 。ョno。ッ to an unreasonable request them I will encourage my children to scream, shout, cry, hit those bloody losers and behave inappropriately like infants until they get what they want.

I will spend 40 million pounds buying three luxurious 10 bedroom homes for my children. I will give my beloved children many sweets, the most expensive toys that money can buy and other such things whenever they want them. This will build greed and selfishness in my children. I will teach my children to laugh at the poor countries like Africa which is populated with starving niggers and HIV.

I have many nigger jokes that I will teach my kids this year after I sell Bebo for over a billion dollars to Yahoo!.
Why do niggers stink? So blind people can hate them too.
What do you get when a nigger fucks a spic? Someone too lazy to steal.
What is a nigger in a limo? A thief like Martin Luther King.
What is a nigger? Proof that skunks fuck monkeys.
I will also teach my kids to make fun of jews, spics. How many jews can you fit in a VolksWagon? All of them if you put them in the ashtray.

Why do spics drive low-riders? So they can cruise and pick lettuce at the same. One of my favourite pastimes is to make fun of the homeless and unemployed in London and San Francisco by flinging coins in their direction. I will teach my children on whom I dote this as well.

 

Well, that killed the conversation…

 

will you ever learn to link to the site in your *POST*?

 

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