2 em 1: Bebo + MSN Messenger

O social networking site Bebo estabeleceu uma parceria com a Microsoft para disponibilizar aos seus utilizador um serviço de Instant Messaging. A destacar a ideia de "duas janelas em uma" da presidente do ramo internacional do site, Joanna Shileds.

O artigo
Bebo to Add IM Powered by Microsoft
By JESSICA MINTZ
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 21, 2007; 8:27 AM

SEATTLE -- Social-networking site Bebo Inc. said Tuesday it will launch a Microsoft-powered instant-messaging program this fall.
The deal signals early, if niche, support for a Microsoft Corp. plan to build a business around letting other sites incorporate its Windows Live Web services.
The Bebo-branded IM will have limited compatibility with Microsoft's own services, consistent with a tendency for social-networking sites to build "walled" communities with restrictions on who can contact whom and how elsewhere online. IM services also have tended to operate independently, although those walls have started to come down.
Bebo members will be able to click a link to start an IM session with any other Bebo member, even if neither has a Windows Live ID, the sign-on used for Hotmail and other Microsoft services.
They'll also be able to exchange messages with Bebo friends who aren't logged on, but who are using Microsoft's regular Windows Live Messenger program.

in The Washington Post

A citação

"Why have two windows open when you can do everything in one environment?"
- Joanna Shields, presidente do ramo internacional do social networking site Bebo