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pasquallie

9-8-2009 9:36 AM

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pasquallie says:

I heard about this from a school librarian. She couldn't really explain it so I had to look it up.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5f1cd619-4456-46c7-9572-a58425664af3/3B3710C8-4A99-4B8A-87E8-15D0327D003F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ning&oldid=311206616" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ning&oldid=311206616" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ning&oldid=311206616"><P>The word "Ning" is <A title="Standard Mandarin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Mandarin">Chinese</A> for "peace" (<A title="Simplified Chinese characters" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters">simplified Chinese</A>: <SPAN lang="zh-Hans" xml:lang="zh-Hans">宁</SPAN>; <A title="Traditional Chinese characters" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters">traditional Chinese</A>: <SPAN lang="zh-Hant" xml:lang="zh-Hant">寧</SPAN>; <A title="Pinyin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin">pinyin</A>: <I>níng</I>), as explained by Gina Bianchini on the company blog, and is also a surname in Chinese.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-definition_2-0"><A href="#cite_note-definition-2"><SPAN>[</SPAN>3<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ning&oldid=311206616"><P><B>Ning</B> is an online platform for people to create their own social networks <SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-economist_1-0"><A href="#cite_note-economist-1"><SPAN>[</SPAN>2<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP>, launched in October 2005.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ning_Blog_0-1"><A href="#cite_note-Ning_Blog-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> Ning was co-founded by <A title="Marc Andreessen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen">Marc Andreessen</A> and <A title="Gina Bianchini" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Bianchini">Gina Bianchini</A>. Ning is Andreessen's third company (after <A title="Netscape" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape">Netscape</A> and <A title="Opsware" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsware">Opsware</A>).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ning&oldid=311206616"><P>Ning has both free and paid options. When someone creates a social network on Ning, it is free by default and runs ads that Ning controls. If the person creating the social network chooses, they can pay to control the ads (or lack thereof), in exchange for a monthly fee. 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