Ning Expedition

Hey Everybody,

Guess what, now if you want to make your own MicrBlogging community you can do so at http://www.twingr.com . It's pretty cool, it's everything you'd expect from microblogging, except since it's so early in it's development you can't edit things like the community logo after you've created the community which is annoying.

The features seem cool, there's plenty that can be done to organize the look and feel, but it's hard to really mess up microblogging, and the link field seperate from the main post is nice as well.

Alex

Hey Guys,

Luckily I got my socialgo.com invite and I really like SocialGo.coms features the only thing I find really annoying is that it's only one network per account instead of being able to make multiple networks. I really enjoy the layout and the ability to really edit and customize the feel of every tab.

Check out my SocialGo.com Network

Now this is a real Ning Competitor.

Top 5 Social Network creators as of now

1) Ning.com
2) SocialGo.com
3) Flux.com
4) Kickapps.com
5) Onesite.com

Hey,


Another Social Network creator just entered beta, and if you get into the beta you get free access to premium features till 2009. SocialGo.com is the place, not much else to say since I'm not in the beta quite yet.

- Alex

Hey Guys,

It's been awhile since we've actually taken a look at a Ning Network, what I love about the ease of being able set one of these things up nowadays is the ability to really create super bizarre niches that VC's wouldn't necessarily feel worth the time. Also for people like Me, it's a great personal branding tool, yet I'm not the only one. The Game, 50 Cent, Natasha Beddingfield, and more have used this to this means. An interesting one I've seen recently is PickUpTara.com which is a network for Tara of VH1's Pick Up Artists.

She does live broadcasting from this network which is one of the biggest differentiators to me, which is a great service to fans. Overall if your fan, it' has great content, I personally never heard of the show since I don't watch much tv outside of Heroes/Chuck/Dexter.

- Alex

Can't say there's much new to say about the white label social network world in the last few weeks, although different platforms to create communities are always appearing. First off Mashable did a great list of wiki services to create your own collaborative wiki community.

http://mashable.com/2008/07/29/wiki-solutions/


Also as far promoting your community and finding others, linqia.com has to be one of the coolest sites I've found being a massive human powered social network and community directory.

Sadly, that's all I really got for now other than I purchased some MOO cards that I'm way too excited about.

Hey Guys,

I've become addicted to Ping.fm service that allows me to post my status to several networks without much effort. They also added a Custom URL feature to be able to setup scripts to post any network you want and this is what I'd like to see someone do, make a script or webapp for posting to all my Ning networks.

Essentially a new web app where I can enter in all different Ning profiles and info and it gives me a URL for the Custom URL feature which then enables me to post to all my setup ning profiles with ease.

Another thing I'd like to see from PING.fm is functionality for the social networks for Yahoo360, Livespaces, and Orkut cause well if we can use Gtalk, AIM, and YM to update our status I should be able to to at least update their corresponding social networks.


If you not a member of Ping yet, the current betacode is "pingscompany"

Well,

I'm excited to hear that Userplane and Meebo will both be offering solutions to add Facebook chat like features to social networks big and small. I'm even more excited to see if Ning will partner up with one of them to add functionality to their networks or develop their own in house IM feature. In the meantime I added a Meebo Room to the Alex Merced Community.

Another network I admin for the brand, SHANE&SHAWN, has went 100+ members so go check out SHANE&SHAWN Worldwide.

Also I mentioned SlinkSet in my last post so I created Tech Social News site using it called Merced2.0. So go check it out it's already being fed news from some of the best Tech blogs on the net and plus I embedded a Meebo room so you can discuss the news while you vote up and down tech news!!!

So many ways to create communities, and so many more I'm sure there is to come so keep me posted on any news you think would be right for Ning Expedition.

- Alex