Monday, January 23, 2006
What's Wrong At Marc Andreessen's Ning?:
"Just about everything, in Mike Arrington's opinion. The online service for creating customized social applications out of other Web services--do-it-yourself mashups, in other words--launched only last October by the Netscape cofounder along with Ning CEO Gina Bianchini. Mostly, Mike thinks the promising company hasn't moved fast enough to help non-programmers create these applications. As a result, he says:
The reality of Ning is that it’s lost whatever coolness it had, no one uses it and Ning is going to have a very hard time getting people’s attention when they finally do roll out better functionality.
Hope to hear from Marc for his take, but Mike's analysis sounds reasonable. Still, it may be a tad early to write them off completely. Things do move ever faster these days, but if Ning really does find ways to make truly DIY Web services, I'll be there. As 37Signals' Jason Fried says, cool may wear off, but usefulness never does..."
"Just about everything, in Mike Arrington's opinion. The online service for creating customized social applications out of other Web services--do-it-yourself mashups, in other words--launched only last October by the Netscape cofounder along with Ning CEO Gina Bianchini. Mostly, Mike thinks the promising company hasn't moved fast enough to help non-programmers create these applications. As a result, he says:
The reality of Ning is that it’s lost whatever coolness it had, no one uses it and Ning is going to have a very hard time getting people’s attention when they finally do roll out better functionality.
Hope to hear from Marc for his take, but Mike's analysis sounds reasonable. Still, it may be a tad early to write them off completely. Things do move ever faster these days, but if Ning really does find ways to make truly DIY Web services, I'll be there. As 37Signals' Jason Fried says, cool may wear off, but usefulness never does..."
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