Today Bebo is announcing an exciting new online music show 'Beat', in partnership with Samsung Mobile UK, produced by Endemol. Hosted by recent 4 Talent award winner Ben Chancellor, Beat will present viewers with constantly evolving music news, engaging daily videos, big name interviews, cutting edge talent, competitions galore and exclusive live performances from the hottest bands. Each week Ben will be joined by an avid Beat viewer and competition winner to report on all the latest music news from this summer's biggest festivals and gigs
from around the UK. From Glasgow to Greenwich, Beat's roving reporters will cover the eclectic music tastes of the nation.

Samsung will also be taking over the UK content for the Bebo music homepage, working with Bebo on eight monthly live events, 'Samsung Bebo Nights Live at the Gibson Guitar Studio,' with an interactive Samsung music profile to support all the activity. A first for both Samsung and Bebo, the goal of the collaboration is to excite music

Bebo was honored by 2009 Webware 100 Awards, which names the best Web 2.0 sites, services and applications on the Internet that are leading the next wave of innovation. Bebo was voted a winner in the Social Networking & Publishing category. More than 630,000 votes were cast by the Web 2.0 user community in the online voting poll. Finalists were selected from the thousands of entries received by the editors of CNET's site Webware.

All of the winners can be found at http://www.webware.com/100.

Dear Pixnay users,

We regret to inform you that Pixnay has officially closed down. Thank you for being part of the Pixnay community. We urge you to keep in touch with the people you may have developed friendships with on the site. If you have their screen names or email addresses, add them to your Buddy List on AIM 6.9.

Thanks for supporting Pixnay!

Sincerely,

The Pixnay Team

Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) will soon be launching Socialthing™ across WBTVG's digital destination businesses, such as CWTV.com , TheWB.com , KidsWB.com, DCHeroZone.com, Essence.com and Momlogic.com.

WBTVG will embed the Socialthing platform – free to users and requiring no installation or download – on its family of sites, creating a social experience that makes it easy for users to share content, connect with one another, and explore common passions in a number of ways:

• Users can publish their online activities in a real-time feed that is distributed to their friends for the immediate sharing of experiences. WBTVG will use this feed to create online identities for characters from its popular TV shows, such as Serena van der Woodsen or Blair Waldorf from "Gossip Girl," enabling fans to follow not only their friends' lives, but also their favorite characters' lives online. WBTVG will also post breaking news into the feed, delivering the latest information instantly to fans and spurring further discussion.

• Built-in communications tools will enable users to connect with buddies and other fans through AIM within the environment of the WBTVG site they have come to visit, allowing them to remain at their target destination without having to leave the site experience for another domain. Socialthing users can meet up with fans in chatrooms using the embedded AIM chat client, or speak directly to buddies via the built-in Instant Messenger. Users can connect and converse with all of their friends and other fans, and broadcast these activities to anyone on the web, if they choose, via the real-time feed.

• Socialthing also makes it easy for users to share video, photos, articles and comments with their friend networks, starting with the AIM network and in the future adding other top networks including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Whether it's a hot new shot from "Gossip Girl" at CWTV.com, a new episode of "Rockville CA" at TheWB.com, fashion and beauty advice from Essence.com, the "Conception Diaries" video series at Momlogic.com, or a new superhero game from KidsWB.com or DCHeroZone.com, Socialthing easily turns content into conversation and will allow users to deliver video and images to friends.

• Socialthing will make it easy to sign-on, allowing users to login to sites using their AOL or AIM credentials, without having to create a new account. In the future, users will also be able to log into Socialthing using their Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo! or OpenID credentials.

We are pleased to announce Socialthing™, a new platform that brings social networking services to the great websites that you know and love. Socialthing recently launched on 'TheBoot', America's favourite country music destination, and keep your eyes peeled as it will soon be launching on 'Cinematical', the blog for all you movie enthusiasts.

What's great about Socialthing is that as an AOL, AIM or ICQ user, you are already a member and can log in just like you normally would on AOL, AIM or ICQ. You'll be able to chat in a chat room on each website that has Socialthing and send messages to your AIM and ICQ buddies while on your favourite website. You can also keep track of your buddies with the update feed, allowing you to keep up to date with their activities across the Web.



Check it out now!

Hey AIM Users!

We're excited to present AIM 6.9! This newest version of AIM has a bunch of new features that we know you'll love.

• Get status updates from your friends on Twitter, Bebo and YouTube. AIM 6.9 allows you to get updates from your friends who are on AIM, and from other social networks. These updates come straight from your Buddy List and Buddy Info.

• Missing someone from your Buddy List? Find them easily with simple look up tools. Enter a friend's email address and the new friend finder tool will look up their Screen Name for you.

• Send IMs directly to your friends' cell phones using AIM and forward messages to your cell phone when you go offline.

• Enjoy all the features you've grown to depend on from AIM like cool expressions, picture share, video chat and plugins.

Want to send your feedback? Please go to (Buddy List > Help Menu > Feedback) and the AIM team will try to answer your questions. When filling out the form please complete the email portion of the feedback field, so the AIM team can respond if applicable.

Download the New AIM 6.9 Now!

Thanks!

The AIM Team