AOL acquires Bebo – and increase in social network advertising

AOL in talks to acquire Bebo: AOL has entered into an agreement to acquire Bebo for US$850 million in cash, but the deal could upset Yahoo!7’s Australian ad-sales partnership with the third-ranked social networking site. Bebo grew its worldwide monthly audience 76% to 22 million in the year to January 2008, but still lags far…

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Australia ROI: Investment and Revenue in Social Networks

I wrote a few paragraphs recently for The Venture Group newsletter – the pdfs from that issue are gone, but what I wrote seems to be popular. Note the top right: in the next years the market for web 2.0 companies will get standardized. It seems to me that investment companies really do want to…

Australia: AdNews wrong again

Action: Vote this up, please?Hello? 2 months too late Mark Chenery! from AdNews Latest News: SYDNEY: Australia’s first social news website, Kwoff.com.au, was officially launched today, allowing members to recommend and vote for their favourite news stories. I suppose my little dinky social news site Bloggerati Australia doesn’t count? *pouts* Ok, i agree, it’s a…

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