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Ning's business model
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- alaskamiller 19y agomaybe they should talk to myspace or facebook about trying to monetize. $1 gifts!
- aagha 19y agoThere model's not a bad one. Most analysts predictions is that in social networking, two things will happen: A) There will be a couple of massive players (Myspace, Facebook, etc.) B) There will be a ton of niche players--you already see this with sites that cater specifically to pet lovers (http://www.petcrash.com/ http://www.petcrash.com/, http://fuzzster.com http://fuzzster.com), expectant fathers (http://www.brandnewdad.com http://www.brandnewdad.com), etc. Andreessen is betting (probably correctly) that people will be much more interested in using a service like Ning than going out and building their own social networking site from scratch. He can monitize on targeted ads and value-added features, and it seems like B (above) is in fact not only happening, but working well! Ning passes 200,000 social networks http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/03/ning-passes-200.html http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/03/ning-passes-200.html Some interesting elements: - "We're experiencing 0.5%+ day-over-day growth of number of networks on Ning, which means that we're adding more than 1,000 new networks per day -- and that's accelerating." - "Over 70% of the networks on Ning are active, as defined by 'used in the last 30 days'"