DISA Lands Ning CEO
By
Bob Brewin
Some folks may look at the Defense Information Systems Agency as the antithesis of techno-cool. But, it sure has latched on to a speaker for its <a href=http://www.disa.mil/conferences/2009/index.html>Customer Care conference</a> in April who embodies cutting edge social networking technology:
Some folks may look at the Defense Information Systems Agency as the antithesis of techno-cool.
But, it sure has latched on to a speaker for its Customer Care conference in April who embodies cutting edge social networking technology: Gina Bianchini, chief executive officer of Ning, a company she co-founded in 2004 with Marc Andreessen, developer of the original "Mosaic" Web browser.
Bianchini says in a statement on the company's Web site that she and Andreessen started Ning (which means "peace" in Chinese) to give everyone the opportunity to create a social network. Today Ning powers the largest number of social networks on the Internet.
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