Social Network Designer Ning officially opened
Thanks to his background, Marc Andressen is consistently in the center of attention of experts, journalists and venture financiers in Silicon Valley. Still, this is the same Andressen, the co-founder of the legendary company Netscape, which entered the stock exchange in 1995 and anticipated the dotcom boom with its phenomenal success.
The new startup Adresssen is no less revolutionary than its Mosaic Netscape 0.9 browser, but it is much more technological. Ning.com is a kind of incubator for social services, where every user, be it a beginner or a super giant, can build their own social network, including using ready-made templates. We talked about this interesting technology in July last year, when it was in beta testing. Even then, several thousand social services were located on the Ning platform.
The beta testing period lasted more than a year, and only on February 26, 2007 the official opening of the service took place, and in the updated form, with extended functionality. The most important thing: if earlier, to create an original social service, at least small programming skills were required, now everything has changed. Social services are created by drag-n-drop, dragging basic modules, including text fields, RSS-feeds, video aggregator, photo albums, blogs, forums - anything. Each module is customized to the user's taste in a few clicks. For additional extensions, custom HTML and CSS loading is supported. The service is absolutely free in basic functionality (up to 5 GB of disk space; up to 100 GB of traffic), and take money only for the ability to add AdSense modules ($ 20 per month) and redirect the service from another domain name ($ 5 per month). Each social network on Ning has its own software interfaces for exporting / importing data.
Regarding the official opening of Ning in the next issue of Scoble's Show, Mark Andressen, who is the technical director of Ning, and CEO Gina Bianchini, spoke. A half-hour interview can be downloaded here (video MP4; 120 MB). This file should be downloaded at least in order to see the speed with which Mark Andressen speaks (this is something amazing).
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During the beta testing, more than 30,000 social applications have been created on the basis of Ning. Traffic exceeded 20 million page impressions per month, and the number of unique visitors reached 5 million per month.
Mark and Gina are convinced that nowadays everyone can create a social network on the Internet, including every family, every church, every commercial company, every class in school, every circle of friends, every musical group and sports team - absolutely every group of people . In the near future, social networks will come to the place of hamsters and blogs and will become the basic elements of the web. The social network will be a universal replacement for forums and photo albums, for workshops and simple online chats, for MySpace and YouTube combined. The Ning platform allows you to create applications with this functionality, and also provides for the connection of new modules: all that you may need in the future.
A startup Ning, founded two years ago, is funded personally by Mark Andressen, who has already invested more than $ 9 million in the company. In two years, the company’s staff has grown to 27 people.
The new startup Adresssen is no less revolutionary than its Mosaic Netscape 0.9 browser, but it is much more technological. Ning.com is a kind of incubator for social services, where every user, be it a beginner or a super giant, can build their own social network, including using ready-made templates. We talked about this interesting technology in July last year, when it was in beta testing. Even then, several thousand social services were located on the Ning platform.
The beta testing period lasted more than a year, and only on February 26, 2007 the official opening of the service took place, and in the updated form, with extended functionality. The most important thing: if earlier, to create an original social service, at least small programming skills were required, now everything has changed. Social services are created by drag-n-drop, dragging basic modules, including text fields, RSS-feeds, video aggregator, photo albums, blogs, forums - anything. Each module is customized to the user's taste in a few clicks. For additional extensions, custom HTML and CSS loading is supported. The service is absolutely free in basic functionality (up to 5 GB of disk space; up to 100 GB of traffic), and take money only for the ability to add AdSense modules ($ 20 per month) and redirect the service from another domain name ($ 5 per month). Each social network on Ning has its own software interfaces for exporting / importing data.
Regarding the official opening of Ning in the next issue of Scoble's Show, Mark Andressen, who is the technical director of Ning, and CEO Gina Bianchini, spoke. A half-hour interview can be downloaded here (video MP4; 120 MB). This file should be downloaded at least in order to see the speed with which Mark Andressen speaks (this is something amazing).
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During the beta testing, more than 30,000 social applications have been created on the basis of Ning. Traffic exceeded 20 million page impressions per month, and the number of unique visitors reached 5 million per month.
Mark and Gina are convinced that nowadays everyone can create a social network on the Internet, including every family, every church, every commercial company, every class in school, every circle of friends, every musical group and sports team - absolutely every group of people . In the near future, social networks will come to the place of hamsters and blogs and will become the basic elements of the web. The social network will be a universal replacement for forums and photo albums, for workshops and simple online chats, for MySpace and YouTube combined. The Ning platform allows you to create applications with this functionality, and also provides for the connection of new modules: all that you may need in the future.
A startup Ning, founded two years ago, is funded personally by Mark Andressen, who has already invested more than $ 9 million in the company. In two years, the company’s staff has grown to 27 people.
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