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Bulls vs. Bears

Overall, are you bullish or bearish on Ning?

73%

52 votes

27%

19 votes

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Do You Agree? The Bulls Say:

90%

21 votes
19 10% 2

02/05/2008

danl

Social networks are popular and growing

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90%

20 votes
18 10% 2

02/05/2008

danl

Marc Andreessen is involved

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79%

19 votes
15 21% 4

02/28/2008

dave

Ning has been the innovator in this space so has the strongest brand

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100%

15 votes
15 0% 0

02/28/2008

dave

Their page views have been growing steadily over time

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93%

14 votes
13 7% 1

03/21/2008

danl

They report over 200,000 social networks on its platform as of 3/08

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100%

12 votes
12 0% 0

04/19/2008

applekid

They just raised another $60mm!

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67%

9 votes
6 33% 3

04/20/2008

rmowery

Ning is the infrastructure and platform (PaaS) for this space

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80%

10 votes
8 20% 2

04/23/2008

lwang

great service

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100%

9 votes
9 0% 0

04/23/2008

agmachine

Very user friendly

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71%

7 votes
5 29% 2

04/24/2008

robinrath

They had a great cover story in Fast Company in May 2008

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100%

6 votes
6 0% 0

05/19/2008

gordonng

A very Intelligent Concept with easily customised Social Network page.

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100%

4 votes
4 0% 0

08/08/2008

tommyb

Easy to use but still really slow to interact with

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100%

2 votes
2 0% 0

08/10/2008

kevburnsjr

Sparse on features, but a very fitting product for the industry.

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100%

3 votes
3 0% 0

08/12/2008

bbrunelle

Lots of money invested

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100%

1 vote
1 0% 0

09/19/2008

ipluck

Very interesting

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100%

1 vote
1 0% 0

09/23/2008

devans00

Diverse online communities I belong to are set up on Ning platform. Diversity is good.

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100%

1 vote
1 0% 0

09/30/2008

troyspur

first mover advantage; cashed up

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100%

1 vote
1 0% 0

10/02/2008

deemeetree

Come on, maybe the social networks are declining, but then I made my own in 3 minutes. Amazing.

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Do You Agree? The Bears Say:

100%

19 votes
19 0% 0

02/05/2008

dave

There is growing competition in this space

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05/18/2008

gordonng

Yes it's true, but these smart guys allow people create their own social network space with versatility and it's great.
05/22/2008

lijipei

what is base ?
07/25/2008

ryean

Ning has good network effect by this point. I see a lot popping up, some may do a better job but Ning has the community. Also, the customization is still quite unique.
84%

19 votes
16 16% 3

03/27/2008

steve

Users will soon get tired of all of the different social networks they get invited to

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07/25/2008

ryean

Not when you derive value from social networks
57%

7 votes
4 43% 3

04/22/2008

ywong137

Silly ex-Netscapers, people don't want platforms, they want other users!

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05/20/2008

john

The fact that there are more than 200K social networks built on Ning proves you wrong
100%

1 vote
1 0% 0

09/05/2008

steelblade

bringing the downsides of the network effect to every interest group near you...

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