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If only Ning were as easy to hack on as WordPress!    Ning is a different animal in that you can’t just throw a Ning up on your own hosting like you can with WP.   All Ning social networks reside on Ning’s servers.  They can’t be deployed elsewhere because they rest on  a proprietary inner core (written in Java)  that Ning don’t give out.     When we say hacking Ning we have to specify our level of involvement.  It can fall anywhere from superficial to committed.
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For those who have been asleep, educate yourself on Ning, the up-and- coming social network platform. It allows anybody to create their own free full featured network and it’s no harder than creating a blog on blogger. Of course, as people find out, the mere act of creating a ning space doesn’t mean you will instantly be the monarch of a thriving community, any more than creating a blog guarantees that you’ll have thousands of adoring fans worldwide and rake in the chips. Ning is in its infancy. I built a Ning network a few months ago with a local focus, but it wasn’t my primary focus, and I’m not stupid enough to have expected it to grow exponentially without serious marketing. My primary focus at the time was my own home-grown calendar aggregator.

But then everything changed…

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I nabbed this graphic off a-stat-a-day
Did you know we have a ning site of our very own? So if you visited it before these stats were compiled, your visits were included in these stats. And if not, it’s not too late to join it!