Marc Andreessen's Social Platform: Ning 134
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."
Imposter Boy (Score:3, Informative)
Netscape always controlled the media when it came to the story about how the browser was first built. This is the only article that I've ever seen that actually went back to the place where it was created to find out the real story.
History is written by the victors.... Even if that "history" isn't true.
Re:"Redirection limit exceeded" (Score:2, Informative)
The PHPNuke of social apps? (Score:4, Informative)
Phillip.
Everyone's missing the point (Score:5, Informative)
It's the data. The SHARED data. It's an ecosystem, not just a platform or a hosted framework. Ning is much greater than any individual application, and I personally don't think that the true popularity will come from the dating applications. Ning's much bigger than any given application (and by that I mean piece of software and application as in "the way it's used"), and it's not a mega app. It's an app playground.
See my blog post on the subject: http://www.slash7.com/articles/2005/10/05/fun-tim
Re:How many social websites are needed? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Andreesen = synonymous with "failed business pl (Score:2, Informative)
Went big (as in dot com big) - sold off the European department to EDS.
Changed directions of LoudCloud and it is making some money - at least last time I checked.
He knows what investors are looking for and he has the skill the find good people and hire them. Good people and good investment money usally means you can make big coin... but not always.
Re:Is "ning" slang for "genitals" in Chinese? (Score:2, Informative)
Being a tonal language, "ning" could mean any number of things. The excellent hanzi dictionary, zhongwen.com [zhongwen.com] lists six different meanings [zhongwen.com] for "ning". It is important to note that zhongwen uses standard Mandarin (putonghua) pronouciation and not Shanghaiese. How much variation there is between the two I don't know. The only thing even close to slang for testicles is "lemons", and I doubt that's right. I would think iit was a proper noun.
FWIW standard Mandarin is really close to what is spoken in Beijing, but not exactly. Beijingers tend to end some words with 'r'. (e.g. "dian" becomes "diar" ("a little bit" or "hour") and kinda flat-vowel/whine some other words (e.g. "na" becomes "nei", "zhe" becomes "zhei" ("this" and "that")). When I asked my Chinese (meaning both the foriegn language and the nationality) TA about it, she said "You want to use the standard Mandarin. You don't want to sound like you're from Beijing!" When asked why, she said, "They're stuck up. Like New Yorkers." I said it was fine with me, as long as I didn't sound like a hick.
Ni de zhongwen ke jieshu le. (Hopefully that says, "Your Chinese lesson has ended."