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Category Archives: Beta release

Making conversations Viral

Hello Kwippers,
Hope everyone’s back in action after the weekend break, we are back as well.
In today’s deployment we’ve released another cool feature that will take conversations to the next level.
We’ve released the “Invite people to join a conversation” feature.
Suppose you have a question that you want to ask to your kwippy network or say discuss […]

Its all about Friends.

Friends were here long before we started subscribing/following people and had fans/followers. While its great to have lots of followers and following lots of people, nothing quite matches the feeling of having friends both online and offline, people whom we know, trust and those who do the same.
Yes, friends are the latest addition to kwippy’s […]

some more blogposts covering kwippy’s beta

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smstextnews: checking out kwippy i am really enjoying it
opengiga: kwippy another one social microblogging platform
possible248: A look at kwippy
chasy: kwippy a biased review
more blogposts covering kwippy’s beta here and here

The more the merrier, twitter invite feature and more

Hello Kwippers !!!
Hope you all are having a nice weekend.
In yesterday’s deployment we’ve release the much awaited/asked for “twitter-invite” feature, what this means is that now you can invite your friends from twitter to join the party @ kwippy. All you need to do is to go to the invite section of your dashboard, enter […]

Kwippy is now Ping.fm enabled

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 […]

Gearing up for launch

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 […]

Comments page, Favoriting notifications & Infinite invites

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 […]

More blogposts covering kwippy’s beta

Hi Guys,
The previous thread here listing blogposts covering kwippy’s beta was getting a bit cluttered so am starting this new post to include all the posts that’ve been written about kwippy’s beta.
1) http://www.inquisitr.com/1480/is-kwippy-yet-another-microblogging-service/
2) http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=139
3) http://www.bwana.org/2008/07/05/kwippy-offers-stability-first/ (Screencast)
4) http://www.winextra.com/2008/07/04/kwippy-and-i-am-not-using-the-twitter-killer-analogy/
5) http://wwwhatsnew.com/2008/07/07/kwippy-red-social-basada-en-tus-contactos-de-gtalk-yahoo/
6) http://websideventures.com/2008/07/08/kwippy-micro-blogging-instant-messenger/
7) http://jasdeepsingh.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/attention-guys-kwippy-here/

Repetition fix for status message kwips released

Hi Folks,
In yesterday’s late night deployment which came in after a long time
(compared to other deployments) we’ve released a fix for the
“repetition issue of kwips via IM status messages”. What it effectively means
is that now you won’t be seeing multiple kwips for the same IM status message.
However this doesn’t mean that we are not storing […]

Transitioning from staging.

Hi All,
This post comes out as an announcement that we’ve officially shifted kwippy from its temporary abode at http://staging.kwippy.com to the permanent address http://www.kwippy.com
What it means ?
a) The URL scheme changes and “staging” gets replaced by “www” in all the URL’s.
b) All accounts on http://staging.kwippy.com get shifted to their corresponding accounts on http://www.kwippy.com
Also, to help […]