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Monthly Archives: October 2007
opensocial: standards-based apps for all social networks
Posted by on October 30, 2007
It’s all over the wire: the NY Times and Techcrunch first, quickly followed by Om and many others have posted about the announcement that we at Ning were going to make with Google and other providers on Thursday of a new set of APIs that will be supported across all services to enable social applications. [...]
the ning platform: yes, it is THAT cool :)
Posted by on October 4, 2007
Albert Wegner from Union Square Ventures wants a new Platform. He describes some of the characteristics of this new platform as follows: A platform that is created from the ground up to enable modern web sites and applications. What would such a platform look like? It would be hosted and (nearly) infinitely scaleable. It would [...]
one small REST call for man, one giant API for mankind
Posted by on October 4, 2007
Here’s a question I’ve heard a couple of times recently: how committed is Ning to the platform idea? It’s question that emerges from our need to focus right now, as a company, on building out the social network application on Ning and empowering Network Creators from the top-down, through simple but powerful tools, to customize [...]
2 years of ning!
Posted by on October 3, 2007
2 years ago tonight we launched Ning. Back then, every time we told someone “It’s an online Platform for Social Applications” we’d generally get back puzzled stares. Today, it has become more mainstream (although not completely), and a little over a week ago we passed 100,000 networks on the platform. But there’s still more to [...]
