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Roll Your Own Social-Photo-Video-Sharing Site With Ning October 7, 2006

I’ve written about Ning in the past. The general ideas is briliant: create a few plug’n'play building blocks, invite deveopers to join for free and let them create their own mashup of functionality. True modular web service creation, with reduced development time - sometimes all it takes is 5-15 minutes to put something together.

Well they’ve added a few more modules that you can use to build your own photo-sharing or video-sharing site. There’s also a module for creating a social network. So you can combine these and older modules to come up with some fairly interesting combinations. Older modules include classified listings and maps, amongst probably hundreds of others. There is even an auction module that lets you embed eBay auction items on your Ning site.

So you could even set up a very customized auction. For example, if you are a classic car reseller, you could set up an auction item over at eBay, then setup a combo of the video and photo modules to show more visual detail for a car, including video close ups. And if you wanted to promote this, you could use social network module, invite other car collectors to join up, and encourage them to invite friends. Just pass out your business card with your Ning URL, and you have a year-round network of car enthusiasts that know each other from car shows.

[Additional sources: Mashable]