As it seems bebo has let itself stoop to allowing porno sluts to advertise themselves on the social networking site which angers me to an extent at nearly every day going through my emails only to find out its some porno slut wanting me to accept a friend request only to make her look popular and advertises porno pics via a link on their profiles.

This quite frankly must stop before a lot of people like me become pissed off and start major complaints as well as filing abuse of advertising porn on bebo ( via links on bebo profiles which still counts as being on bebo as the link is pasted on their said profile).

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not sure which website you reffering to because here the discussion is about BEBO.com and not Bibo….

Think about it — AOL owns TMZ and such. Bebo is very much about spreading homemade video and music content. It would be great if AOL could leverage the property as a multiplier of its own content.

Bebo is no where close to the deadpool, IMO.

1) TW needs to dump AOL, so I agree with Sean that this looks like a pre-emptive to do that.

2) AOL execs should be asking if I want fries with my Big Macs – oh..hold on…better not let them near the cash registers…..

And a personal message to AOL execs who may be reading this and who were in on the Bebo deal….

..SUCKERS!!!!!!!!

That’s because no one knows how to fucking use them; they think ad revenue is going to pay for everything. Social networking sites have millions of consumers at their disposal that they refuse to sell their own home-grown products too (for the most part.) Facebook has created a few products like the virtual gifts etc. so it seems to be on the path to understanding how you can pitch products to people w/out annoying them. With all their VC money, Facebook could easily create exclusive video clips that some people would be willing to pay 99 cents for. They could hit different demographics. They could make a series of non-free iphone apps and then pitch them to their everyone on the site. Loads of things they could do but refuse to do.

Is that dial-up? Is that a misprint?

For those who don’t know, goodwill is the difference between the value difference between positive owner’s equity (assets minus liabilities) and the purchase price of an asset. So if you have owner’s equity of $10m and someone pays $25m for your business, they take on your assets on their balance sheet, they add $15m of goodwill and they pay for it with cash (reducing and asset) or they take on a loan (increase a liability) to pay for it. Goodwill is the “balancing” number of an acquisition for your balance sheet.

I think more importantly, this writedown signals that Time Warner is finally getting ready to sell AOL – they are reducing the value of the asset so that they can get a quick sale. If they didn’t do this now, then if someone acquired AOL for LESS than the book value TW has on their books, then TW would have to take a further writedown for selling an asset at a loss.

Companies around the world are flushing the junk out of their balance sheets so that they can re-position their gearing ratios for when liquidity returns to the market – these big companies want to be buyers during that phase of the game!