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Is Bebo's Recent Growth Sustainable?

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When Mashable wrote earlier this month about "The New Bebo", it caught our interest - any social network that can claim 50% growth in a single month raises a few eyebrows, to be sure. But when we looked into it and realized how the second-tier social network achieved this feat of unparalleled growth, one thing become apparent to me - this kind of growth is probably not sustainable.

Bebo's entire growth spurt revolves around the fact that it was acquired last month by America Online (AOL), along with up-and-coming 'lifestreaming" service Social Thing. How does...

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Bebo Founder Recovering from Open Heart Surgery

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The founder of bebo, Michael Birch had open heart surgery in December in Califronia.  He told the Daily Telegraph:

"I had it on December 22nd in America. It was open heart surgery. I had a leaking valve. I have known about it for eight years. It was benign, but then it stopped being benign and it made my heart enlarge and I was having heart palpitations.

It went well. But a fairly common complications after is that you have fluid in the chest cavity. I have just got out of hospital. I was in Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, which is the largest heart and lung hospital...

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Bebo Blatantly copies Twitter with a service almost exactly the same!

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Pete Cashmore has a blog post that covers this well with a screenshot so I won't repeat the details here. 

This brings up the question, where does the line get drawn with others copying? Being copied is supposed to be the ultimate form of flattery but.. facebook put twitter-like functionality, now bebo, next My Space, Flickr and everyone else (guessing here!). The good thing for Twitter is that they have momentum and a community starting around their service. They also have the brand name so I think it would be difficult for a new standalone Twitter to be successful. A...