Ning 2.0 launches: build your own social network
Hmmm, I have a video of Ning going up (Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, and investor in Ning, and Gina Bianchini, CEO of Ning, came and visited me last week) but you can read all about the new Ning over on TechMeme. It’s rising up the charts.
I wonder what Marc Canter has to say about this? (His company is going after the same space).
Oh, and ClipMarks will have something fun too (that video will be up at about 5 a.m. today, Pacific Time).
UPDATE: Ning is pretty neat. It basically will let you build something similar to Channel 9. Your own community site with pieces you pick. TechCrunch has the details.
Here’s the video interview with Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini (CEO of Ning). We talk about a lot more than just Ning, cause Marc was the founder of Netscape and has learned quite a bit since going through that experience.
Here’s the demo (Gina rocks!!!):
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February 27th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Robert — thanks for the late night post — and btw we love what Marc Canter is doing as well!
February 27th, 2007 at 1:24 am
Thanks Marc, it was fun talking with you! Hope the launch goes well.
February 27th, 2007 at 2:13 am
Yeah Gina rocks…phone number? Wow (can I say that without feeling the need to install Vista?)!!!
February 27th, 2007 at 4:25 am
Check out this list of all the social networks that you can rebrand. Marc Canter’s site (who I recently video interviewed) as well as Ning are present.
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/02/12/list-of-white-label-social-networking-platforms/
February 27th, 2007 at 5:18 am
Why Ning will work and not work at the same time.
As Ning launches today there are some reports out there and it is worth looking at them - including the comments.
Techcrunch: Ning In Full
GigaOm:Ning: let ‘000 Social Nets Bloom
Scoble has Videos: Ning 2.0 launches: build your own soc…
February 27th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Well, I’ve been trying to talk with Marc about PeopleAggregator and widgets for ages. No response. But I can put Snipperoo widgets in Ning within a few seconds of making a site.
Scoreline so far: Ning 1: PeopleAggregator 0
February 27th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Hi Ivan — I’m not sure how you’ve been trying to reach me but I haven’t seen any messages from you! You can reach me at pmarca at my company name dot com.
February 27th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Marc,
Thanks - I do want to contact you and will. But the Marc I’m complaining about above is Marc Canter. Cheers, Ivan
February 27th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Ivan — damn, too many Marc’s :-).
February 27th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Terrific interview!
February 27th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
[...] own community of interest around content that matters, your own MySpace. Robert Scoble posts on Ning, and Jeremiah Owyang covers Others. Written by Bill Olen Share [...]
February 27th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
[...] a service that allows you to build your own social network, made waves today on Scoble and TechCrunch. Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, and Gina Bianchini, the [...]
February 28th, 2007 at 1:20 am
I just got hosed by Ning and I’m pissed off, so read this before you get all excited when signing up: http://www.ericrice.com/blog/?p=390
Grr.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Update, I got a comment from Gina @ Ning here http://www.ericrice.com/blog/?p=390#comment-24411
Hopefully, I can get my account deleted so I can start over.
I appreciate the feedback.
February 28th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Would be great if you could play these videos at 1.5x speed within this control. I used to do that with Channel 9.
February 28th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
WOW!
And the product looks impressive too. I chose a userid that I wouldn’t want to use for the site name (as per #13).
February 28th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
By the way, these two videos demonstrate three things:
1: I can play this just fine on my Linux box (thank you!) some of the earlier videos I couldn’t.
2: Seems like a lot of video producers are having problems equalizing their sound. Some things way to loud, some things way too soft. Unless it’s just me the audio level on these two are way different. Can’t this be fixed after the content is recorded (post-production or whatever it is called)? I have pretty good speakers here, so I’m not worried about overloading them, more about blasting my aging eardrums. Some sort of “industry standard” sound level would be nice. Is there such a thing?
3: Maybe related to 1 and/or 2: I don’t see any volume or stream controls (if this is a Linux or Firefox limitation I can live with it). I noticed I can sort of click ahead in the stream, but the indicator seems to be indicating how much of the stream has downloaded, not where I am in it. So my clicks are just guesses about how much ahead or back I want to go in the video.
March 3rd, 2007 at 11:07 am
[...] Andressen spent some money on a launch and did the rounds - touting the relaunch of Ning. When I tried it - it was clear it’s not done yet - but [...]
March 6th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
[...] media” komponenter, så man kan få sit Social Media site i luften i løbet af 5 min. Se bla. video hos Robert Scoble som interviewede Ning CEO Gina Bianchini og Marc Andreessen (of Netscape fame) [...]
March 12th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
[...] Sure enough, Robert Scoble, who is in my NextNow member thinktank, reports Ning has recently ‘relaunched. Now, Ning has easier functionality and cool tools for fools like me that can’t grok the geek speak [...]
March 29th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
[...] for local community sites or church groups or support groups or …, the list is endless. See Scoble for video demos of the [...]
April 4th, 2007 at 2:48 am
[...] with no special expertise. If you want to find out more you can read what Giga Om, TechCrunch and Scoble have to [...]
April 20th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Watching this interview literally brought tears to my eyes thinking about the possibilities Ning can enable.