AOL is pursuing its plan to upgrade the Bebo social network it purchased back in 2008 by making it more functional with the social data aggregator SocialThing that it bought last year as well.
Last December, Bebo launched Social Inbox, which aggregates a user’s friends’ activities from their online social life, irrespectively of the network the latter have chosen to work with.
Bebo’s “Social Inbox” feature allows you to see updates from people you are connected to via any service, by aggregating them into your inbox on the site. All you need to do is provide the service with your user ID on all the other websites you are a member of and Bebo will make sure you know what your friends are doing.
Now, AOL has introduced a new feature called Lifestream, which gathers data from the Bebo user’s external sites and adds them into one data stream that can be accessed by any Bebo friend.
On Monday, the company revealed a series of other tools, yet some of them would not be made available to users immediately.
One of the aforementioned is Lifestory, which gathers a user’s photos and events and puts them into an album player that automatically separates them into groups based on the date they were taken.
Moreover, AOL will add a Social Slider tool to Bebo, which will enable users to tag every information or content on the social network as appropriate for people falling into categories such as friends, family or inner circle.
By Jenny Huntington
February 23rd 2009
source: auctionbytes.com