Ning is an online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks, launched in October 2005. Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini. Ning is Andreessen’s third startup (after Netscape and Opsware), and gets much of its notability from Andreessen’s successes with those companies.
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