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by Brian McCallister.
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Ning launched! Lots of folks have a lot to
say about Ning if you haven't bumped across it yet, but I'll say my
bit about what is most exciting technically to me =)
Ning is a public, schemafied, taggable, and free datastore for the
web. The public content stuff is the exciting part -- any app can
query across any app other app's data. You can fetch, say, every
entity in the content repository which calls itself a Dog. You can
only modify what you own, but you can see anyone elses. Oh, you can
fetch them programmatically in Ning, or as an RSS feed, or via
custom REST services, or... well, be imaginative. This is pretty
cool. It is one of those things that if you think about for fifteen
minutes you can come up with some really cool ideas,
but... but... the best ideas are far over the horizon. This is
enabling more than anything. Stuff no one has ever
thought of will appear.
It's standards based, its open, you own everything you contribute
(but license it under creative-commons attribution based licensing
by default) -- both data and code. Cool stuff.
Oh, and I am totally into situated software, but that isn't a
technical cool point, so will talk about that later =)
I could go on for a bit, I'm pretty excited by this. Of course,
I am also moving to Palo Alto next week to work there, so I had
better be!
Major kudos to the 24HL folks who have been working like crazy to
get this out, I can't wait to join you.
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