Ning: Another Social App with Local Aspects

Thanks to Marty Himmelstein for alerting me about Ning, a social-media tool that covers a bunch of topics but has a local content area.

Here's a fairly extensive discussion from SiliconBeat. It's time to throw away skepticism about user-generated content (for those who remain skeptical) and embrace the concept.

The question now becomes separating the meaningful from the trivial apps in this area. (Here's yet another Zvents.)