What is kwippy? – a micro/nanoblogging webapp + IM status logger + social network
Why another microblogging app when there are already plenty out there? – There is twitter, pownce, jaiku, and 10 other similar ones. Though all of these promote small posts, each has a different kind of social network.
On twitter you mostly meet strangers. By strangers I mean people you don’t know in the real world. It’s like barcamp, or a conference where you go partly to network. You meet fellow bloggers, marketeers, and people from your field. Yes friendships may grow among them, but mostly there are subtle motives behind the tweets. From promoting your blog, selling your product, showing your expertise, etc.
Pownce is geared more towards file sharing, sharing media (youtube, mp3s) etc. And it has an AIR instant messenger kind of software which makes it a little closer to an Instant Messenger.
In kwippy, the whole focus is on the Instant Messenger. The friends list on the instant messenger is the most intimate friends list you can find, of all social networks. It gives the people in the list immediate access to your attention. People share their joys (i got a raise), sorrows (i flunked my english papers), their favorite links, and thousand other things through their status messages. And all these people also have a list of their closest friends on their list. And like in the real world when a real friend introduces you to another person, the chances that you hit it off are greater. There’s this trust thing which is automatic.
So there – kwippy has a social network which gets real friends, friends you could meet. And it stores all your status messages, which become your emotional timeline.
We have been working on it since some time, and now it is in testing. If you would like to check it out, and give your invaluable suggestions for improvement, either go to kwippy.com, or comment here.
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The IM feature seems to be the great idea of this microblog.
Integration of microblogging, IM and mail is indeed the way of the future…
I’m waiting for the introduction of the next wave of upgrades.
Thanks for the beta invite, BTW
How do you transfer all your gtalk friends to kwippy? How would I import my gtalk along with kwippy?
I would like to be a beta tester please.
Drop me an invite and I would love to give it a go as it sounds interesting.
Can I get an invitation please? Thanks.
I have been using Kwippy for 4-5 days now and I must say that these guys have done a nice job. It works nicely, it integrates with ping.fm and also picks up google/yahoo status messages.
1. The only thing missing is SMS updates. Rest work nicely.
2. I hope they also make a badge of recent kwips
Wanted to share that I just noticed a surge of non-tech non-business related friends jumping onto Twitter. People who until recently were skeptical and uninterested realized that they can get useful tidbits from friends and similar people. Hope you guys can outpace them on interesting tidbits, because as well all know Twitter (and microblogging) is mostly noise… it’s the nature of the beast.
I like the combination of IM, Status and Sociality. Good job guys. Hope this overtakes Twitter / Pownce and the other 10-20 simialrs very quickly
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