The grou.ps is branding on every site even it is the newly created site or the site using the space less than 3 GB .it’s annoying ….

You are mistaken .It’s branding only on the sites which exists the 3 GB space and 30 GB band width .

1)Any user created an account in my site can look all other sites which he registered with grou.ps sites .There he can find that i have created my site with a third party web service provider .So please make every site to be appeared independent from grou.ps .then it can be a white labelling service.

2)The mails sent from my site all having the address “noreply@grou.ps” yet now. And if a user is using gmail he can clearly view that “mailed by grou.ps”I need to use my own mail id here.

3)the “My account panel ” is having the news from the grou.ps admin and having the link “feed back ” and the news which destroys the idea of whitelabelling.My users get an idea that it is based on grou.ps

4)Every site created by grou.ps should provide the independent account for the users .so that they can register on evbery site created with grou.ps .(I sent the list of some social network services)

5)the “Add this ” widget is having the logo linking the grou.ps .It leads my users to grou.ps and it destroys the idea of white label.

I have been procrastinating writing about the new round of funding for Grou.ps, primarily since it had already been widely reported. Then, Fred’s post from this morning prompted me to finally post about both the round, and the other critical…

if you have “anything” to compete with da killa you let me know. idiot.

yes Dave, there domain is a death sentence.

How does Wordpress make money ? Perhaps we take that clue from Wordpress. Wordpress.com gives away source code, doesn’t put app but yet still maintain its business. It is building a brand which can leverage on partnership etc… and the strong brand attract investment.

Maybe grou.ps is adopting the same strategy.

A few big names already use the site as their home and customize it as such to make it look as if it is a stand alone site (complete with full URL) but its rear end is NING. The site owner can choose the level of interaction she wants with already establish NING community members. The interaction potential is very high and it has been something I have been waiting years for (now if someone would just specialize and do this just for bloggers, that would be great… so far no major blog hosting/community site goes to this level of interaction).

Heck, even I’m thinking of building a website(s) on their platform and hope to even create a few applications using their API’s (if they allow that… not sure they do yet)

I wonder if NING see the potential to use their app for creating knowledge systems for businesses and municipalities? If they do, i think the skies the limit for them (but keep in mind that the sky has its limits lol)

Anyway, if Grou.ps can do all the same things, them maybe we have a competition going, but I don’t see it yet.