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Up next in our series of tech interviews at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week: Gina Bianchini , the CEO of social networking service Ning . Ning has never had the press attention of Facebook and Twitter

Former Ning exec Jay Parikh left that company in October 2009 after two years as SVP Engineering and Operations.

GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration has steadily gained an impressive amount of users and added compelling features to its application. The social network platform has just hit 2 million users, adding another million members in just 6 months. And GROU.PS has amped up its offering for publishers by launching Elastic Modules, which gives publishers the ability to change the way the data is displayed to their visitors.