Hey Folks,

We recently setup http://techhui.ning.com to provide a forum for
developers and engineers on the islands. I'm also using it to
experiment with all this new fangled social networking technology :-)
The ning platform gives us a lot of nice features including threaded
discussions, blogging, RSS support, customizable homepages, widget
support, image management, video management, and other social
networking functionality.

Its also an OpenSocial container (google's new API for writing social
networking widgets), and it lets you deploy your own code to add
features. The core platform is written in Java, and the page
rendering is done in PHP. We plan to deploy some custom features
shortly. It should be fun to play around with. Feel free to add
content and invite friends :-)

Aloha,
Dan