BBC to develop social networking Web sites

by liamssoft | January 11, 2007 at 06:43 pm | 517 views | 3 comments

We Media Reception at Reuters HQ in London

BBC's Head: Web 2.0 More Disruptive to Media

LONDON (Reuters) - The
British Broadcasting Corporation plans to develop its online presence
by providing social networking sites based on its most popular brands
such as Top Gear, a BBC spokeswoman said on Thursday.

The
world-renowned broadcaster is looking to tap into the popularity of
such sites as MySpace, in which users contribute comments and video
footage to share with other users.

The spokeswoman for BBC
Worldwide, the commercial arm of the corporation, said there was no
time plan in place but that it expected to continue to develop its
online service over the next year.

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Reuters group of companies around the world. 11 January 2007 source: http://www.northantsnews.com

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mtippett

at 19:03 on January 11th, 2007

good stuff:

Your story is now on the home page for awhile, and everywhere else the “good stuff” box shows up. Many thanks for your great work.

liamssoft

at 05:30 on January 12th, 2007

Thank you

hayao

at 08:43 on February 7th, 2007

Social Networking sites by the BBC are sure-fire hit and this early, I could not wait any longer as I've known how very much the BBC embraced technology, much more the world wide web realm. Hope that the company will continue to deliver good, quality service it is known for in the past years. Yes, I've learned too about BBC News' citizen journalism site but hope that it could grow more in the future just like NowPublic.comm, which is currently one of the best in this side of the world.