Ning | Social Interest Networking
Ning has just announced that they’ve reached 37 million registered users and 1.6 million social networks. Wow. Incase you don’t know, Ning is a web service that enables anyone to create their own custom social network. As you’d expect these networks can house videos, photos, chat,events, forums, messaging, blogs, etc. They have their own profile pages, friending program, status, and third party apps (all the stuff you’d expect to find on Facebook style networks) but are mostly smaller and centered around interests over just socializing/mating. Ning (with ad’s) is free, but, of course, offers premium services that allow users to employ their own domain name, utilize more storage space, remove ads and remove promotional shit etc.
I think it (and services like it) are the future of ’social networking’. I don’t think they’ll replace the current activity – just add to it. Services that only enable you to network with people whose commonality is friendship are kinda limiting. Centering the activity around a common interest adds another, more relevant, dimension to that interaction. I guess the proof is in the pudding – I’ve never seen an ad for Ning yet it has 37 million users.
So – you heard it here first. ‘Social Interest Networking’ is the new black.
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I remember you mentioning this last year. Its grown up a bit since then.
Very much. That woman doesn’t help!
Hi, also check out Webjam. Really cool and allot more robust than Ning when I was choosing a social network platform. Its still really new and doesn’t have the same following but has great potential.