The Bebo Platform team announced over the weekend that it has launched Facebook-compatible support for pre-load SNQL. This basically means that developers can make their apps run a lot faster on the Bebo Platform by specifying beforehand what platform data the application requires instead of making lots of queries as you go.

While we haven’t heard any major news out of the Bebo Platform lately, Bebo has told me they are working on new engagement metrics for applications. These metrics (like time spent, etc.) will reward developers that create the most engaging applications.