This is a place for all employees of Bebo to blog about anything they like, work related or not, in company time or their own time. Employees are free to say what they like with a few common sense guidelines such as: don't be rude to anyone, don't discuss trade secrets etc. Come back here whenever you like to find out what is going on at Bebo and to learn a little more about the very small team behind Bebo. |  |  |  | | Custom Widget Modules | 15 days ago | | |  | Yo, you can now put your widgets into their own stand-alone modules, which you can position and name as you like! So you could make your voice comments widget stay on your page even as you add slideshows, or you could put 1 slideshow at the top of your page and remove the rest of your widgets if you wanted to. It's up to you!
To get started: click "View" on a widget then click "Create Custom Module" and give it a name. Voila! Your widget is in it's own module on the top of the right column! Tired of it? You can put it in Unused Modules, or just Delete it and the widget runs back to the Widgets area. Can't wait to see what module names you guys come up with... |  | | | posted by Darius | 271 Comments |  |  |  | | Sorted | 23 days ago | | |  | Change the order of the modules on your profile. Click on 'Order Modules' below your profile photo then just drag on drop.
Lets us know what you think of it and what you want next. |  | | | posted by Michael Birch | 450 Comments |  |  |  | | Disapp-ear-ance! | 29 days ago | | |  | Bebo's ears have gone missing! If you see these ears, please leave a
comment below with their location. They've got to be ear somewhere. |  | | | posted by Darius | 7858 Comments |  |  |  | | Summer Internship | 34 days ago | | |  | Business Development Internship
Bebo (www.bebo.com) is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand and it is growing quickly in the United States, Australia and Canada. Officially launched in July 2005, Bebo has more than 31 million registered members viewing over 5 billion monthly page views. Bebo received the ‘People’s Voice’ Award at the 10th Annual Webby Awards for the world’s ‘Best Social Networking Web Site of 2006’.
The executive team has a significant background in the viral marketing and the online social networking space starting up and building companies such as BirthdayAlarm, Ringo (now Tickle) and Friendster. Located principally in San Francisco, with other offices in London and Austin, Bebo closed its first round of funding ($15MM) in May 2006, led by Benchmark Capital.
Responsibilities:
- Create and foster partnerships with Record Labels to promote their artists on Bebo.
- Liaison with record labels, publicists and artists to help effectively promote their music on Bebo
- Identify and execute business development opportunities around the Bebo Music Product
- Review, approve and promote indy music and artists on Bebo
- Contribute ideas and feedback to improve the Bebo Music Product
General Requirements:
- Superior written, oral, presentation and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment (we are a startup!) and manage multiple projects simultaneously within tight deadlines
- Enthusiasm, creativity and a desire to work as part of an innovative team
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Students and recent graduates are encouraged to apply
- Flexible schedule, able to coordinate with Bebo’s office in London outside of regular US business hours (late or early)
We offer a competitive salary & benefits and an outstanding working environment. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please send resumes to [email protected] |  | | | posted by Xochi Birch | 122 Comments |  |  |  | | Happy St. Paddy's Day - Bebo is #1 in Ireland! | 44 days ago | | |  | Guess what day it is? My birthday! You may also know it as St. Patrick's Day! I just wanted to tell everyone HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!! Show your green spirit with a St. Paddy's day themed slideshow or widget! Also, you might have seen a few 4 leafed clovers on the site today. We thought you might like that. Just type < clover > (without the spaces) to get one in your blog/comments/whiteboard.
Oh yeah, did we forget to mention? Bebo is now the #1 website in all of Ireland! Big news, we're even bigger Google! We love you Ireland!
|  | | | posted by Ritz Torres | 10126 Comments |  |  |  | | Red Nose Day! | 45 days ago | | |  | Happy Red nose day to those of you in the UK! We added a little something special to the site today in honor of this special day. You may start noticing a new "red nose" smilie around the site today. See if you can figure out how to add this new smilie to your blogs, comments and whiteboards!
|  | | | posted by Jose Hernandez | 1005 Comments |  |  |  | | Dropping Daylight Music Video | 62 days ago | | |  | Hey Beboers,
We shot a music video last Saturday with Dropping Daylight, a rock band that is currently touring with Army of Anyone. They were in town (San Francisco) and stopped by our neighborhood to give us a private performance. We hope you enjoy the video!
Swing by http://droppingdaylight.bebo.com and leave a comment! |  | | | posted by Jose Hernandez | 94 Comments |  |  |  | | New Widget! | 67 days ago | | |  | | We've added a new widget from MyHeritage.com to show you which celebrities you look like the most. All you have to do is go to “Create a Widget” on “My Profile” and navigate your way to MyHeritage.com to “Create Celebrity Look-alike Collage”. Mine told me I have similar characteristics with Sara Evans, Blake Lively, Mariah Carrey and Emma Watson. Let me know who you guys look like! |  | | | posted by Ritz Torres | 140 Comments |  |  |  | | Photo Polls | 74 days ago | | |  | We have yet another cool new feature to announce. Now you can add photos to polls. It's pretty simple to use, just go to your profile and create a new poll. You will see a link that says "add photo". Now, each choice in your poll can have a photo instead of just text. So, now you can do polls like "what outfit looks best on me?" or "which one of these babes is the fittest?" or even "which one of these people is actually me?" (in case you forget). We will be using photo polls later this week in our t-shirt contest (http://tshirts.bebo.com) to determine the winner of the people's choice award. We hope y'all like this new feature, let us know.
Also, if you come up with a really creative photo poll, go ahead and post a comment to this blog post and let everyone know about it.
~jose |  | | | posted by Jose Hernandez | 149 Comments |  |  |  | | new talent.. | 75 days ago | | |  | | I don’t often blog, but wanted to share my excitement following an awesome gig which took place in the heart of London at the end of last week. The singer songwriter Amy MacDonald gave an inspired performance and at only 18 years old she’s one artist you should watch out for! http://amymacdonaldmusic.bebo.com)) |  | | | posted by Sarah Gavin | 83 Comments |  |  |  | |
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