eNetworking 101: The Blog: Zen's monthly newsletter (Excerpts related to Ning & YouTube)

There is an interesting newsletter that is produced in the U.K. each monthly Zen Internet Ltd. The newsletter -- which can be read or listened to -- provides quick information on Internet technologies. Here are two excerpts from the Dec. 2007 newsletter:

NING

Ning, a service that lets people with no technical knowledge create their own social networks, has passed a new milestone: Users have created more than 115,000 individual networks, the company said. Offering the opportunity to "Create Your Own Social Network for Anything", Ning lets you set up a Web site with features such as a forum, blogs, photo gallery, groups and more all in a few minutes. It’s also a platform for developers to create their own features. But it’s still not clear how it will ever get big enough to justify the massive $44 million investment it received earlier this year, or the $9 million spent on development and running costs before that.

http://short.zen.co.uk/?id=8dc

http://www.ning.com

VIDEO TO GO

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http://short.zen.co.uk/?id=8de

To read or listen to the entire newsletter, go here.

This is a newsletter that you might want to subscribe to. You can read it or listen to it while you work on something else. I just listened to the December issue while shredding documents and doing some filing.