Bebo?was a?social networking?website launched in 2005. Bebo now calls itself “a company that dreams up ideas for fun social apps” and Joe Mbu, the man behind the Bebo relaunch, has confirmed that the site will not be returning as a social network but as a company that makes social apps. As of July 2013, it is owned and operated by its founders?Michael Birch?and?Xochi Birch, who took over from?Criterion Capital Partners?after the company declared bankruptcy.
It is now known to a select number of individuals in a private?Facebook?group that a social networking app for?iOS?and?Android?is in the works called Bebo. The screenshots so far reveal the app to be very different to the old Bebo and the video claims that Bebo is “Probably not for boring people” – The URL www.bebo.com will not be used and the new Bebo will remain mobile only. There are currently no plans to release Bebo, Blab or any others apps made by Bebo, Inc to other ecosystems such as?BlackBerry?and?Windows Phone
The website, at the height of its popularity, overtook?Myspace?to become the most widely used social networking website in the?United Kingdom,?eventually registering at least 10.7 million unique users. The site was also extremely popular in?Ireland?? at one point it claimed to have over a million Irish users, and data from Alexa ranked it as Ireland’s most-visited site. Its popularity saw it sold to?AOL?for $850 million in 2008.
Sources: Wikipedia, The Guardian