Comments on: Gina Bianchini: The Web Is Still Walled http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/25/gina-bianchini-the-web-is-still-walled/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:54:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/25/gina-bianchini-the-web-is-still-walled/comment-page-1/#comment-800462 Chris Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:20:27 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3024#comment-800462 "According to Bianchini, a new social network is added to Ning every 30 seconds and 65% of them are active (user logins within the past month)." Is a network active if one user logs in in the past month? If that's the case there's a need for a better metric. Active should maybe be groups larger than 50 with 20% of users logging in in the past month. If I was an investor that's what I'd want to know. “According to Bianchini, a new social network is added to Ning every 30 seconds and 65% of them are active (user logins within the past month).”

Is a network active if one user logs in in the past month? If that’s the case there’s a need for a better metric. Active should maybe be groups larger than 50 with 20% of users logging in in the past month. If I was an investor that’s what I’d want to know.

]]> By: Force Flow http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/25/gina-bianchini-the-web-is-still-walled/comment-page-1/#comment-800095 Force Flow Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:18:34 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3024#comment-800095 don't be so quick to praise ning...they recently shut down a 3rd-party plugin developer without warning: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/22/ning-shuts-down-premium-developer-widgetlaboratory/comment-page-3/ As far as I know, there's been no resolution as of yet. don’t be so quick to praise ning…they recently shut down a 3rd-party plugin developer without warning:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/22/ning-shuts-down-premium-developer-widgetlaboratory/comment-page-3/

As far as I know, there’s been no resolution as of yet.

]]> By: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/25/gina-bianchini-the-web-is-still-walled/comment-page-1/#comment-800058 Truth is Stranger Than Fiction Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:52:08 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3024#comment-800058 It may have been helpful to scratch a little deeper than the surface regarding her claim that Ning is "open". After that widget fiasco in August, the entire platform has turned into a miniature version of tiananmen square, with Gina driving the Tanks. All comments or questions about Ning's heavy-handed tactics get deleted and the site creators banned. The Forum is also now locked to anyone joining without approval. Ask how you can get your data out of Ning? Good luck to anyone who tries to do so on their own, because it cannot be done unless you either hire a developer or you go to the those same popular widget guys who got cold cocked by Ning. Most of Ning's sites are empty one-person domain name grabs. They also hide all the details of site size and content from public view, because the facts are not pretty. It may have been helpful to scratch a little deeper than the surface regarding her claim that Ning is “open”. After that widget fiasco in August, the entire platform has turned into a miniature version of tiananmen square, with Gina driving the Tanks. All comments or questions about Ning’s heavy-handed tactics get deleted and the site creators banned. The Forum is also now locked to anyone joining without approval.

Ask how you can get your data out of Ning? Good luck to anyone who tries to do so on their own, because it cannot be done unless you either hire a developer or you go to the those same popular widget guys who got cold cocked by Ning.

Most of Ning’s sites are empty one-person domain name grabs. They also hide all the details of site size and content from public view, because the facts are not pretty.

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