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Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Kristi Marie Gott — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:04:02 -0000

I created a Ning site for the Bay Area Seniors Computer Learning Club, Coos Bay, Oregon, for sharing photos and videos at http://bayareaseniorscomput.... The software was easy to use and we're enjoyng the site.

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

chinkomon — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:28:18 -0000

Everyone seems in "love" with Ning. Not true. What's the deal with spamming all members of all networks? Read more about it:

http://www.chartingstocks.n...

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Lindsey C — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:26:14 -0000

Illini Snuggie Lovers: The leading social networking site for local Champaign-Urbana fans of the greatest invention to date: The Snuggie.

http://uofisnuggie.ning.com

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Laura Cader — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:04:57 -0000

Your #1 Beauty Reviews, Tutorials and Tips Global Community - for Men and Women! http://www.beautymonials.ni...

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Laura Cader — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:04:23 -0000

Hey I found this really cool site Im a part of : Your #1 Beauty Reviews, Tutorials and Tips Global Community - for Men and Women!

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Silvia — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:14:50 -0000

I belong to www.ithinkiloveyou.ning.com , network created by a friend of mibe working here in Beijing :)

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

BabbleTV — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:05:43 -0000

We have one of the most viewed ning sites, its a social networking site where we are trying to attract the best talent across the internet and showcase their original media. Everyone is welcome at BabbleTV, and its fast becoming a beacon for the cream of the interweb. Sign up Today and tell your friends. http://babbletv.ning.com/

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Carl — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:52:55 -0000

BabbletTV is on the ning network and we are very pleased with the service. Check it out....http://babbletv.ning.com/

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Tom Foale — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:22:04 -0000

Swag - Since there are 10 to the 300 (10 followed by 300 zeroes) non-trivial ways of combining just 1024 people into groups, and this grows exponentially with the number of users, then it follows that there can be many times more social networks than users even if the vast majority of these groupings have no reason to exist. Just think about your own personal social, business and family networks, not to mention the short-lived networks you form every time you trade on Ebay. However, I doubt if people would pay to join many of these networks for their proposed purpose, which is a flaw social networks have yet to overcome.

For those that can't find the features they want on Ning, look at SocialGo.com. It includes the ability to support paid subscription, requires no web knowledge to get up and running and is packed with collaboration features. Great for private clubs, and quite possibly disruptive to basic, non-interactive websites too.

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Denver car donations — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:32:06 -0000

Yep, I agree...

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

swag — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:57:48 -0000

Ning is getting to be like mutual funds. As there are now more mutual funds than there are stocks, Ning is going to have more social networks than there are users.

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

J Alabi — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:54:49 -0000

The Blindian Network (BNk) dedicated to relationships between black people and Indian (south Asian) people.

http://www.blindiannetwork.com

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Steve Ressler — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:53:38 -0000

I run GovLoop.com, a social network of over 9,500 government innovators, which is built on Ning and have been pretty happy with the service they provide.

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Social Networks for marketing — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:27:59 -0000

Social networks are very usefull for Marketing. And Also classifieds provide you good back links. like http://www.tabistore.com

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

SleepyTexan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:10:12 -0000

I belong to many Ning Networks! One of my brand new Nings I am working on is Femme Fabulous!

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

steve — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:33:57 -0000

TC says “Because many of its users (particularly network creators) tend to be quite passionate about the sites they’ve built, Ning hasn’t been without its share of controversy, ”

If the NCs would not have been passionate about their sites, NING would not have become such a success, and the reason why these guys are passionate because NING sold them a Dream That they own their site..

and

NING recently crushed that dream by telling them all those members on different social networks belong to NING and NING has simply used its Network creators… Breach of trust at NING… ! Why didn't any major site report it despite numerous complaints..?

Check this link ... http://www.chartingstocks.n...

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Loretta — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:42:33 -0000

I am with the network http://workathome.ning.com

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Jim Turner — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:48:02 -0000

I have a network on Ning, http://jimturnersmm.ning.com , my only wish is that they would use Facebook Connect, making it easier for my Facebook friends to join my network. So far, they want no part of partnering with Facebook.

Jim Turner

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Charles Pahud — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:54:09 -0000

tradetwit.ning.com but i'm desperately waiting for a microblogging system. All Ning sites are iphone enabled, that's cool, support is excellent and very quick but i would like to see more features. The fact that Ning still has no microblogging is quite amazing. New release April 20...

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

hellokitty — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:40:00 -0000

Gosh wetpaint is ugly! They should spend more time on design and user testing!

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Charles Pahud — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:34:01 -0000

tradetwit.ning.com, still in beta as i'm desperately waiting for a microblogging solution. For the rest, they give excellent feedback although I would appreciate Ning to be somewhat more geek-oriented. 1good point however: all ning sites are iphone-enabled :)

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Ian Hendry — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:35:06 -0000

I took a good look at Ning before we build our site (from scratch in the end) and it's pretty easy to set a social site up. What stopped me moving forward with Ning was that there is little you can do to distinguish yourself in terms of feature functions. We wanted it to do some stuff it couldn't and I felt that would have made us no better than any other business focused social networking site on there.

Two other things:
1) They have 1 million sites but how many users spend any time on them? I'd be interested to hear how large the average community is.

2) Do they yet have support for OpenID or Facebook Connect? Without these at the very least it will make it tough for many of those sites to succeed, as apathy around registration is a big obstacle to people using new sites.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

SamosaGuy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:49:55 -0000

We run http://yosamosa.com on ning. We are sticking with them over group.us because Ning has over $100 million in funds and seem to have a revenue model. We are glad with what we are getting for $30/month.

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Facebook User — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:08:43 -0000

Using www.CHAT.com.pr, a Puerto Rico social network built on Ning, with close to 40,000 members.

Growing a community with the Ning platform is easy and keeps you competitive with their constant feature improvements.

Re: Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Andrew D — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:59:50 -0000

Blackberry Underground...A truly Social Network for Blackberry Users and Abusers...totally outfitted for the Blackberry Fan