NING Makes Big Inroads with OpenSocial Support for over 500,000 communities. For every social network created on the Ning Platform, members are able to browse through a branded directory of OpenSocial applications to add to their profile pages with a single click.

At yesterdays launch, each social network on Ning offers over 25 OpenSocial applications from which to choose, including file sharing from Box.net, poll creation from Polldaddy and e-commerce from Shopit.

Google announced this support yesterday on their OpenSocial blog.

I had some additional input from the Sean Lindo, the community manager from box.net : “Box.net is one of the applications Ning users will be able to use on their profile pages, allowing them to post and share all kinds of content stored on Box.net. Our mission is to make it easy for people to access their content wherever they are, on any platform, device and application, ultimately. So, having this kind of partnership with Ning, as well as other companies like Facebook will certainly help in this mission.”

It would appear that ning keeps making great strides and has become one of the unsung social network heros. It is the social network platform you most likely never heard about, that is growing like crazy and is quite powerful and easy for individuals or companies to set up. It is founded by netscape founder and visionary Marc Andreason.

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