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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Kwippy is now Ping.fm enabled

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Awesomeness !!
In a really early morning (6AM IST) deployment we released integration with Ping.fm . This release comes out as a first step towards opening our API which will be going live soon. Ping integration was something many of our early adapters were keen on and therefore just like other features the supply soon followed [...]

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Gearing up for launch

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Hey Guys,
Things are going well in Kwipsville and lots of things took place in the last week or so as we enter the last phase of kwippy’s beta mode.
This post intends to share the developments at our end with you all.
Features released in today’s deployment:
1) Remember me: This would easily be one of the most [...]

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Speed freaks

Friday, July 11, 2008

Over the last couple of days we have been working towards making the application faster. One of the measurement tools that we have used is grabperf (http://grabperf.org). Some major changes have taken place in the backend, like

All anon users(logged out users) get a cached page (which expires in 5 minutes). This is to reduce the [...]

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Comments page, Favoriting notifications & Infinite invites

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Hey Guys,
In two small deployments spread over today and yesterday we’ve rolled out the following.
1) Comments page: As the network grows bigger and time spent on site increases, the number of conversations/discussions one takes part in rises. Thus in an attempt to keep a track on what all discussions a user has taken part in [...]

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Nanoblogging, Microblogging or something else?

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

This post is in response to some people’s queries as to why there isn’t a character limit on posts. I would like to say that inspite of no character limit the average kwip has guess how many characters – 60 odd. The IM status itself from our experience is pithy, and very concise. And most [...]

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