N3twork launches a new mobile social network based on your interests, not your friends

Finding the things you want on the Internet on a regular basis can be hard. As you search for things you are interested in or try to remember a web page that you visited before, you may wind up with 20 web pages open and no path to get back to them easily.

N3twork lets you create your own profile
N3twork lets you create your own profile

That’s why Neil Young and Bob Stevenson, the cofounders of mobile gaming firm Ngmoco, created N3twork, (pronounced “network”) a startup with a new social network based on your interests. The app is launching today.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.