Ning’s New Features
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Both Mashable and TechCrunch have coverage of Ning Apps, the suite of application tools which will soon be available to Ning network creators. Ning is a social networking platform which enables people to create their own social networks quickly and easily without having any particular technical knowledge (there are now 1 million Ning networks). Ning Apps is now in private beta but will soon deploy 90 new features which will add functionality such as wikis, the ability to sell merchandise, store files, host contests, buy tickets, etc. Different from Facebook and MySpace Apps, Ning Apps are geared toward network creators who can roll out the functionality to the entire network, vs. just for individuals. Here are just a few of the upcoming Ning Apps slated to be released at the end of May:
Collaboration
A Wiki (Wiki)
Huddle (Share documents and collaborate through whiteboards)
Box.net (Store files on your social network)
Google Docs
NewsShare by Slinkset (collaborative news sharing and discovery)
WordPress (Integrate a WordPress blog into the main page of your social network)
Reviews by Notches (Add review functionality to your network)
Classifieds by Adbhai (Add classifieds functionality to your network)
SearchMe (Searchme reviews) (visually search your network’s content or the web)
Flinkit by Sapplica (share interesting links)
Zoho Office Suite (six separate apps for Calendar, Docs, Mail, Planner, Contacts and Tasks Apps)
Clackpoint (Add voice conference functionality to your network)
VoxBox by Sapplica (Add polls and discussions to your network)
Communication
Ustream (Streaming of live events)
Twitter Tracker (Display a Twitter stream on the main page of your social network)
Tokbox (Video chat)
Mailchimp (Email campaigns)
Qik (Live streaming from mobile devices)
Zorap (Live multimedia chat and sharing)
YapLoud (lightweight browser-based chat)
Superchat by Sapplica (alternative chat environment)
Contact Us by LiveWired (add a simple contact form to your social network)
Internet Voicemail by Meternet (add voicemail to your network)
See more in the full Mashable post.

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