Sounds like this is how Ning will raise it's next millions of dollars of financing. By giving each person their own "Social Network" they have a way to utilize the existing userbase in a new way and go ask for more money.
Ning Exposed - Tech Company Scams its Clients
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#12This brings few questions:
Can you really trust your platform(cloud) provider? Is your data save? Will you ever be able to get it back?
Re: Ning Exposed - Tech Company Scams its Clients
#13I really didn't understand the pyramid scam part of this article, but many of the other points that it makes are totally true. My company got bit when they disabled access to the php source code without warning back in the fall. We had customized a Ning site fairly heavily. Also they used to have a REST api to access the data that was stored in their "Ning Content Store". I'm not sure when they disabled access to tha…
I wonder what benefits does Ning provide? Surely by now there should be open source projects covering the same set of functionalities? I think you can not even take your account from one Ning network to the next?
At least these days a Ning account is global--I just signed up for a Ning powered site a few weeks back and it was made clear early on that the login would work for any Ning site.