Marc Andreessen's Social Platform: Ning

An anonymous reader writes "As reported on SiliconBeat, Marc Andreessen has finally lifted the covers off his latest project: an applications structure called Ning, which makes the development of social websites like thefacebook.com and match.com more accessible. See TheGlu and Dating for examples of Ning in action."

Interesting concept

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe someone can be createive and come up with some useful applications for it.

TheGlu became unstuck

[LiquidCoooled]

theGLU is taking a short break. Back later!

Slashdot dating

[KiloByte]

So, uhm, where is the "Chicks for Sysadmins/C Programmers" section?

Re:dating.ning.com very popular...

[Anonymous Coward]

Why were you searching for 99 year old women in the first place.

CmdrTaco's dating profile...

[Afecks]

Interested in Meeting People for: Dating Men

Is somebody having a little fun [ning.com] with CmdrTaco?

Re:dating.ning.com very popular...

[It doesn't come easy]

"This is a test of the Emergency Dating System. The geeks of your area in voluntary cooperation with the Federal, State and local authorities have developed this system to give you hope in the unlikely event of an actual dating opportunity. If this had been an actual dating situation, the search results you just experienced would have been followed by the epiphany that no person of the female persuasion would even consider using such a system for dating in the first place, so you're wasting your time. This concludes this test of the Emergency Dating System."

Is "ning" slang for "genitals" in Chinese?

[CyricZ]

I'm not sure what dialect of Chinese they speak in Shanghai, but when I was there for business several years back I do recall seeing an incident involving the word "ning".

I think there were some young adults playing football (soccer, for you American folk) on a side street, and one of them got kicked in his genitals. I recall his friends yelling "NING! repeatedly. Does "ning" refer to the genitals themselves, or is it just part of a Chinese phrase used when genital injuries occur? Is it like the "kicked" in "You just got kicked in the nuts!" or is it the "nuts"?

Thank goodness!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank goodness for this - "Hot or Not" was just not fulfilling the needs of my online social group. A specialized version is just what we needed!

Re:Interesting concept

[generic-man]

Once Google's Orkut [orkut.com] comes out of beta, oh, man. It'll be like Friendster and Tribe and OKCupid and BDSMPartnerSearch.com.au all put together but with amazingly leet JavaScript.

But it won't be evil.

Re:CmdrTaco's dating profile...

[Gunfighter]

Occupation: Posting duplicate stories to a small news blog

Hah!

Re:The PHPNuke of social apps?

[OverlordQ]

Ning appears to be a social app framework written in PHP, hoping to do for social apps much what PHPNuke did for online magazines.

So we can expect 3-4 really bad security vulnerabilities a month till it reaches version 700000?

Re:What happened to farts.com, er, I mean loudclou

[Daengbo]

Autopr0n is, like, down and stuff.

Yeah, man, for like a year now. God I miss you. What the hell happened -- Thousands of horny geeks' underwear have just begun to dry out, and they need some relief. You took down your page, I stopped writing sex in Thailand stories... What's the world coming to?

A dating Profile Blog? BFD. The break through is..

[tyrione]

In actually signing up real and attractive people to actually date. That part of "Social Engineering" is beyond the scope of the Internet.