A Do-It-Yourself Social Network
Posted by
Thomas Claburn
March 03, 2007
Ning is making it easier for users to create their own, more elaborate social networking sites. Version 2 of the 3-year-old social networking development platform lets users create Web sites that have videos, photos, blogs, and discussion forums, among other features--all the functions you'd expect on MySpace or Facebook, but with more control.
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As it happens, Ning's CTO, Marc Andreessen, was the CTO of AOL and CTO and co-founder of Netscape.
Ning is free. As a user, you have complete control over the modules on your site, your site's appearance, and who has access. Ning runs ads on the sites, or users can pay $19.95 a month and run Google AdSense or another third-party advertising server, Bianchini says.
Ning is used by individuals as well as big companies like CBS, which is using it to power a social network for the show CSI. "CBS actually came in and used the same service that Minnesota schoolteachers and subversive artists in North Carolina are using," Bianchini says.
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