Nimble.ie & Bebo

failsafe

Has anybody noticed this website (nimble.ie) creeping up in comments around bebo? I read an article on it, apparently a project by a lad in DIT, which then took off into a commercial venture, poised to be "the next bebo"!

What I was wondering is has anyone joined it? I see alot of comments on other peoples pages, but they all look so generic as if they're being left by a bot or something. I know bebo did that when they started, asked for your email address and password, then accessed your email and sent a mail to all of your contacts, so I was wondering if this is something similar. Does nimble.ie log into your bebo and leave viral comments on all your friends pages or something?? It's sneaky but I still think it's quite clever, and with the way bebo are going crazy with their a-bit-too-stalkery "changes" section, i wouldn't mind seeing it take of and have some of the cash flow from the social networking craze fall in Irish pockets.


And obviously, a post about Bebo on boards will merit all the "Bebo? Isn't that for 14 old girls" whitty replies, so I look forward to them too!

Feral Mutant

I'd say they were left by a bot, or there's an option to "tell your friends on bebo about this". I've gotten a few and they're identical except for the name. I don't see it taking. The main slogan I've seen for it is that it's an irish bebo, which seems a bit pointless with bebo's popularity in Ireland.

cson

Looking at some of the profiles on bebo.....I fear for the future of literacy in this country. I don't believe for a second we've got 90% literacy rates.

Heisenberg.

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insafehands

Call me cynical, but I'd give 7/2 that the OP has something to do with this website.

And what a shít name too...

EDIT: Those odds have been revised to 3/1.

Reasons:

- "The next Bebo"? - Who said that?
- Taking the effort to type the address again in your post, hmmm, don't really see why that's necessary as it's in the thread title, unless of course, you're trying to "spread the word" as much as possible.
- OP seems to have designed a website already.
- Just smells of an attempt at sly promotion.

Alessandra

I joined purely because I got a load of emails from friends, all generic which I don't thin they actually sent. It's a poor mans bebo. I hate bebo with avengance but this is worse. They allow 12year olds to sign up! There are forums and loads of children between 13-17 appear to be hooked on it. It's still quite basic but the colours and flashiness will be a winner with the teenagers. Also seems to be geared towards dating with options such as 'meeting' and 'market', wtf Personally I don't think any self-respecting adult would use this. I deleted the acc i set up after a quick look. But apparently they've gained a few thousand members in the last week alone. Do we really need another social networking site?

Rhyme

Reminds me of that 'Bebo for DCU' thing a few years back, Ducky.ie or something. We don't need another one of these. Bebo, MySpace, Friendster and Facebook are already too much.

That said, i quite like Bebo, but thats where it ends

phantom_lord

yeah i remember that ducky thing.

nimble wont take off, it's far too late into the market.

marco murphy

Its ****e. Anyway, most of my mates think bebo is irish anyway :P

drdre

i dont think they can take over bebo.The site is crap in my opinion

Savman

insafehands wrote:

Call me cynical, but I'd give 7/2 that the OP has something to do with this websites.

And what a shít name too...

EDIT: Those odds have been revised to 3/1.

Reasons:

- "The next Bebo"? - Who said that?
- Taking the effort to type the address again in your post, hmmm, don't really see why that's necessary as it's in the thread title, unless of course, you're trying to "spread the word" as much as possible.
- OP seems to have designed a website already.
- Just smells of in an attempt at sly promotion.

My initial thoughts also.

failsafe

insafehands wrote:

Call me cynical, but I'd give 7/2 that the OP has something to do with this websites.

And what a shít name too...

EDIT: Those odds have been revised to 3/1.

Reasons:

- "The next Bebo"? - Who said that?
- Taking the effort to type the address again in your post, hmmm, don't really see why that's necessary as it's in the thread title, unless of course, you're trying to "spread the word" as much as possible.
- OP seems to have designed a website already.
- Just smells of in an attempt at sly promotion.

Yeah I actually felt my post was gonna come accross that way! My original title was gonna be something like "nimble - a bit dodgy?" or something to that affect because of the way they run that bebo account hack type thing (if that's what it is) but then I decided to soften on them a bit because I remembered bebo did the same thing with the emails.

To be honest, the whole point of the thread was to enqire if someone had an account, and if these posts i see on bebo automated by a nimble bot, so to speak!

Personally I haven't got an account, and I don't think I would, it looks a bit seedy, going for the "guys and girls who love to flirt" angle. Also, I don't think I'd trust a site that would pull a stunt like that with my personal info (if that is an automated thing!)

Oh and the name in the title and body of the post, who would be that desperate to "spread the word"!!

Create your own page, its free!
The SignUp button has temporarily been removed from the site as there is currently more traffic than the server can handle. Please check back soon as we will increase capacity very shortly! Thanks for your understanding and interest in nimble!

Hah, screwed!

drdre

Deleted User wrote:

Hah, screwed!

Its just a hype there trying to create.

failsafe

Not so sure, first time i went to the site i just got a white screen with "server error." Seems more underprepared than overpopular

gunnery

failsafe: Im curious: when Bebo set up in 2005 did they send out a whole bunch of emails to get people to join or what did they do?

I never heard anything about that before.

Gunnery

By the way, I tried the nimble thing and it seems pretty cool to me.

insafehands

gunnery wrote:

failsafe: Im curious: when Bebo set up in 2005 did they send out a whole bunch of emails to get people to join or what did they do?

I never heard anything about that before.

Gunnery

By the way, I tried the nimble thing and it seems pretty cool to me.

Oh really! I'll go join right now! Great first post by the way...

Mossy Monk

gunnery wrote:

failsafe: Im curious: when Bebo set up in 2005 did they send out a whole bunch of emails to get people to join or what did they do?

I never heard anything about that before.

Gunnery

By the way, I tried the nimble thing and it seems pretty cool to me.

I am sold. What's your 2nd post going to be about?

gunnery

Mossy Monk and insafehands:

Are you people KGB or SS?

Whats with the third degree? Is this a re-enactment Orvilles 1984?
A nation built around suspicion.........

angelbaby

i joined nimble to see what it was like cos i kept hearin about it. it seems to be doing quite well so far cos when i joined about 2weeks ago there were only about 200 members, there's now over 20,000!!!

spurious

The advantage of nimble over bebo (at the moment) is that it's not blocked by the Schools' Filtering System on all computers under the Schools' Broadband scheme.

Nimble Team

Hi All,

Thank you for your feedback above. We are a young Irish start up company and we are still working on making the site better. So I hope we don’t disappoint everyone.

The site has taken off slightly quicker than initially expected and as a result we had to take the sign up button away while upgrading to a faster server. This is now in place.

Re the Bebo thing, Bebo members were able invite their friends through nimble of they wished. We did not at any stage use people’s data incorrectly.

We now have 25K members. And we are always open to suggestions on how to improve the site so please send them on to us. There is a suggestion box within the site in the Forum.

FYI There is a lot of additional functionality on top of the norm of a social networking sites e.g. see who has visited you, ignore function, hot or not, web forum, chat rooms etc etc etc…

Thanks for your support and interest.

See you there,
The Nimble Team

Dyr

gunnery wrote:

Mossy Monk and insafehands:

Are you people KGB or SS?

Whats with the third degree? Is this a re-enactment Orvilles 1984?
A nation built around suspicion.........

Just cos you're paranoid doesnt mean the'yre not out to get you..unfortunately it doesn't mean you're not a shill either, mr shill "shilly" macshill :rolleyes:

failsafe

gunnery wrote:

failsafe: Im curious: when Bebo set up in 2005 did they send out a whole bunch of emails to get people to join or what did they do?

I never heard anything about that before.

Gunnery

By the way, I tried the nimble thing and it seems pretty cool to me.

Even now if you click on the "find friends" link it asks for your email address and password, and I presume then sends out those generic "hi i'm using this service to share my photos...." email to everyone in your address book. I've never done it but that's where i presume those emails come from

Mossy Monk

gunnery wrote:

Mossy Monk and insafehands:

Are you people KGB or SS?

One can only speak for oneself and my answer is no. Thanks for asking though.

Grogg

All,

Seems that the BEBO team are freaking out at the competition.
They are now filtering all reference to the words "NIBMLE.ie".

I'd suggest to all that you use "N1MBLE.ie" or "N I M B L E .ie" to get the message across to other users on BEBO.

I can understand BEBO filtering child porn, rude or intrusive language but this takes the biscuit. I only use BEBO cause my GF wants me on board, I do not use NIMBLE and perhaps never will. I just hate when corps and the big bullies force they way upon the peoples. With this, I'm off BEBO. They truly suck. Just like Yahoo and taking peoples photos from Flickr.com (yes, I was a victim), BEBO now is not worth even farting on IMO.

Just FYI

- Grogg

drdre

Grogg wrote:

All,

Seems that the BEBO team are freaking out at the competition.
They are now filtering all reference to the words "NIBMLE.ie".

I'd suggest to all that you use "N1MBLE.ie" or "N I M B L E .ie" to get the message across to other users on BEBO.

I can understand BEBO filtering child porn, rude or intrusive language but this takes the biscuit. I only use BEBO cause my GF wants me on board, I do not use NIMBLE and perhaps never will. I just hate when corps and the big bullies force they way upon the peoples. With this, I'm off BEBO. They truly suck. Just like Yahoo and taking peoples photos from Flickr.com (yes, I was a victim), BEBO now is not worth even farting on IMO.

Just FYI

- Grogg

Who cares about NIMBLE, i think its a **** site compared to BEBO.

Grogg

I think you are missing my point.

Yes, who cares.

But now BEBO are crossing the line. Free speech and competition are facts of life that should be preserved. I don't care for Nimble myself. Just my freedom.

And you? Hope so.

Karoma

gunnery wrote:

Mossy Monk and insafehands:

Are you people KGB or SS?

Whats with the third degree? Is this a re-enactment Orvilles 1984?
A nation built around suspicion.........

How odd that both you and The Nimble Team seem to share a connection... Let's go ask Big Brother to check and apply any suitable sitebans adjustments if confirmed.

drdre

Grogg wrote:

I think you are missing my point.

Yes, who cares.

But now BEBO are crossing the line. Free speech and competition are facts of life that should be preserved. I don't care for Nimble myself. Just my freedom.

And you? Hope so.

I know what you mean, but its their website and not ours so they can really do what they want :cool:

Nimble is overly complicated.