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Sonico (http://www.sonico.com), the social network of Latin America that organizes people's lives online, announces the appointment of Angel Gambino as its new Vice President, Business Development at Sonico headquarters located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Angel's responsibilities include defining the strategy and developing partnerships with emphasis on increasing multi-device engagement and revenue through content and applications.

Mobile operator 3 has revealed that users on the move overwhelmingly opt for social networking services Facebook and Bebo.

The company said this morning that Facebook and Bebo accounted for approximately 43pc of customer usage with a clear division for Facebook as the site of choice for pay monthly customers and Bebo the preference for the younger pre-pay market.

Bebo has partnered with mobile phone company Samsung and production company Endemol to create an online music show.

Beat will take the form of a daily magazine show and will launch on the social network on 19 June.

The show is part of a wider partnership between Samsung and Bebo which will see the former provide content on a range of Bebo channels.

Samsung Mobile UK, one of the leading mobile phone providers, on May 27 announced a strategic partnership with AOL owned Bebo, launching Samsung’s biggest social networking collaboration ever.

"The partnership will include a number of core strands including: the opportunity to provide content for the Bebo music homepage, eight monthly live events, ‘Samsung Bebo Nights Live at the Gibson Guitar Studio’, a Samsung music profile and ground breaking original programming with new music show ‘Beat’, produced by Endemol.

Virgin Media is the latest company to join Bebo’s Open Mobile program. Under the terms of the deal, the two companies [Virgin Media and Bebo] will deploy:

* Bebo Open Mobile Internet - customized version of the Bebo mobile site with Virgin Media navigation, support for mobile advertising and customized Virgin Media features. Virgin Media has also pre-loaded bookmarks and other Bebo services on Virgin Media mobile phones, so that Bebo mobile services are available immediately to phone buyers.
* Bebo Open Mobile Messaging - Virgin Media’s mobile customers can immediately receive alerts and updates through the 22326 (BEBO) short code. Using the short code, users can update their Bebo profile, participate in polls and interact with friends.

3 Ireland is the latest network to adopt the Bebo Open Mobile programme, which is designed to enable third parties to offer and integrate with the eponymous social networking site in double quick time.

Specifically, 3 Ireland is launching the Bebo Open Mobile Messaging and Media toolkit, which will allow its customers to connect directly to friends by text and watch free video content.

AOL People Networks has announced the launch of Bebo across a series of key European territories, and opened its doors to established and emerging media brands AlloCiné, Clipfish, Telecom Italia owned Yalp!, Diagonal View and Preview Networks’ Filmtrailer.

Bebo is a social experience that helps individuals discover what’s going on with their world and helps the world discover what’s going on with them. Bebo’s Lifestream platform affords users a simple way to connect and keep up with everyone and everything they care about irrespective of which medium they use or where the activity takes place, be it on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace or another site.

Bebo today announced that January mobile page views grew by 44%* and text messaging traffic grew by 13%* month on month following the launch of Bebo Open Mobile.

Bebo Open Mobile is a global program for mobile operators, handset manufacturers and mobile software developers. The initiative offers a suite of tools to support the delivery of the Bebo social networking experience to mobile users and has achieved considerable industry adoption.

AOL's Bebo social-networking site will gain features for lifestreaming, an increasingly popular type of online service that lets people broadcast frequent, brief updates about their lives through photos, videos, blog items, comments and other content.

Lifestreaming posts are often compiled from a variety of other social networks and social media sites and formatted in a chronological, timeline-like interface.

With Bebo announcing its plan to join the mobile social networking bandwagon just recently, O2 has pounced upon the opportunity to make the most of Bebo Open Mobile, an initiative that was launched by the social networking site just over a week ago. This move makes O2 the first ever UK mobile operator to embrace the Bebo Open Mobile technology.

Designed exclusively for mobile service providers, handset makers and mobile software developers, Bebo Open Mobile offers a set of tools to its partners for delivering Bebo social networking experience to mobile users. This means O2 can now enjoy access to the program’s mobile Web, messaging and media equipments to provide exclusive mobile content to its subscribers.

Bebo, a social media network, announced the launch of Bebo Open Mobile, a new global partnership program which will offer the mobile industry a suite of tools to provide their customers access to the Bebo social networking experience. Through the Bebo Open Mobile programme, Bebo will work with operators, handset manufacturers, and mobile software developers to help them promote, distribute, and monetize mobile social media.

Bebo has launched a global mobile initiative to enable operators to use its platform to roll out their own social networks.
Bebo Open Mobile aims to extend the site’s reach by giving operators, handset manufacturers and software developers a set of tools to help them build, distribute and promote a tailored version of the social network.
It launched an online Open Media platform last year and is now looking to replicate this on the mobile platform.
Partners can develop a Bebo mobile site with customised navigation, mobile advertising support and reporting data. They can also use a mobile development API to build applications and widgets to plug into the site.

Bebo, a social networking company that targets an under-30 demographic, has generated a fair amount of news in the broadband TV space over the past few weeks (note: the company’s social networking service has previously served as the home site of a number of high-profile broadband TV series, including

Operators, platform developers urged to keep user experience simple when making social networks mobile. Bebo has called for mobile players to only include basic features when bringing social networks into the mobile market.


"The more complicated you get, the dumber you are: itch basic scratches," [sic] said Sean Kane, global head of mobile at Bebo, an online social network which notched up more than 40 million users by the time it was acquired by AOL in March for $850 million.

Locle is a new mobile phone application that lets users see where their friends and family are without the need for GPS or mobile network operator location based services. Locle integrates with social application platforms such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace to bring web-like social networking functionality to the phone.

Yahoo! is preparing to launch a social-networking application for smart-phone users called oneConnect, following successful previews in the US.

The application will allow users to integrate all their contacts from their Yahoo! Address Book and selected social networks onto their smartphone.

They will then be able to send instant or SMS messages, post their status, and view the latest activity from social networks. An initial version is due to be released in the US on Friday (September 26) and a UK version is due to follow early next year.

The initial version will support Bebo, Dopplr, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Last.fm, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube.

We are a social network that allows you to keep in contact with your friends and associates, share, push and pull content with all the other social places - including, but not limited, to Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, Blogger and more - which means from youmeo you can manage and update your identities with one login. We have just over 400,000 users now and we aim to exceed 1 million registrations by Christmas."