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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 …

Sharing Information and Gaining Web Traffic - Two Birds With One Stone March 21, 2006

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One of the obviously great things about the Internet is that there are unlimited, innovative ways for people to interact with each other. Right now, one of the popular ways is social bookmarking. Social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, and Digg are wildly popular, and could be what a blogger needs to increase their profile and web traffic. Related sites like Newsvine go one step further and include both reader-submitted stories and original newswire content.

While there are several purposes for social bookmarking sites, sharing stories and gaining traffic are some of the reasons bloggers should look into them. …