Comments on: The AOL Right Hook – They buy Bebo! http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/13/the-aol-right-hook-buys-bebo/ The premier destination for African-American’s in Technology and New Media Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:17:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: urbantech http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/13/the-aol-right-hook-buys-bebo/comment-page-1/#comment-2574 urbantech Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:13:03 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/13/the-aol-right-hook-buys-bebo/#comment-2574 In my opinion, AOL had to make a move for a social site not only for "traffic" but for a development platform. The company has recently been very focused on promoting the API and developer tools for AOL. This acquisition was more about allowing AOL to compete with Facebook, MYSpace and others new "Application Platforms" which is the where all the new "ad dollars" will be spent due to the crazyamount of traffic the sites are generating from 3rd party applications and widgets. Toby "Urbantech" Morning http://urbantech.bluemonitor.com In my opinion, AOL had to make a move for a social site not only for “traffic” but for a development platform. The company has recently been very focused on promoting the API and developer tools for AOL.

This acquisition was more about allowing AOL to compete with Facebook, MYSpace and others new “Application Platforms” which is the where all the new “ad dollars” will be spent due to the crazyamount of traffic the sites are generating from 3rd party applications and widgets.

Toby “Urbantech” Morning
http://urbantech.bluemonitor.com

]]> By: mega http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/13/the-aol-right-hook-buys-bebo/comment-page-1/#comment-2423 mega Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:59:41 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2008/03/13/the-aol-right-hook-buys-bebo/#comment-2423 Joseph Weisenthal on PaidContent.org compiled a nice timeline of Bebo milestones leading up to the AOL acquisition. See article here at http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-bebo-in-links/ Joseph Weisenthal on PaidContent.org compiled a nice timeline of Bebo milestones leading up to the AOL acquisition. See article here at http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-bebo-in-links/

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