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March 5, 2011
Ning - Social Network or Pyramid Scam?
I've been shooting graffiti in San Francisco on and for nearly 20 years. Some of the art is painted as part of a legitimate mural sanctioned by the city, but of course much of it is quasi-legal, at best. The advent of email addresses was a change I witnessed over the years, with artists painting email addresses, website URL's, etc. This week, I saw some art and tried to google the art, but with limited success. There seemed to be some social network sites based on something called "NING", which I was not familiar with.
So, I just googled "ning graffiti". And I found a few websites (http://philippinegraffiti.ning.com/, http://graffitikingz.ning.com/, and http://urbanartgraffiti.ning.com/, but I couldn't access them. "This Ning Nettwork is currently unavailable". Apparently these websites were put up, then then shut down for some reason. Even the cached versions in Google wouldn't allow me to see the archived versions, instead displaying an obtrusive splash screen, effectively blocking the content.
Even access via the Wayback Machine is blocked. Insanity.
http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/03/ning-exposed-tech-company-ning-scams-its-clients/
Posted by Rob Kiser on March 5, 2011 at 7:24 PM
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