Ning Is Live
October 4, 2005
This is the super secret project from Marc Andreessen and friends. It's called Ning. It's a social app/mashup/remixing "playground." Wish I had more time to grok, but Web 2 starts tomorrow....
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There's something a little coy about all of this. So-called playgrounds don't come with dozens of FAQs.
I posted a follow-up to this post called "Grokking Ning":
http://www.krazydad.com/
Here's an excerpt:
If Ning is successful, it will end up being a hub for a huge collection of interesting (and not-so-interesting) social sites. The more people that create apps on Ning, the more apps there will be to clone. Successful Ning sites will foster imitation. Ning could very well end up being the “Hypercard of Social Sites�. This has both good and bad connotations. It’s good in that Ning would provide a common, easy-to-learn system for creating new social sites. It’s bad in that if you remember Hypercard, you may also remember that “All Hypercard Apps look like they are made in Hypercard� - Ning may suffer from the same problem in that most early Ning apps will have a “cookie-cutter� approach.
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