d2r: ning!

ning!

About an hour ago tonight we took the covers off ning: a playground for building and using social applications on the web (how's that for a brief description?). A super simple way of getting personalized social apps up and running, or a way to experiment without having to worry about all the stuff that's usually, well, way too hard (like, say, DB setup--look ma! no DB!).

It's been an incredible year so far, lots of work but lots of fun too, working with a fantastic team. The last few weeks have been... intense. A million of things I want to write about, which for obvious reasons have been sidetracked.

Anyway, you can bet I'll be writing more about this later! :-)

Categories: ning, soft.dev
Posted by diego on October 3 2005 at 10:02 PM | TrackBack (5)

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Congrats, Diego. :-)

Posted by: Chris Shiflett at October 3, 2005 11:53 PM

Ah....a post. Good to see you back in the land of the living. It does look like you have been deep in the belly of the beast (based on this picture).

http://photosharing.ning.com/index.php?action=photo&id=157421

Congrats...great site. Worth it. Now do get back to posting!

And what do you mean "no DB!!" sacrilege

Posted by: Dermot at October 4, 2005 12:24 AM

Looks very interesting; I wish you every luck!

Posted by: Patroklos Argyroudis at October 4, 2005 1:03 AM

Yeah, congratulations on the launch! Great stuff.

Posted by: Phil Gyford at October 4, 2005 1:13 AM

Congrats to you and your team Diego. I believe Social Software is one of the next big areas of innovation and opportunities...

ceo

Posted by: C. Enrique Ortiz at October 4, 2005 5:44 AM

Congratulations Diego, did you license "shock and awe" tactics from the Republicans? ;-)

I found a small bug by the way - when you sign up for Developer status the tag list in the "Thank you.." page is rendered with broken links (no Ning in the URL).

Posted by: James Corbett at October 4, 2005 6:00 AM

Guys - amazing work. Very promising. Have not been this excited in I don't know how long. Just please hurry up and get me my developer account which I'm ever so patiently waiting for :-)

Keep up the good work.

Dave

Posted by: Dave Killeen at October 4, 2005 8:05 AM

Congratulations on getting it decloaked...it looks great at first glance. Cool idea. Look forward to a lot of Ninging (trying to verbiy it already).

Posted by: Michael Parekh at October 4, 2005 12:35 PM

Finally! Time to have a play about. Well done to you all.

Posted by: Martin Little at October 4, 2005 2:08 PM

Thanks everyone!

Dermot: that is truly a scary picture. I need to get some sleep!

Posted by: Diego at October 5, 2005 6:40 AM

Congrats Diego! Looks v. cool.

Posted by: dwlt at October 5, 2005 2:11 PM

Very cool. Love the content store and app cloning. Big ideas I think.

Can't wait to get out of the developer status queue and dig in.

I know y'all have to be getting pounded. It is getting a bit slow. I'd love to get some insight into the onslaught, the response, etc. when it subsides.

Posted by: Coty Rosenblath at October 5, 2005 2:32 PM

Dave: thanks!

Coty: indeed, I hope to have some time to talk about this stuff soon. It's been slowish at a few peak times, but generally it's held up ok. It's been quite a ride. :)

Posted by: Diego at October 7, 2005 10:35 AM