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kwippy nominated for TATA NEN’s hottest startup awards

TATA along with NEN have started a competition for India’s hottest startups. TATA is one of the biggest and most respected companies of India and for the uninitiated NEN( National Entrepreneurship Network) is a non-profit organization, and India’s leader in entrepreneurship education. The nominations for the contest are open till 22nd October 08 and 30 [...]

Three Musketeers

Kwippy Team

The Status

Statuses have become omnipresent. Yes, statuses are now a common feature across IM’s and social networks.
Now it’s not just the “away” message. People use status as a mouthpiece, as a format for announcement to show their happiness/sadness and much more.Very often, very creative and at times very informative, much like the swiss knife, they are [...]

Technology behind kwippy and scaling

Today in the world of micro-blogging, problems of twitter have become nearly household news. This has made site developers think about how can they make their site stable and scale with good Quality of service to the user (you , me , everyone). This post is about how we have planned kwippy, the whys and [...]

The power of permalinks

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 [...]