As always when something significant happens, my RSS reader is choke full of writeups on Ning , the uncloaked version of Marc Andreessen’s 24 Hour Laundry. (not to be confused with the French Laundry)
I don’t know how to say it without actually saying it, so I might as well blurt it out: this is The LoN(in)g Tail of Software, using Joe Kraus’s classic definition – just like JotSpot.
references: John Batelle, BlogSpotting, Om Malik, Jeff Clavier, TechCrunch, Corante and the rest of the world…
Update (9/5): Chris Anderson, the “Father of the Long Tail” writes about Ning: The Long Tail of social software.
Update (9/6) : ZDNet joins me in drawing the parallel to JotSpot.
Tags: Ning, Social Software, Long Tail, JotSpot, Collaboration, Web 2.0
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