Ning is an online platform for people to create their own social networks Social Graph-iti, The Economist, Oct 18, 2007, launched in October 2005.Ok, I am excited by Gina Bianchini, Ning BLog, October 3, 2005 Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini. Ning is Andreessen's third company (after Netscape and Opsware).
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Ning is an online platform for people to create their own social networks Social Graph-iti, The Economist, Oct 18, 2007, launched in October 2005.Ok, I am excited by Gina Bianchini, Ning BLog, October 3, 2005 Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini. Ning is Andreessen's third company (after Netscape and Opsware).
The word "Ning" is Chinese for "peace" ( ), as explained by Gina Bianchini on the company blog, and it is also a surname in Chinese .The Story Behind the Ning Name, by Gina Bianchini, Ning Blog, April 11, 2007
History
Ning started development in October 2004 and launched its platform publicly in October 2005.Andreessen adds some Ning to the Web, by Martin LaMonica, CNET news, Oct 6, 2005 Ning was initially funded internally by Bianchini, Andreessen and angel investors. In July 2007, Ning raised US$44 million in venture capital, led by Legg Mason.Ning news: new investment round, by Marc Andreesen, blog.pmarca.com, Jul 9, 2007 In March 2008, the company also announced it had raised an additional US$60 million in capital, led by an undisclosed set of investors.Ning news: Series D investment round, by Marc Andreessen, April 18, 2008
Ning is located in downtown Palo Alto, California.
Features
Ning competes with large social sites like MySpace and Facebook by appealing to people who want to create their own social networks around specific interests with their own visual design, choice of features and member data. The unique feature of Ning is that anyone can create their own social network for a particular topic or need, catering to specific membership bases. At its launch, Ning offered several simple base websites developed internally and by members of a closed beta. In late September 2006, Ning narrowed its focus to offering a group website, a photos website, and a videos website for people to copy and use for any purpose. These three templates were later superseded by a single customizable application aimed at enabling anyone to easily create their own social network. However, Ning does allow developers to have some source level control of their social networks, enabling them to change features and underlying logic.
Feature modification was temporarily disabled on October 21, 2008.The Ning Platform: A Few Updates, Gina Bianchini, October 21, 2008 and the company will replace full source control with the ability to bring in new features or change the logic of existing features via OpenSocial and a set of new APIs to be relaunched in early 2009.
