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A Week in the Valley: Ning

A Week in the Valley: Ning:

By nat

I met with the Ning crew in mid-June, the week before Where 2.0. Many thanks to Gina, David, Diego and others for taking the time to walk me through everything. I went in thinking “they’re a crappy PHP hosting environment” and came away (a) knowing what they are, and (b) impressed. Read on to learn what changed my mind ….

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Conclusion

Anyway, I’m way more interested in Ning than I was before. I think they’ve got some really good people (operations guy from Earthlink knows his stuff), are built on interesting technology (Java 5 without J2EE, something I’m hearing more than once, and the Atom publishing stuff), and have a hell of an inversion of the conventional nerd wisdom which might actually turn out to be better for the user.

Worth reading for ideas on scalable architecture…

(Via O’Reilly Radar.)