Ning - Create Your Own Social Network

The Ning is a website that allows its members to create their social network. Ning was founded by Marc Andreesen and Gina Bianchini. Development of this social Web site started on October, 2004 and was launched to public October, 2005.

Ning has its office based on Palo Alto, California. The meaning of "Ning" in Chinese is peace and also a Chinese surname. Membership can be free or paid. Free membership users see advertizements and paid members have option to control advertisement display. This social networking website claims that it has about 33 million registered members and 1 million social networks at present. Members can join existing social networks or create their own one.

Ning.com development:

Ning website is different from other social websites such as MySpace, Facebook as it allows to create their own networks. This website raised an amount of $44 million in venture capital led by Lagg Mason and also announced that it raised $60 million USD from investors. Revenue of this website comes from online advertisement's on its site and also through paid membership.

It also allows customization up to some level on how their social network looks. Member can change the CSS style.

In November, 2008 this website partnered with Scripts4Ning to integrate developer products directly on to the Ning social networks.

Current usage:

Ning is currently used by its members to start their own social network. When a social network is created it gets a URL of the type http://www.socialnetworkname.ning.com. The web address can be picked when you are creating your social network.

The social networks hoisted by this website can be joined by other Ning members. Search feature is offered to easily search for other members content. Members can share and sell addon's to individual groups using this site. Recently Ning.com has removed adult networks the company just given a month for the existing members to move on.

Future developments:

Ning.com is eying on all aspects of the society for using their social networking site, from gamers to farmers. Ning.com is offering a very good platform for sharing one's society they can upload photos, videos. Its also trying to be best among all social networking sites. So lets hope ning.com gets to the top by offering some cool features in the future.

User benfits:

The big benefit of using Ning is that you can create your own community In ning.com users can create communities and let other users join in the community all this for free.

Ning.com is having thousands of members using that so users can search the community of their interest and join them and have benefits. Users can also send e-blasts for the members of their community instantly. Users can also have free and paid plans, in free plans also users can enjoy the key benfits.

Technical explanation:

Users have a benefit of easy registration and once you have clicked on the create button then you will be asked the name of your community and name of your community address. Then you will be asked to enter your entire details like name, email, birthday and password. Once you have given details correctly then you will have to verify your email address.

We can customize our layout of our page from a very user friendly interface. Next we can select a theme we like from the available themes of customize our own theme. After setting up all then it's our turn to enter our home page here we can customize the page, invite friends, add comments and upload media content.