a Second Life for web apps
Friday, January 20, 2006, 08:40 PM - Games
Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building social apps - web apps that enable anyone to match, transact, and communicate with other people. With Ning, you can build and use social apps for just about anything.
Developing your social apps on the Ning Playground has some advantages:
* App creation tools - including the ability to view the source code of and clone any running app on the Ning Playground
* App management, hosting, and security
* Example Apps you can clone and run in minutes
* User registration, user profile and role management
* Tagging as a built-in service for every app
* Navigation and search
You can develop an app from scratch by viewing the source code of other running apps to get ideas. Or, simply clone any running app and then modify it however you'd like. To see app source code or to clone, click any View Source or Clone this App link on the Ning Sidebar, found on the right hand 225 pixels of any app page.
When you clone an app, your new app's source code is a copy of the source code of the app you cloned. Your new app works the same as the original, only now you own it and can modify it in any way that you want - run it "as is" or apply it to a new location, interest, topic, or language.
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