Get Your Own Social Networking Site!

We all know about the power and importance of social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, and Flickr. But have you ever thought that there ought to be a social networking site for...(fill in the blank)? Well, now you can make it happen. Cruise on over to ning.com and create your own social networking site and then start inviting your friends to hang out. Creating a social site on Ning is free, or for a small monthly fee you can determine what, if any, advertising will appear on your site. If you pay the fee you also get to use your own domain name. The three site templates are for a video sharing site (ala Youtube), a phot sharing site (ala Flickr or Webshots), and a social networking site (ala MySpace).

Here's a link to an eight-minute interview with Ning founder Gina Bianchini.

For more information on how to set up a Ning social networking site, check out Robin Good's blog.