Ning

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Ning is a company co-founded by Marc Andreessen (of Netscape fame) and Gina Bianchini. It launched its service in October 2005. Ning is an online platform for creating social websites and social networks. The websites running on its service are built in standard PHP and the platform itself is built in Java. Ning hopes to compete with large social sites like MySpace and Facebook by appealing to users who want to create networks around specific int... more

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  • Oct 2004

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Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in Cedar Falls, Iowa and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, United States) is known as an entrepreneur, investor, startup...

Gina Bianchini

Gina Bianchini is CEO of Ning, which she co-founded with Marc Andreessen. Prior to Ning, Bianchini was co-founder and president of Harmonic Communications...
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Ning Headquarters

Palo Alto California
United States of America

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  • Create Your Own Social Network for Anything

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