AOL's social networking site Bebo may soon be  joining the dead pool or if AOL is lucky enough it may be joining another company. According to a memo by AOL Ventures EVP Jon Brod, AOL admits that social networking is a very competitive space on the web which AOL found difficult to compete with its own social networking site - Bebo.

Among the location-based social networking startups that are making waves right now, I've always believed that Foursquare has the biggest potential to make it big, if it is not that big right now. Foursquare has every good things going for them - increasing usage, new mobile features here and there, and of course prospective buyers including Yahoo. In fact, Yahoo may seem to be the most serious among  the Internet players who wants to snag the hot social mobile platform.

As if the noise created by Google Buzz on Gmail for desktop is not enough, Google has just integrated Google Buzz to Gmail for Mobile. So, the next time you access your Gmail account on your iPhone or Android devices using your phone's browser to access gmail.com, you'd noticed that when you check the "menu" , Buzz is now added as an option. According to Google : With the latest iteration of Gmail for mobile, we've worked to integrate buzz with your mobile inbox.

Aside from Twitter  and Social Networking apps, another interesting set of apps available right now on the iPad App Store are search-related. I scoured through the App Store to get the most significant of these search-related iPad apps - and found 8 of them. Here are 8 search-related apps that you might want to check out. Zillow Real Estate Search This iPad app lets you view photo galleries of home's on the iPad's large screen and tap, swipe,

Anytime now, when you click on the Buzz tab on your Gmail account Google will ask you to confirm or change your privacy settings. The announcement is yet to be posted by Google but both Mashable and BBC News have spilled the beans out that Google will be admitting that they  "didn't get everything right."  Hence, it has been carrying some serious privacy tweaks since Google Buzz was launched.

Finally, Google has addressed one of the Buzz kills we mentioned a long time ago - making buzz posts with tons of comments collapsible. According to Google when there are enough comments on Buzz posts,

Google has just announced that the iPad is now part of the mobile device options in AdWords.  This means that AdWords advertiser can easily extend the reach of their current ad campaigns to the iPad . If you want your ad campaigns to appear on the iPad and other tablets as well, you simply have to select "all mobile devices" in your campaign settings. This can be found under the "Networks and devices" section.  Alternatively,

When Digg announced its Digg for iPhone app a couple of weeks ago, for awhile I thought nobody would noticed it as I'm beginning to think that Digg is losing its popularity. But I was wrong. Digg for iPhone app managed to get several thousands of downloads. In short it was a pretty successful stint. And so to follow it up, Digg has also released another mobile version , this time for Android devices. Just like its iPhone version,

Aside from Google Yahoo is also making its presence felt in the iPad party. For Yahoo's part it's by way of making its entertainment portal iPad-ready.   Yahoo Entertaiment for iPad offers an iPad-friendly user interface for exploring entertainment content, television listings, videos, news and more.

A few more hours before the iPad starts arriving on those who pre-ordered it for the last two weeks or so, and with the excitement building up, Google has also joined the iPad frenzy. The Google Mobile Blog is reporting that they have done some preparations to optimize Google's mobile offering for the iPad's large touchscreen, portability, and  rich sensors. These enhancements are more like right-fitting the services for the iPad,

Google just acquired a new startup, this time specializing on online video platform for broadcasting both live and on-demand content to the web or any web enabled device. The startup called Episodic officially announced the acquisition . Episodic is a video publishing platform consist of six functional areas - video content management, content ingest and encoding, adaptive bitrate playback, monetization through advertising, and credit card transactions,

If you're a Yahoo Publisher Network member, chances are you might have received an email notification already stating that Yahoo is about to close down the service on April 30. According to the email, Yahoo is asking YPN members to remove the YPN codes from all of their sites and Yahoo will be paying outstanding YPN revenues by May 31, 2010.

Google has just launched Google Ad Innovations, sort of a Google Lab this time for its many advertising products that it is currently experimenting on.  Google Ad Innovations will showcase Google's latest idea around advertising technologies to get, well our feedback. Google Ad Innovations currently has several new advertising products that Google may or may not release in the future.

Twitter has started rolling out a new design of its homepage , the page that loads on your browser when you visit Twitter.com and you are not signed in to your Twitter account. Actually it's not so much of aesthetic redesign but more on what are displayed on the homepage. Previously, Twitter.com just gives you the large Twitter header containing Twitter logo, search box, the famous tagline that says "Share and Discover What's Happening Right Now, Anywhere in the World,

Google has just rolled out its AdWords for Mobile applications that should run on the iPhone, Android and Palm Pre devices. AdWords for Mobile provides mobile access to your account, key alerts and statistics as well as a facility to make quick changes to your AdWords settings even while on the move. AdWords for Mobile lets you select parts of your AdWords account that you want to monitor and access using your mobile phones.

Mobile Metrics firm Admob's February report is showing some interesting trend in the mobile market today. Specifically, Admob's report indicates that smartphone's worldwide traffic is rising with February's market share growing to 48% in February 2010 as compared to 35% in the same month last year. In addition and perhaps more interestingly, worldwide traffic of  the iPhone OS and Android phones is quite significant not to take notice of.

Facebook will soon be changing the "Become a Fan" button that you see on Fan Pages to the more universal "Like" button. According to the site Clickz , Facebook has started sending confidential email to ad agencies informing them that the "Become a Fan" button which functions as a subscription/membership button  to fan pages will be changed to "Like" button within the next few weeks. And what could be the reason for the upcoming change?  Unfortunately,

The Facebook folks are definitely up and about these past few days, preparing one new feature after another.  You might have read about the Like button and the auto-connect feature that it plans to launch.  And now the latest Facebook feature that might soon hit us all is the new Facebook toolbar. The Facebook toolbar is not your ordinary toolbar that goes away with the page that you just left. Instead, this will be a persistent toolbar,

If you are maintaining a Facebook page, you might have received an email from Facebook containing a summary of the activities that happened in the past on your Facebook pages. This started last week, and a couple of hours ago I received another email again.  While the page analytics contain just some basic data about your page's activities, its interesting to know that Facebook actually compiles all these activities.

With the deadline for Google's call for request for information on various communities to host their fiber network project already closed, Google has reportedly receive 194,000 individual responses and around 1, 100 community responses.  That only goes to show that people want Google to build its fiber network project no matter what the stakes will be for their communities.