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This morning after AOL said it would spend $850 million to buy social networking site Bebo, I had a chance to chat with Ron Grant, AOL’s chief operating officer. What follows is an edited version of our conversation.
OM: Why Bebo?
GRANT: Bebo is one of the best social media companies out there. They are more than [...]

Today’s Question of the Day comes from early Found|READ contributor, Sanchit Bhatnagar, cofounder of a New Delhi-based webshop called Toufee, where consumers can make Flash-based movies. (Obviously, San’s been burning the candle!) Here is San’s MySpace profile, too.

San wants advice on what kind of membership model works best for monetization and customer growth purposes on […]

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Following on the Open Social support of the MySpace Developer Platform, Google has launched services for programmers planning to use Open Social to build applications for its Orkut social network, including a hackathon scheduled for Feb. 14-15 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., as well as forums and chat. End users should be […]

As we’ve already noted, MySpace plans to hold a meeting for developers interested in building applications for the No. 1 social network. MySpace CTO Aber Whitcomb told us the company expects about 250 developers to show up to learn about the new development platform.