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)
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.
Hehehehe Lol or8
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: please buy us, bill!
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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.
how can u get on bebo wen itz blocked at school
Well, that killed the conversation…
will you ever learn to link to the site in your *POST*?
get bebo
pls may u try and get bebo on here cause it wont work !
wb ……