Doug April 16th, 2009
The Ning Platform is pretty darn popular. Earlier today, a post on the corporate blog announced, “[W]e just passed one million social networks on the Ning Platform. . . .
We’re humbled to see the incredible variety of your one million social networks.” And the hubbub around the creation of the millionth social network is likely to create a sort of snowball effect, of course, so it’ll be interesting to see how the Ning Platform continues to grow in the future.
Doug March 21st, 2008
According to information from both comScore and Ning itself, the social network service is doing extremely well. Growth in the number of total Ning networks has improved upon a 45-degree angle, and Michael Arrington writes, “Ning, in short, looks like it might be a real business.” As some sort of bust or recession seems to be taking place, that’s fairly high praise.
Tim February 25th, 2007
Update: Ning has relaunched their site with version 2 and a host of features to allow even novice users to go beyond cloning a create an entire social network at the click of buttons. For a full writeup check out TechCrunch’s report and watch this video for the new features.
Have you ever had this idea for a great web application? Something with tagging and google maps and possible a digg like voting system built in, or maybe something complete different. Problem is, you’re not a programmer and don’t have the money to hire one just to find out if your idea would be successful or not.
Well I’m not a programmer either and lucky for you and me, Ning has made a product that makes building a web application something that takes a matter of minutes (No, I’m not kidding). The idea intrigued me so we’ve decided to give them a run for their money and make a Web Application Review Site using their service. Here goes nothing!
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