Wednesday, April 05, 2006

What Is A Ning?

posted by Ronnie Rocket @ 10:44 PM   1 comments

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At 12:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

In last week's Mailbox, the roll-your-own web application tool Ning was the point of focus for one of our readers. Curiously, he didn't present any gripes about Paul Adams' article, but rather the application itself. This week, we present the response of Yoz Grahame, developer advocate at Ning.

Say Any-Ning

Editor:
Firstly, we'd like to congratulate Paul Adams on his superb article about our service, Ning. Not only was it brilliantly written, but it provided a speedy and informative introduction which perfectly communicated the aims of the Ning Playground. Bravo!

In response to Lewis Morgan's later missive, questioning the suitability of Ning for business purposes: Many of Lewis's requested features are covered by our Premium Services. For a small monthly fee, app owners can not only use their own domain name for their Ning App but also prevent the source code from being viewed or cloned by others. He raises a valid point about the prevalence of Ning's branding. We will be addressing this with a forthcoming release in which the page area taken up by our branding is both greatly reduced and more customizable. As for look and feel beyond our branding, this is under the complete control of the app owner; the reason that most Ning Apps look similar is simply that the owner felt no need to change the templates.

Finally, regarding the needs of business owners, we believe we meet those needs very well. All other things being equal, the majority of small business owners that I know appreciate the ability to get up and running with a new site for very little time and cost. Furthermore, they make own their Ning App — with our SFTP and REST API facilities, we make it very easy to download both the code and data for the app.

—Yoz Grahame
Ning Developer Advocate
Ninginc.com

 

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