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	<title>Comments on: Ning was in trouble from the start</title>
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		<title>By: Yoz</title>
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		<description>(Initial disclaimer: I work for Ning.)

All good points, with one notable exception: Ning is not, currently, a social networking site. We've had a couple of simple, small social networking apps, but primarily we're a platform for creating new apps. However, you're right in that it's all about critical mass, and we're not there yet. But this is not news to us, nor reason to write us off. We're only a small way into our overall plan, much of which involves radically improving the ease-of-app-creation for non-technical users, out of which we hope to get more useful apps, out of which we hope to get more users. We are certainly putting work into PR, biz dev and marketing, though today has certainly been a wake-up call that we're not doing enough.</description>
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<p>All good points, with one notable exception: Ning is not, currently, a social networking site. We&#8217;ve had a couple of simple, small social networking apps, but primarily we&#8217;re a platform for creating new apps. However, you&#8217;re right in that it&#8217;s all about critical mass, and we&#8217;re not there yet. But this is not news to us, nor reason to write us off. We&#8217;re only a small way into our overall plan, much of which involves radically improving the ease-of-app-creation for non-technical users, out of which we hope to get more useful apps, out of which we hope to get more users. We are certainly putting work into PR, biz dev and marketing, though today has certainly been a wake-up call that we&#8217;re not doing enough.</p>
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