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Social networking service (and recent AOL acquisition) Bebo has announced a new “Social Inbox,” aiming to offer a one-stop online location where users can access their email, get their social networking fix, and learn about new “media recommendations.” The idea is that instead of having to log into a myriad of social media and online lifestyle sites, users can just navigate to a single Bebo inbox and get all the stuff that matters to them.
In a leaked internal memo, recently re-installed CEO Michael Dell indicated that his namesake computer company may be considering entering the traditional retail channel as a way to boslter its declining market share. According to Reuters, the memo reads in part: “The Direct Model has been a revolution, but is not a religion.”
The memo did not state whether Dell would seek to sell computers through its own branded retail stores—a strategy employed successfully by Apple&mdahs;or seek to enter into existing consumer electronics outlets like Best Buy, Frys, and Circuit City.
If, as a consumer, you’ve ever felt that the world’s largest companies are perhaps a little over-eager to point a red-hot iron at your posterior, you’ll be happy to know Internet titan Yahoo is getting ready to help them out even more by launching Brand Universes, portals within the Yahoo network of sites which bring together content, media, and features from across Yahoo’s service offerings into one centralized, themed, and—dare we say?—branded hubs.
Tag – You’re It! Online mega-corp Yahoo has purchased the social networking and bookmarking service del.icio.us. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, but Yahoo is expected to integrate del.icio.us’s tagging and community building technologies into aspects of Yahoo’s own online offerings, including Yahoo Search, recent photo-sharing acquisition Flickr, and Yahoo’s blogging services.
Del.icio.us is difficult to sum up in a sentence, but can be described as a site which builds community via collaboration and social bookmarking. Del.icio.us enables users to store and organize links to favorite sites, articles, music, and other online resources, and tag those items with relevant keywords and other attributes. Users can then discover similar and related items which are categorized using similar keywords, applying the community’s overall knowledge, opinion, and valuation to a wide range of online material. No more blind surfing from search results lists
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