Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:08 AM EST
Return of the programmable Web?
There was a lot of buzz surrounding Marc Andreesen's social application builder Ning when it launched at the 2nd Web 2.0 conference in '05. Since then social apps have drawn some attention, most notable Yahoo's beta Pipes service, which lets non-programmers mashup two or more Web services. And today, Ning relaunches to praise from Silicon Valley pundits. But are there enough consumers out there who want to roll their own Web apps?
