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White label social networking provider Ning has been offline for the last hour or more. Founder Marc Andreessen noted in March that Ning had over 200,000 networks. For the last hour, all of them have been down. Blodget pegs the company’s valuation at over $560,000. Is unplanned downtime acceptable for a company thats in the half-a-billion club? 

As of 7:05 Eastern, Ning shows an all clear message and the social networks are up-and-running. No update has been provided yet as to what happened. I have an email into Ning and will report back once I get an update on the reason for the downtime.

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NY-based neighborhood info and real estate aggregator StreetEasy has announced the launch of their northern New Jersey site today. The initial counties in New Jersey include: Hudson, Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic Counties. StreetEasy North Jersey includes sale listings, open houses, a new development directory, and recorded sales.

As I went through the absolutely horrible process of locating an apartment in NYC over the past couple of months, I used StreetEasy a bit. I found that while the site had a lot of information and a good bit of Web 2.0-style features, the search was just too slow. I commented about this in another CN post and within an hour, the lead developer from StreetEasy contacted me to discuss. We had about an hour-long conversation and my guess is that the Google Maps integration is what makes the site so slow. I suggested that the map be user-selectable as I don’t care much about the map as I do about the speed of the search. He took that plus my other suggestions and was very open.

There’s an absolute gap here in NYC and I will have more on this topic later this week. It won’t be pretty, I can assure you of that. 

Check out my behind-the-scenes interview with the StreetEasy team at their midtown office.

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