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October 4, 2005 8:22 AM

Ning Is Live

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....

  • Posted by John Battelle on October 4, 2005 8:22 AM

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» Grokking Ning from KrazyDad
A number of folks have posted about Mark Andreesen's new project, Ning, which went live today. Most are just quoting from the Ning FAQ and have not yet posted opinions or explanations of what Ning actually *is*. This is because Ning is a little hard t... [Read More]

» Andreessen launches developer 'playground' from InfoWorld TechWatch
Stealth start-up Ning unveiled itself on Monday, offering a free online service for creating and using social applications. Co-founders Gina Bianchini and former Netscape exec Marc Andreessen refer to Ning as a Playground, by which they mean a "sphere ... [Read More]

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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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