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- Ning CEO on how start-ups can hit the ground running
- At the TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable in Mountain View, Calif., Gina Bianchini, CEO of Ning, says that cloud computing can give start-ups an edge by allowing them to focus on the application their business is producing, and then gives them far wider distribution--through sites like Facebook--than was available just a...
- Tags: TechCrunch, Start-up, Ning, social networking, startups, windows, azure, Gina Bianchini, Amitabh Srivastava, Microsoft, cloud computing, economy
- Videos 2009-03-02
- Social networks: what goes out, what goes in
- "Social Networking 3.0" was on the agenda this afternoon at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. This one was a "must watch" for me, as will be Dan Farber's later today on "The Democratization of Media." You can follow along with the conference's live Webcast here.Moderator Charlene Li, senior analyst...
- Tags: Video, User generated content, Social networking, Podcasting, Live Web, Identity, Copyright, Conferences, Collaboration, Attention
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
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- Churchill Club: The Free Economy: How Companies Make Money From Giving Things Away
- The concept of loss leader products has been around since the 20th century, but today, free has become a business strategy that could be essential to a company's survival. In the latest episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, a top-flight panel moderated by Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Wired Magazine, and...
- Tags: Leader, CEO, Podcasts, Leadership, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Get those ToS sorted
- Get those ToS sortedNing can delete everything at their whim?Really? Their business model is "no responsibility". They expect anyone with data to use them?Or do they send out an email amending the terms?Kind of like my credit card company constantly sending term amendments every time they want to increase...
- Tags: E-mail, Strategy, Ning, WidgetLaboratory
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Managing risk in your career
- At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, panelists discuss how to balance risk and responsibilities and how to see an uncertainty as an opportunity. Speakers include Gina Bianchini of Ning, Charlene Li of Forrester Research, Carol Mills of Adobe, and moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture...
- Tags: gender and diversity, professional development, human resources, career, churchill, tech, women, risk
- Videos 2008-08-06
- Podcast: Churchill Club women in technology
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of executives talk about the critical factors in their success and how they overcame the obstacles of the fast-paced tech industry that is often considered to be dominated by men. Speakers include: Gina...
- Tags: Women, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Ning, king of custom social networks?
- On Working Webware, ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber and Webware.com's editor Rafe Needleman sit down with Ning CEO Gina Bianchini to find out about the company's social-network platform strategy and how the CEO plans to compete against other social-network enablers. Farber and Needleman then analyze the company's viability in...
- Tags: Network, Ning, Rafe Needleman, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, CEO, Personal Technology
- Videos 2008-01-28
- Social Network Dead-Ends
- For all the hype of the Summer of Facebook, the direction social networking is headed will lead only to dead ends. A discussion of social networking at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit the other day demonstrates that, for the most part, social network providers only want to keep their members on...
- Tags: Social Networking, Network, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- The future of social networks
- What will social networking be like in ten years? Who knows, but we won't be having panels about it. At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07, there was such a panel, titled "Social Networking 3.0," led by Charlene Li, a senior analyst Forrester Research.The panelists below included representatives from some of...
- Tags: Social networking, MySpace, General, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Bay Partners mines for gold in Facebook, Ning takes $44 M
- At least one venture capitalist is seeing gold in the Facebook Platform. Bay Partners created a new funding program, AppFactory, for Facebook Platform developers. This is venture capital with a small "v"--focusing on investments of $25,000 to $250,000 with an expedited approval process.The goldmine for developers and Bay Partners to...
- Tags: Facebook, Social networking
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- The Facebook Platform according to Marc Andreessen
- Marc Andreessen discovered blogging recently and is becoming a blogging sensation faster than he became the poster child for Web 1.0 with Netscape. In his most recent blog, Andreessen analyzes the Facebook phenomenon, looking at the pros and cons of the new platform, with some comparison to the social networking...
- Tags: Web Technology, Social networking
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Facebook's Zuckerberg uncorks the social graph
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage in jeans, Adidas shower shoes and Northface polar fleece and told that crowd that they were at the beginning of a new movement. He then described the recent growth of the company and to the company's secret sauce--the social graph (see my earlier...
- Tags: General, Social networking
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Web 2.0 one minute Social Network: Does size matter?
- “If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?” the old saying asks.I ASK: If you create your own social network and no one joins, do you exist?Web 2.0 turnkey empowerment platforms lure with visions of instant social nirvana, for free and...
- Tags: Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Facebook, Social Web, Amateur Content, MySpace, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Ask and you may receive (a mashup)
- Wow. Yesterday, Berkman Center fellow David Isenberg publicized his request for a mashup that allows the public to create its own coverage map for the cellular services. He posted it on the Mashups We Want page over at the Mashup Camp web site. Let's just say that the...
- Tags: Ning, mashup
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
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