Today,
we are launching Ning Creators, a new public Network Creator Network designed to help you get the most out of your Ning Network. While the Ning Developer Network will continue to be the place for developers to ask questions about the OpenSocial APIs, Javascript and CSS that power your Ning Network, Ning Creators offers articles, blog posts, screencasts, updates on new releases and a staffed forum.
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Added by Ernie H. on November 9, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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A new iteration of the Ning Apps documentation has been uploaded, with the following items:
- Added screenshots of Tab Manager integration, Profile View "My Apps" screens.
- There is no longer a need to create a separate development sandbox - just create a Ning Network. All references to developer sandboxes have been removed.
- Added additional notes on Ning App caching.
- Added notes on how to remove a Ning App.
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Added by Ernie H. on October 22, 2009 at 3:33pm —
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Hi everyone!
We're excited to let you know that we've rolled out a public-facing version of the Ning Apps directory, complete with permalinks that can be used to promote Ning Apps directly to prospective Network Creators. It's available here:
http://developer.ning.com/ningapps
Here's how to grab a permalink:
1) Click on the logo of a Ning App
in the public directory to visit your…
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Added by Ernie H. on October 21, 2009 at 5:28pm —
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Since launching Ning Apps last month, we've received a lot of great feedback from our Network Creators about additional apps they'd love to see on their Ning networks. We thought we'd post a short suggestion list to help inspire you, our awesome developers.
Reviews - Enable members of a Ning Network to share reviews of restaurants, local businesses and services, electronics, movies, music and more. Or create an app that lets the Network Creator create their own custom reviews application.
Favo…
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Added by Ernie H. on October 7, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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As our Senior Vice President of Business Operations Jason Rosenthal has announced, we have made Ning Apps available for all social networks on Ning. You can
read more information about Ning Apps on the Ning Blog, or
find some documentation how to build your own Ning Apps here at the Ning Developer Network.
You can also use ou…
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Added by Ernie H. on September 10, 2009 at 8:00am —
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We here at Ning thought it would be useful to let you know a bit about the policy and usability processes we have in place to review your Apps. These processes are in place to ensure you are putting your best foot forward to in providing a quality product for all of our 1.4 million Ning Networks and 30 million members.
What happens after you submit your App? You may find the following article useful:
http://de…
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Added by Ernie H. on September 7, 2009 at 11:59am —
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A new iteration of the Ning Apps documentation has been uploaded, with the following items:
- Sandboxes must now be created by contacting the Ning Help Center.
- Removed ning.main view, UserPrefs and EnumValues sections.
- Added a section explaining that Network Creators and Admins can display or hide all profile views to members.
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Added by Ernie H. on August 17, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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(Note: This is a re-post of Nick's post on the Ning Blog. Please direct any particular feedback there so we can manage responses more efficiently. Thanks!)
We are excited to announce that Ning Apps will debut in early September!
When you create a Ning Network around a specific interest or passion, you need a diverse feature set that allows you to be creative and customize the experienc…
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Added by Ernie H. on August 11, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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Having a Ning App write to the activity stream (using opensocial.requestCreateActivity) is the most effective way to drive visibility and traffic to your application directly from the main page of a social network.
We can see opensocial.requestCreateActivity in action by using the OpenSocial Dev App tool; you can install the OpenSocial Dev App tool on a Ning Apps sandbox by going to http://NETWORKNAME.ning.com/opensocial/ningapps/addByUrl to add an XML file manually (replacing NETWORKNAME with…
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Added by Ernie H. on August 10, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Hi everyone,
After a private beta period and some extensive performance and feature analysis, we're currently planning to make Ning Apps available to all social networks on Ning in mid-August. We appreciate your patience and flexibility as we finalize the last of our product testing and development, and will follow-up as the date gets closer with more specific information.
Thanks,
- Ernie
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Added by Ernie H. on July 14, 2009 at 12:07pm —
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A new iteration of the Ning Apps documentation has been uploaded, with the following items:
- Added section "What Ning Apps Can and Can Not Do"
- Further clarified the section "UserPrefs and EnumValues" -- UserPrefs are unavailable in the Profile or Canvas View.
- All Ning Apps titles should have a maximum length of 24 characters.
- Fixed a broken PNG file related to the subnavigation.
- Added
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Added by Ernie H. on July 7, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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A new iteration of the Ning Apps documentation has been uploaded, with the following items:
- Added section "Getting Ning Container-Specific information with ning.core.AppStatus"
- Changed XML sample for section "Navigating Between Views and Passing Parameter Information"
- Added content for the section "UserPrefs and EnumValues"
- author_email in the ModulePrefs header is now accessible to Network Creators in the Ning Apps Directory; the "What you MUST do" section h
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Added by Ernie H. on May 26, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Hi everyone!
As you may have heard, beta testing for Ning Apps are currently underway for a select group of social networks.
Ning Apps is similar to Profile Apps in that they both use OpenSocial APIs to get data about members of a social network, but Ning Apps contain additional views to show functionality at the main page of a social network, along with additional canvas and profile page views. As Ning is unique to other social network c…
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Added by Ernie H. on May 6, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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Hi everyone,
A number of people have asked about when OpenSocial Applications will be available from the main page of social networks instead of only being served off of profile pages.
We are currently going through a private beta period, but soon will make Network Applications available for all Network Creators. I'll follow-up here when there's more information to announce. Stay tuned!
Thanks,
- Ernie
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Added by Ernie H. on January 26, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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To add an Application, click on the "Add Applications" link that appears in the left column of your profile page, beneath your photo:
This will take you to the Application Directory, where you can browse all Applications or view them by category. When you find an Application that you'd like to add, click on the "Add to My Page" button and then confirm by clicking "…
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Added by Ernie H. on December 15, 2008 at 6:00pm —
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A couple of weeks ago, OpenSocial had its
first birthday party in San Francisco, and Ning was one of a couple of social network containers that was fortunate enough to attend.
Here is a presentation given by Jay Parikh (VP of Engineering) on how Ning is using OpenSocial. Of possible interest to developers is our future implementation of Network-wide OpenSocial Applications, to be launched some ti…
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Added by Ernie H. on December 2, 2008 at 6:00pm —
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Hi everyone!
Here are two more two additional tools that OpenSocial developers may find useful:
1. As
previously mentioned on the OpenSocial API Blog,
there is now a wiki for all things OpenSocial. The wiki contains tutorials, API references and information about other social network containers. While still in its infancy stage, the wi…
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Added by Ernie H. on November 4, 2008 at 7:00pm —
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Hi everyone!
So, the good news is that there have been a lot of applications to review for the Ning Application Directory. More Applications mean more variety, and that's a good thing.
But the bad news is this: because a lot of OpenSocial Application developers haven't taken the time to look at the Best Practices page on the Ning OpenSocial Documentation, we've had to reject a lot of the applications right off the bat, or at least it's been a lengthy process.
The biggest guidelines to follow…
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Added by Ernie H. on October 20, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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Hi everyone!
As part of the
10/17 platform release, we are upgrading all social networks to a new configuration that uses
PHP 5.2.6, an upgrade from PHP 5.2.3. This will occur at a gradual basis, with groups of networks upgraded at once. As this is a minor release it's very unlikely that it will impact any of the software that you've developed.
Let me kn…
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Added by Ernie H. on October 16, 2008 at 1:43pm —
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Something look different? Yeah, we think so too. Hopefully, in a good way :)
As you've figured out by now, we just launched a redesigned Ning Developer Network to emphasize the amazing stuff you can do on Ning with OpenSocial 0.7 APIs.
From our new Ning Developer Network, you also now have the opportunity to submit your OpenSocial applications to the Ning Application Directory, where your applications will be showcased to millions of members across the over 500,000 social networks on Ning.
No…
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Added by Ernie H. on October 8, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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