Bebo’s Social Inbox

Bebo has just released a new social media tool, Social Inbox, which collects and organises feeds from Twitter, Flickr, Del.icio.us, together with other online services such as Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL Mail, and YouTube.

Bebo wants this new platform to solve the problem facing consumers online, namely, a cluttered and fragmented social networking experience that makes keeping up-to-date with others increasingly difficult.

Social Inbox pools updates and information from other sites into one place, based on technology from newly acquired company Social Thing. Social feeds can be organised in chronological order and grouped by person, and also include a localised RSS feed reader for global news. The site also provides one-click access to email servers, Gmail, Yahoo! and AOL, where users can preview their email without having to go from site to site.

A media favourites section also lists what friends are watching and listening to, pulling content from Bebo's extensive online media collection, with programming from over 500 media companies including MTV, ESPN, CBS and BBC.