The Register®  Original URL:  Bebo users to summon superhuman
alien pop-fancier invasion  Russian boffin in close encounters
of the Web 2.0 kind  By Lewis Page  Posted in Science, 29th July
2008 11:36 GMT  A controversial Russian scientist with a history
of beaming powerful radio signals to possibly hostile alien
civilisations has now teamed up with Bebo. The idea is that a
collective of Bebo users - and people selected by them, such as
their chosen musical artistes - will compile multimedia packages
to be transmitted into deep space on behalf of the human race.
The project, referred to as AMFE (A Message From Earth) by Bebo,
is up and running under the control of a group of freshly
recruited Bebo users, who "know what makes their friends tick,
what sparks imagination and makes people laugh, and what turns
young web users off".  Once the AMFE team - who know "what works
and what doesn't when it comes to web content" (even in the case
of an alien audience, apparently) have got their stuff together,
it will be