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Ning Acquired: Here's How it Evolved Over 6 Years
Today Ning chairman and co-founder Marc Andreessen announced the "merger" of his company with a larger company, Glam Media. In other words, Glam acquired Ning. It's interesting to look back at the history of Ning, a DIY social networking service that launched in 2005 when the Web 2.0 tech boom ...
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Ning Partners With Pearson To Sponsor Free Network Access For Educators
When Ning shuttered its free service for creating social networks back in April, educators and schools who were using the platform expresses their concern at the company’s decision to include educations networks created by schools and colleges in this group. When Ning eventually rolled out its premium pricing structure in ...
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Ning Announces New Pricing Model, Free Nings for Teachers
Social networking site Ning announced its new pricing scheme today, following its announcement last month that it will abandon the freemium model and eliminate free subscriptions. In July, the company will roll out three tiers of service - Ning Mini, Ning Plus and Ning Pro - and subscriptions will range ...
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Is Ning About To Launch Its Own AdSense? (Update: Nope)
In the last two months, Ning has been making some drastic changes. In March, longtime CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal. Then, less than three weeks ago, Ning’s bubble burst — the company laid off 40% of its staff and killed off its free service. Tomorrow, Ning ...
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No Free Lunch for Ning Users; Still Plenty of Bargains Elsewhere
The social networking platform Ning announced today that it was making some substantial changes to the company. The news, coming just one month after Jason Rosenthal replaced Gina Bianchini as CEO, was sour for both employees and for many users of the service. Ning will cut 70 jobs ...
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Ning SVP Engineering Lands At Facebook In Mystery Role
Former Ning exec Jay Parikh left that company in October 2009 after two years as SVP Engineering and Operations. By November he was working at Facebook. Facebook confirms his employment, saying “We’re pleased that Jay Parikh has joined Facebook. Jay joined us in November, and will play an integral ...
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Ning Reaches 37 Million Users, Launches Developer Appathon
Tonight at a Ning’s developer event in Palo Alto, newly appointed COO Jason Rosenthal announced that Ning has reached 37 million registered users, as well as 1.6 million Ning networks created. The company also says that it grows another million users every couple weeks. Out of the 1.6 million Ning ...
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Ning Launches Virtual Gifts, Allows Network Creators To Design Their Own
Today Ning, the platform that lets users build their own social networks, is launching a new feature called Ning Virtual Gifts, bringing a built-in virtual goods store to the site’s 1.6 million networks. Virtual gifts have become increasingly popular over the last few years, largely thanks to their popularity ...
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Ning Launches Ning Apps With 90 New OpenSocial Apps
Ning, the popular online service that allows users to create their own custom social networking sites, launched Ning Apps today. Ning Apps gives users the ability to embed over 90 new apps and widgets on their social networks. Given that Ning Apps is based on the OpenSocial standard, however, developers ...
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Ning Now Hosts 1 Million Social Networks
Just last October, we reported that Ning hosted half a million social networks, and today, the social network provider announced that it has hit 1 million networks. Ning, which hosts custom social networks, was co-founded by Marc Andreesen and launched in 2005. Of course, as is so often the case, ...
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Ning: 1 Million Social Networks Strong
Ning is going to be reaching a big milestone this week, when it sees its one millionth social network created on its self-serve platform. Ning, which had its initial beta launch in 2005 and ‘full’ launch in 2007, makes it easy for people to create niche social networks focused ...
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Ning Launches Rich, Persistent Chat Feature
Tonight Ning will introduce new chat functionality, giving Ning network administrators the oft-requested ability to integrate a rich chat environment similar to the one launched on Facebook last April. Ning’s new chat system is Flash-based, presenting users with a persistent chat bar along the bottom of their screens as ...
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Ning Adds OpenSocial Support
Social networking platform Ning announced support for the OpenSocial standard today. Thanks to this, developers can now easily create applications for the Ning platform. At this time, Ning already features 30 applications that users can embed into their profile pages, including support for file sharing with Box.net and poll ...
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Ning CEO Calls Flux And Viacom To The Mat
Silicon Valley based Ning and Los Angeles based Flux are “networks of networks” that allow communities to build feature rich social networks with a few clicks. Ning, which launched in 2005, has raised over $44 million in capital and has 130,000 social networks on its platform. Ning was founded ...
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Ning Milestone: 100k Social Networks
Ning will cross a sizeable milestone this weekend: 100,000 user created social networks on the platform (including this one ). That’s up from just 30,000 in February when they launched a new version of the service. The company is also saying that page views have been growing 40% month over ...
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Ning In Full
I have to hand it to Ning - it took them well over a year after their initial beta launch to fulfill their promise of allowing “anyone” to create social applications, but they’ve done it. Ning relaunches tonight with new functionality and an interface that allows even the most ...
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Ningbar Launches, Plus Ning Stats
Palo Alto based Ning made a significant change to their application interface on Friday, removing the mandatory sidebar on applications and replacing it with a fully customizable javascript bar across the top of the page. I met with CEO Gina Bianchini a week ago to see the changes. Gina also ...
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Ning 2.0
Ning is announcing on their company blog that they will be releasing new suff on Wednesday. I’m looking forward to this, and I’m hoping that they make me eat my critical words on them. If the release includes features that I saw at their office a couple of weeks ago, ...
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