Netscape founders new venture

Mark Andreessen, who had successfully built and sold the first user-friendly web browser – Netscape, is now the CTO of Ning, a software that allows one to make their own social networking site without having to write any code.

The current social networking sites are one-size-fits-all giants. people would want to network with people around their interests – a sports team, knitting, database technology, MS Dhoni, etc. Just as there are websites (millions and millions) created by people around their interest group, a large number of social networks would come up around interest groups.

Ning has templates for hosting discussions, sharing music, photo, videos. It is an asp hosted servcie with back end built on Java where the user gets access to all the APIs. Launched in 2005, the product has been redone and reintroduced.