tag:,2008:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4550- 2008-08-22T19:08:21Z Comments for Ning! Movable Type 4.1 tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4550 2005-10-04T07:29:11Z 2007-12-16T23:15:50Z Ning! 24 Hour Laundry, the secretive start-up of Marc Andresson, has just released their new product - Ning. It's a free online service for "building and using social applications". Basically it's a Web 2.0 development tool aimed at non-developers. Developers too will benefit from it, because it sounds like a Ruby on Rails for mash-ups -... Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com 24 Hour Laundry, the secretive start-up of Marc Andresson, has just released their new product - Ning. It's a free online service for "building and using social applications". Basically it's a Web 2.0 development tool aimed at non-developers. Developers too will benefit from it, because it sounds like a Ruby on Rails for mash-ups - i.e. an easy-to-use development framework.

So what does Ning do? Users can take parts from various web apps and build something unique and personalized. The Ning FAQ explains: "Our goal with Ning is to see what happens when you open things up and make it easy to create, share, and discover new social apps."

Fred over at TechCrunch has profiled it and he wrote:

"It means anyone can now get their ideas out there and build a project (some people would call it a mash-up) in a few clicks, with no developer experience. And if you are a developer, you can pop under the hood and change it to your liking, no questions asked."

It sounds absolutely amazing, so I can't wait to have a play. The Ning team is excited on their blog. This is just the start of the big announcements this week, btw...

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4550-comment:36403 Comment from anon on 2005-10-04 anon http://www.overthehegemon.com It sounds really cool. There is a range of sites created so far - from awful to quite good. Thanks for the info.

]]> 2005-10-05T00:41:42Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4550-comment:36404 Comment from WD Milner on 2005-10-06 WD Milner http://www.milner.ca It does sound interesting and I'd love to look but I have tried on several occasions to reach 24hourlaundry.com and ning.com and both die with "redirection exceeded errors.

The joys of the internet.

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