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Dear fans of “Spirofrog” in this blog every now and then we feature successful entreprenuers – globally.

Today it´s Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter.

He is an active member of the blogging community.

Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape. Mosaic, later renamed ‘Netscape Navigator,’ was the first popular web browser and was the the base of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.

Andreessen also served as chairman of Opsware and Chief Technology Officer of AOL after AOL acquired Netscape.

http://blog.pmarca.com/

http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2472308/32508154

Some details about NING !

Ning provides an online platform for creating individual social networks on particular topics of a user’s choosing.

Founders Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini created the company (formerly known as 24 Hour Laundry / 24H Laundry) in October 2004 and released the latest incarnation “Ning 2.0” in February 2007. As of 8/24/08, there have been over 420,000 social networks created.

Ning offers users the ability to create their very own social network with features that are customizable to meet unique specifications.

If users have the time and the programming talent, they can build features on their own using Ning APIs.

Ning social networks run on a programmable platform conforming to a common acceptable usage criteria (since it is a shared platform.)

For the less technologically sophisticated, basic users can set up a social network with point and click setup options.

Their business model is based on delivering Google ads (their own ad platform in development) as well as selling add-on services to larger, individual social networks (such as hiding Ning ads and serving up their own Google AdSense or hiding ads all together.)

View a chart that TechCrunch compiled in Summer 2007 that compares this company’s social networking product to others.

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