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Let there be white!

Thursday, August 14, 2008

And let there be more whitespace. Our users have pointed this time and again that our kwips page looked cluttered. The second feedback was the high contrast between the black and white which led to the eyes not adjusting properly. More than aesthetics it was a usability problem.
Also it was difficult to know who was […]

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The Ethics of Virality

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Being viral is one of the most crucial aspects of a site and its “Viral Coefficient” amongst other things will decide whether the site grows exponentially and becomes a success or is lost in oblivion. Metrics like “Viral Coefficient” try to measure, for each new user how many friends he/she brings along to the site […]

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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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The power of permalinks

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

If you’ve been using kwippy for a while and have replied to a kwip chances are you must have had a look at the intriguing URL of the particular kwip’s page which carries the kwip along with all its replies.
Does this look familiar http://www.kwippy.com/mkarim/kwips/2008/jun/13/080921/ ? If yes did you notice something different with it ?
We’ve […]

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