Bebo will its open doors to applications

We've heard in recent days and Mashable has announced that social networking site Bebo will follow in the path of bitter rival Facebook and open its platform to third party applications.

Developers are being invited to an event in San Francisco, California, this afternoon (GMT) where they will be told who are the first partners and how the system will work.

You can almost feel that a travel-related app will be on that inital list, such is the synergy between social networks and travel experiences.

The debate Mashable is focusing on surrounds whether Bebo will use the new Google OpenSocial system or develop one of its own.

We will update if anything concrete about travel comes out of the event in SF.

Kevin May, editor, Travolution

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