Bebo and Yahoo in $1 billion purchase talks

Rumours of Bebo and Yahoo are rife. Michael Birch (British born) founded the site with his American wife, Xochi, in 2005. They both now live in the U.S. but the Bebo site has a serious UK following. I’d argue its reach and future potential are less than that of Facebook (which turned down a $1 billion Yahoo offer some time ago). Bebo’s brand is attractive to a slightly younger demographic than Yahoo – and in my mind that’s bad. The young people are, the more they change; if they change, they change their brand taste.

In anycase, should it go through it will make Michael the next Internet multi-millionaire; so best of all luck to him!

More on the story at the Telegraph and Mashable 

Top ten countries for DSL / broadband (Q2 2007)

Stolen with honesty from Vecosys.com (they are on my blogroll afterall) the top ten countries for DSL:

The top ten at a glance:

• France - The highest levels of innovation in Europe.
  
• Germany - Deutsche Telekom’s strong positioning.
  
• Hong Kong - A unique DSL market.
  
• Italy – The worst competitive situation.
  
• Japan – Late starter, now world leader.
  
• Korea - Forward-thinking operators invest.
  
• Netherlands - High prices and consolidation.
  
• Taiwan - The highest consumer DSL penetration.
  
• USA - Market share changes as Fiber rolls out.
  
• UK - The most competitive of the top ten.

Copycat copycat bakers man, bake me a website as fast as you can

There does seem to be a lot of blatant ripping off going on at the moment. Twitter having a German rogue leader (but I cant stand Twitter so I hope they peck themselves to death!) and meanwhile even the big boys have apparently been at it, with AOL seemingly getting all copycat on Yahoo…

Copycat?  OK. Sorry. Shockingly bad joke.

“Park Avenue, we have a problem…”

Adobe’s Apollo looks set to go head to head with Microsofts’ shiny new Silverlight. Not sure what I’m talking about, let ValleyWag helpout (click)

(345 Park Avenue is Adobe’s San Jose HQ