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Bebo was founded by husband-and-wife team Michael and Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home in San Francisco. [1] The website name was bought by the founders, and the backronym "Blog Early, Blog Often" was invented to answer the question of what the name meant. [2] [3]
Birch and Xochi later founded the online social networking website Bebo in January 2005, with a major launch in July 2005. In 2007, Bebo had over 45 million registered users and was the sixth most popular site in the UK, bigger than AOL, Amazon.co.uk and bbc.co.uk. Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL in March 2008 for $850 million.
Xochi Birch OBE ( / ˈsoʊtʃi /) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur in San Francisco, California. She is the co-founder of several companies since 1999, most notably the online social networking website Bebo, with her husband Michael Birch. [1] She and Michael also founded several domains, with support from Paul Birch and ...
Bebo is purchased from Criterion Capitol Partners for $1 million by Bebo's founders. 2013 Launch Instant messaging and video/voice calling service Google Hangouts launches. 2013 Launch Telegram, launches service for exchange messages, share media, files, live location, hold private and group voice or video calls, as well public livestreams.
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo (usually exceeding 200 bpm), complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references ...
Bebo Norman's album, Ocean, released on September 28, 2010, is a personal album, according to Norman, that covers the discovery of his true identity and the battle between fear and faith. The singer/songwriter told CBN.com that he hopes Ocean causes listeners to "look internally… at where they draw their own identity from.
www .chucho-valdes .com. Dionisio Jesús Valdés Rodríguez, better known as Chucho (born October 9, 1941), is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger whose career spans over 50 years. An original member of the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, in 1973 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands.
Bebo Valdés. Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro (October 9, 1918 – March 22, 2013), better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, especially due to his big band arrangements and compositions of mambo, chachachá and batanga, a genre he created ...