The non-developer in me (and let's face it, that's all of me) is very excited about this in a kind of geeky way. Ning is
a free online service for building and using social applications.
What are social applications? things like del.icio.us, flickr, Citeulike and, erm, Hot or not. You don't need to know php or anything as you can clone applications already there. You just need to sign up as a developer and unfortately at the moment they are keeping a tight rein on the number of developers. I have put myself on the list and if I get lucky I'll let you know. Anyone else already got lucky? Let me know.
UPDATE: I now have a developer account. Wahay.
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