Ning (website)

Ning, Inc.
Type of business	Subsidiary
Type of site	Social networking service, Community building platform
Available in	Multilingual
Founded	Palo Alto, California (2004)
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Founder(s)	Gina Bianchini; Marc Andreessen;
Employees	> 50 (2014)
URL	www.ning.com
Launched	October 2005

Ning is an online social media network platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks.^[3] Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini and launched in October 2005.^[2] By June 2011 there were over 90,000 social websites running on the Ning Platform.^[4]

^ ^a ^b "Corporate Info, History" Archived 2011-07-30 at the Wayback Machine, Ning. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Ok, I am excited by Gina Bianchini, Ning Blog, October 3, 2005
^ Social Graph-iti, The Economist, Oct 18, 2007
^ With Revenue Up 400%, Ning Adds Paid Access Service, Tomio Geron, Forbes, June 15, 2011

[presshistory-1] "Corporate Info, History" Archived 2011-07-30 at the Wayback Machine, Ning. Retrieved June 12, 2011.

[Ning_Blog-2] Ok, I am excited by Gina Bianchini, Ning Blog, October 3, 2005

[economist-3] Social Graph-iti, The Economist, Oct 18, 2007

[networkcount3-4] With Revenue Up 400%, Ning Adds Paid Access Service, Tomio Geron, Forbes, June 15, 2011

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