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Ning gets its own Apps Platform, so many to choose from!
The new apps aren’t just social in nature, but impressively functional, combining passion and purpose for all niche audiences. So groups that want to create their own store or sell items (like music) can select from 10 different e-commerce apps. Networks looking to collaborate can tap into 18 different options like wikis, file storage (via Box.net), docs (via Google Docs), video chat (via ToxBox), and whiteboards (via Huddle).
Below is partial list, and some apps of note are are Cartfly, Wildfire, and Tickets by Ticketmaster. Cartfly will enable any social network creator to create a custom store front to sell merchandise. Wildfire can be used by the social causes crowds to raise funds and create challenges. And Tickets by Ticketmaster (LiveNation and Amiando have apps too) will make it possible for big (and small) ticket bands to promote their shows and sell tickets.
Collaboration
A Wiki (Wiki)
Huddle (Share documents and collaborate through whiteboards)
Box.net (Store files on your social network)
Google Docs
NewsShare by Slinkset (collaborative news sharing and discovery)
WordPress (Integrate a WordPress blog into the main page of your social network)
Reviews by Notches (Add review functionality to your network)
Classifieds by Adbhai (Add classifieds functionality to your network)
SearchMe() (visually search your network’s content or the web)
Flinkit by Sapplica (share interesting links)
Zoho Office Suite (six separate apps for Calendar, Docs, Mail, Planner, Contacts and Tasks Apps)
Clackpoint (Add voice conference functionality to your network)
VoxBox by Sapplica (Add polls and discussions to your network)
Communication
Ustream (Streaming of live events)
Twitter Tracker (Display a Twitter stream on the main page of your social network)
Tokbox (Video chat)
Mailchimp (Email campaigns)
Qik (Live streaming from mobile devices)
Zorap (Live multimedia chat and sharing)
YapLoud (lightweight browser-based chat)
Superchat by Sapplica (alternative chat environment)
Contact Us by LiveWired (add a simple contact form to your social network)
Internet Voicemail by Meternet (add voicemail to your network)
E-Commerce
Cartfly (Build your own store)
Shopit (Sell merchandise directly from your social network)
Amiando (Event ticket sales)
Wildfire (Run your own contests)
Tickets By Ticketmaster (Sell tickets to your favorite concerts and events right from your social network)
Bizmo (Music merchandising)
EventBee (Event ticket sales)
Tickets by LiveNation (Sell tickets to your favorite concerts and events right from your social network)
Wishlist (Display your Amazon wishlist and let visitors purchase items)
Netcarnation Marketplace (Build or add your own store)
Fundraising
PincGiving (Launch a fundraising campaign on your social network and track your results)
Socialvibe (Raise money for your favorite cause by letting brands sponsor you online)
Zazengo (Match your member interests, the needs of non-profits, and your impact)
Citizen’s Voice by Sapplica (create action campaigns)
Social Pledge (assist with social action campaigns)
Games & Fun
Emote! by RockYou (Share your spur of the moment thoughts and feelings with your friends)
PollDaddy (Run polls on your social network)
BlogTalkRadio (Host your own Internet radio show)
SmallWorlds (Join and create your own virtual world)
Games by j2play (Play all of your favorite games from chess and checkers to arcade classics, 10 games)
Games by come2play (Social gaming, 19 games)
Games by Mindjolt (Social gaming)
Games by GameDesire (Social gaming, 5 games)
Offbeat Guides (let your members build and order customized travel guides for events, conferences, etc.)
Speed Dating 2.0 (Add video dating functionality to your social network)
Rentals (Visually display rentals from your Netflix or Blockbuster queues)
Now Playing (Visually display your latest playback activity on Last.fm or iLike)
BuboMe (manipulate your friends’ photos)
Centrl by Unype (geolocate yourself on a map and view others nearby)
Live Cricket, Live Soccer and Daily Horoscope (add news and horoscope updates to your social network)
Already known is that Twitter is a hotbed for application developers, and that Facebook’s Open API Stream will attract plenty of developer love too, but this latest move by Ning, which has taken four months to develop is both impressive and a platform for developers to get their teeth into.
Ning Apps will be rolled out in private beta to a select group of network creators starting today. The full rollout is planned for the end of the month.
Feel free to add your comments. I've been waiting for the e-tail apps, sorely missing on here, what would everyone else like to see?
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Happy New Homes Week
As the whole nation prepares to spend the next week enthusiastically celebrating the wonderful world of new homes, we thought this might be a good opportunity to take stock of the market and cross some optimistic fingers that we might all be headed in the right direction at last.It can’t go unmentioned that the start of New Homes Week, September 12th, is two years to the day since the board of Northern Rock first asked the Bank of England for a “liquidity support facility” (a sub, to you and me), due to its exposure to bad debt in the American sub-prime mortgage market. Within a few days worried savers had withdrawn £2 billion from Northern Rock and in February of the following year the bank was privatised.
If we can see this event as the start of the enormous downturn we’ve all been enduring these last two years, perhaps it’s not too early to look back over more recent months and ask whether we aren’t starting to climb our way out of trouble: there aren’t many green shoots around yet, but are we starting to lay down their roots?
Housebuilder Magazine for one has found some fairly substantial reasons to be cheerful. Obviously there’s a vested interest here, but even considering the source, the news is significant nonetheless. Reported recently alongside a “reservation surge for Bovis”, a “sales boost for Taylor Wimpey” and a “reservations boost” for both Miller and Galliford Try, were the results of an online poll carried out by the magazine, according to which 86% of respondents believed the market had bottomed out.
For a less biased but still really rather positive view, we might look at the most recent figures posted by the Land Registry’s house price index, which recorded a month on month house price rise for August of 1.7%. Across the country the year on year movement is still in negative figures, but the performance in August has begun to chip away at this, and in Wales the average house price has even had a year on year increase, of 3.1%.
Elsewhere, the Nationwide has also reported a rise in prices, for the fourth consecutive month. The lender has recorded a 3.2% rise in the average sale price over the first 8 months of 2009 and highlights the quarter on quarter rise of 3.3% seen for August as the highest increase since February 2007.
So, we might not be all the way there yet, but good things do appear to be happening at last. A heady mix of low prices (an average of 17% down on January 2008’s peak), cheap - albeit still difficult to come by- credit, realistic valuations from private sellers, pent up demand and under supply seems to be doing the trick.
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