AOL purchased Bebo, a social-media Web site, for $850 million in March. Now Bebo is looking to gain market share against rivals Facebook and MySpace by making it easier to manage communications.

AOL on Wednesday said Bebo is now giving users a one-stop “social inbox” that combines e-mail, social networking, and media recommendations in a singled-out interface.

Specifically, Bebo’s social inbox offers one-click access to Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, and user-selected media favorites such as videos,

music and photos. More than 100 million AOL and AIM users can log into the Bebo service using existing screen names. The inbox aggregates feeds and updates from Twitter, Flickr, Del.icio.us, YouTube, AIM and others, so users can see what’s happening in their online world.

Fixing a Fragmented Environment

“People want the ability to stay in touch with their contacts in real day wherever their friends may be across the Web,” […]

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