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- Photos: Fete de Ning in San Francisco
- To celebrate the launch of OpenSocial apps on their site, Ning hosted an event at Terra in San Francisco. I hope you enjoy the photos! by Andrew Mager
- Tags: San Francisco, Ning, Photograph, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Ning, king of custom social networks?
- Ning, king of custom social networks?Ning is garbagegreat idea for networking but the content on these sites are junk.... content needs to be better...Here are two companies who are more interested in making social content instead of social networking oneapollomatrix.com is more of an SEO company that buildscustom social content...
- Tags: social networking, Ning, network
- Discussion threads 2009-03-21
- Ning CEO on how start-ups can hit the ground running
- Ning CEO on how start-ups can hit the ground runningNing PlatformAt the present time I am the user of the NING platform through Zoomers a Canadian Social Network.I am looking towards starting a Similar site in another province.James Bird
- Tags: Ning
- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
- 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
- Classroom 2.0 and the joys of Ning
- Classroom 2.0 and the joys of NingOk, but what about locally hosted options?The concern I would have here is irresponsible content posting. Along the lines of externally hosted IM. Lots of potential for abuse. Is there anything like this that can be hosted internally?
- Tags: Instant messaging, Classroom 2.0, Ning
- Discussion threads 2008-11-02
- Classroom 2.0 and the joys of Ning
- I've joined a couple of social networks in the last 24 hours, both powered by Ning. The first was the OSUM network I blogged about on Thursday. The second was Classroom 2.0, a network dedicated to, not surprisingly, using Web 2.0 tools like Ning in education. ...
- Tags: Network, Ning, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Andreessen joins eBay board
- eBay said that Marc Andreessen will join the online auctioneer's board of directors. The move, which is effectively immediately, brings some additional brainpower to eBay, which is trying to fend off rivals such as Amazon and Google. For instance, Amazon's fixed price model has been attracting merchants...
- Tags: Marc Andreessen, Board, Ning, eBay Inc., Corporate Governance, Social Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- 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
- Get those ToS sorted
- The spat between WidgetLaboratory and Ning highlights one of the running sores in the current rush to all things 2.0: no-one and I mean no-one has given enough thought to how Terms of Service ToS are going to operate in the real world once cloud based services start to scale...
- Tags: Terms Of Service, Ning, E-mail, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Marc Andreessen connects to Facebook team
- Facebook confirmed today that Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Ning and perhaps best known for his co-founding Netscape, has joined the social network's board of directors. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Facebook, Team, Marc Andreessen, Ning, Corporate Governance, Team Management, Social Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Marc Andreessen, past and present
- Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, sits down with John Battelle, founder and chairman of Federated Media publishing at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Andreessen talks about his current social-networking site Ning, and the impact of Facebook apps and Google's OpenSocial.
- Tags: Marc Andreessen, Ning, OpenSocial, Facebook, Browser, Google, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Expo
- Videos 2008-04-24
- Giving Ning another shot
- Giving Ning another shotInteresting ideaI can see where this would be helpful in having an online resource as a supplement to a course. Does your district have any policies on hand about staff created websites, blogs, etc. Are there any district concerns about security and liability in written communication between...
- Tags: Web technology, Ning, Giving
- Discussion threads 2008-01-30
- Giving Ning another shot
- I used Ning last year as an activity for my web design class. For those of you unfamiliar with Ning, it's a web site/application that allows users to create their own social networks. Once students realized that they were creating something akin to MySpace (and not just their...
- Tags: Web, MySpace, Web Design, Ning, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- 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
- More Enterprise 2.0 bad news: Ning is down
- More Enterprise 2.0 bad news: Ning is downE 2.0Web 2.0 is not a formula to be successful. It is not a cash cow for everyone. It is a about a new business model where everyone is dare to try. Maybe,instead of writing, you like to code some old fashing technology...
- Tags: Backups, Strategy, nothing, Ning, backup, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-08-12
- More Enterprise 2.0 bad news: Ning is down
- Just yesterday, I described poor reliability as a key weakness in the Enterprise 2.0 model. Today, as if on cue, Ning, a social networking startup founded by Marc Andreessen, is offline:Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer reliability, consistency, and high availability in my mission critical software. It's bad enough when...
- Tags: Social Networking, Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-11
- Bay Partners mines for gold in Facebook, Ning takes $44 M
- Bay Partners mines for gold in Facebook, Ning takes $44 MNing valuationWhile the valuation for Ning is quite high, I think it shows that there is room for more than just MySpace and Facebook in this arena. Social networking is not the same as search or maps where you really...
- Tags: Business structures, Investment, partnership, social networking, Ning, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- Marc Canter to Ning: help social networks open-up
- TechCrunch reports that Ning, the web service that lets anybody start their own social network see my previous coverage, has a received a series C round of investment ($44 million) which values the company at $214 million. The additional funds will be used to build out Ning's infastructure, and help...
- Tags: Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Ning! MySpace is dead. Long live social networking.
- Ning! MySpace is dead. Long live social networking.My First Cousins Have A NING networkI come from a family of 20 or so first cousins that are spread all over the country. With the recent passing of one of my aunts, one of the cousins started the network to get...
- Tags: social networking, MySpace, Ning, network
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- Ning! MySpace is dead. Long live social networking.
- I stumbled across Ning a few weeks ago as I was looking for some end-of-year activities for restless students. Ning is a free service that actually lets you create your own social network. While this turned out to be an interesting exercise for my students, particularly once they...
- Tags: Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
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