It looks like Bebo is aiming to attract new users from the oversaturated social networks by becoming sort of an all-in-one page. You can now check your mail, listen to music, watch videos, chat via AOL’s AIM, add widgets and let others see your Twitter/Facebook/MySpace updates – all in your profile. In short – all your internet social life up in one place. But one question remains – why should you use Bebo then? They can get practically the same at AOL, SocialThing, Profilactic, partly Yahoo and many others. But the social network part? It can be had anywhere, namely Facebook, which has already surpassed Bebo in its supposedly largest markets – the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Although it offers some unique features, the rest looks like a swift emulation with no soul, with an exception at Bebo’s music pages which allow you to add the songs to playlists, as well as the service clearly understands its scarce position in the market – if the visitors can’t go to Facebook just because they use Bebo, they won’t go to Bebo as far as they’re concerned. Bebo will continue to get fewer and fewer visitors each month, but some users will stay as a stable membership base, as the site can be valuable to some people. Some people. That clearly isn’t enough for AOL’s money.

Bebo witnessed an astonishing 50% growth rate during March 2009 when AOL launched the aforementioned merging of the accounts, but it just doesn’t stick, as the users from AIM visited Bebo because of the notifications they received, but simply didn’t know what they can do within the site. The site’s targeted to teens and students, but that doesn’t click with the number of visitors that Facebook or MySpace get.

While it’s interesting to see what Bebo will offer in the future, it looks as though they’re facing an uphill battle. AOL can literally see their cash burning when they look at the declining popularity of Bebo. Whatever Bebo will bring to the table, it has to be something really, really big if they still want to remain in the big market. The direction Bebo is going to is not firmly set in terms of conquering the market, and lost souls, as well as lost social networks, seldom find their way back home.

Because links are still links, and although they won’t help your search engine rankings, you can still profit from them. Aside from the obvious (the links will bring in traffic), there are other things that good links on Twitter can do for you. Link building should be that of your primary concern (aside from giving value to the Twitter community with interesting Tweets, that is).

Everyone would gladly go in more detail on how to gather a wall of followers that would be greater than the Great Wall of China, except for the simple fact that it’s too easy to write about. Just put up a search at Twitter for keywords of your niche, follow the people writing about them, write your own interesting stuff and voila – you now are a proud owner of a user base that’s quite targeted. If you’re picky enough, you can only follow people that have their own sites, because you only want to target them. Or not to, if the niche you’re targeting is quite small.

It’s easy to work once you have a user base. Most of the things you need to do are too obvious to mention. The key, the Rosetta Stone of Twitter link building is that you should never forget that you need to offer an awful lot of value in order to build links through Twitter. Most of the people on Twitter have more than just a blog, they have their own sites, maybe they’re from a government-related institution and they’ll link you just like that.

A smart thing to do is to set up a Twitter search to the address of your URL (although you may miss something because of the shortening services), write/get valuable content and wait for the links. Once you figure out the way that you’re getting that attention, you’ll soon be able to repeat the process with relative ease. Valuable content is crucial because if you want to build links, you will need someone to RT (retweet) your tweets with links in them.

All in all, link building through Twitter is not a waste of time only if you find professionals of your niche and build mutual relationships with them by connecting with them regularly. That way you will not only build good links from trusted sites, but you’ll also stay connected to the news of your niche. Don’t worry if links don’t come too well, because the main thing that Twitter accounts for sellers is the incredibly targeted traffic it brings.

Other highlights of the Kelsey Group/ConStat report: In October 2008, 15.6 percent of subscribers searched the mobile web for local products or services (compared to 9.8 percent in September 2007), 14.3 percent searched the mobile web for products or services outside of their local area (compared to 6.4 percent), 13.7 percent accessed mobile for information on movies or other entertainment (compared to 8.2 percent), 11.7 percent accessed info on restaurants or bars (compared to 9.0 percent) and 8.4 percent watched or purchased a mobile video clip (compared to 4.4 percent).

As expected, mobile users are big users of social networks. Social networks are hitting critical mass, and heavy users of them want access, regardless of where they’re at.

The social networking space, especially for mobile users, remains healthy.

Many of the member artists have supported successful viral campaigns and contests for PepsiCo, Sony, Scion and gaming site Three Rings through their artwork. The works become viral by sharing the embed code through widgets on other social media sites and profiles. Some, sold as prints, as well as reproductions on t-shirts and apparel, would have included pieces by artists to promote the movie “The Uninvited.”

Of course viral loses a bit of its’ organic appeal when the media is reporting on your efforts.

“Our services on Facebook attract millions of users and we are excited to support OpenSocial networks and the thousands of developers building applications across that platform,” said Mahi de Silva, Frengo CEO. “We learned very quickly that social networking has no geographic boundaries and are especially excited about social networks extending the reach of fun, social experiences to places where the Internet is more likely to be accessed on a mobile phone than a PC. Mobility brings a level of intimacy and convenience, making it easy for people to stay connected in ways not possible on a PC.”

Frengo also has some nice options for users of Hi5.

“As we launch third-party applications to hi5 members, we’re pleased to include ones that are already mobile enabled,” said Ramu Yalamanchi, CEO of hi5 Networks, Inc., the leading social network in over 20 nations, a founding adopter of OpenSocial, and the 8th most-trafficked website in the world. “We think it’s great that Frengo’s OpenSocial mobile toolkit is helping to bring mobile applications to our 80 million registered members.”

Look for more out of Frengo in coming months.