Tech Review: The thing about Ning

As if you weren’t already saturated enough with social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter … along comes Ning.

Ning has actually been around since 2004 and has more than 37 million registered users. The concept is fairly simple: you sign up and start your own social networking site.

Instead of being part of one big club, you get to start your own club that others can join. The idea is to create a site for your particular niche; for example, there are several regional Nings about fly-fishing where fly fishermen can sign up and talk to each other in a chat room or on message boards. They can post photos or videos of their expeditions, which only other members of that particular Ning can see. Read more