Joel Liu's Library tagged ning → View Popular

02 Mar 06

Charles Simonyi’s Intentional Software and JotSpot both positioned themselves as
providing just such a platform — but neither has gone all that far. Ning’s focus
is definitely much more on getting developers involved, but it still will depend
on whether or not those developers do anything.
If you start to think about it more as social situated software, suddenly the
idea becomes a lot more interesting. The idea of situated software is that it
serves a specific need for a specific (often very small) group of people. It
doesn’t need to scale. It just needs to serve that group.
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- This raises one big question: the core value of most social application is in
  whether or not it can build a real community. eBay, Craigslist, Flickr,
  del.icio.us and others really succeeded because of the communities they built,
  rather than just the technology. Thus, the idea of having lots of people easily
  creating new social applications might not seem too appealing. Those apps are
  pretty much worthless without the community, right?

(If you're familiar with RDF and the SPARQL query language, you're probably
thinking "Fine, but boil it down for me: how is the Ning Content Store different
from an RDF database?")
The biggest difference between the Content Store and a traditional RDBMS is that
in the Content Store, there is no definition of content structure separate from
actual content. There are no table schemas that must be set up before rows are
inserted.
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- The Ning Content Store stores all the content items for all the Ning
  applications: bookmarks, reviews, restaurants, teachers, wish lists,
  babysitters, calendars, and so on. It keeps track of metadata about each content
  item as well such as who contributed the item, which application owns the item,
  and the tags that users have applied to the item.

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