Posted by Korak1 on May 2, 2007 at 6:57am
This is a follow-on to the question I raised at the meeting about wondering "how to compete when creating an online community is no longer a challenge". If everyone can flip a switch and have a fully-functioning online community site, what does that mean?
Check out www.ning.com
It allows people to create an account and thereby create a social network for free. It looks like there is quite a lot of functionality "out of the box". A Drupal install profile could create a similar environment I think where a new signup creates a new database/subdomain and has a default configuration. Anyway, looks like a strong offering for the masses. I don't know what to think about it yet...
Korak