Hope you are doing good. Just wanted to share with you a cool remix video of Kwippy Hat made by our user lockerhaxor

Thanks lockerhaxor for sharing the videos

In the United States there are two traditions on this day,eating turkey and watching football (that’s American football mind you the one that’s kinda like rugby with armour..)on the television.

Rest assured that all of us at Kwippy will continue hard at work providing you the best service possible.
Why we recently upgraded the way that  conversation comments arrive in your email box (maybe you noticed ?) but more on that in a later blog.

So have a great and Happy Thanksgiving!

Team Kwippy.com

You will get a notification after the first comment and then no additional notifications until you visit the kwip,  once you visit(or comment) on that thread again a singe email notification is sent on the next unread comment and so on.

These change is applicable to both notification emails and instant messages

We are sure you’ll love these change as it will reduce your task of managing notification emails in your inbox.

Let us know if you have suggestions/feedback about these change.

Happy Kwipping !!

Got a question for us or a bug to report ? Head to our page on GetSatisfaction and create a topic. We’ll pick it up from there and do the needful. Here’s the link to our page http://getsatisfaction.com/kwippy

Hope to see some action there soon

• Use memcached properly : The trick in getting speed is to cache all logged out pages and heavy caching of the user objects when logged in. For example we recently got our sessions into the memcached cloud to see a good speed jump.
• Database structuring : Django does a lot of joins and magic in it ORM, and has a built in caching layer. But the problem is that we developers structure our tables to our percieved needs … not necessarily for the way the ORM works. One way is to start writing custom SQL inside your views, another is to understand the ORM better. Your choice :).
• Database connection pooling : It is pretty shocking to realize that Django does not do connection pooling, I have used DButils connection pooling for our needs. But IMHO it should be a default thing inside the application platform.
• SMTP is slow : Imagine the user filling up a form which is emailed to you, and your SMTP is down. There is a good chance that you will lose that data and the application will give a 500 :). To alleviate that i have created a command queue where emails are not sent within the application and a daemon is doing all the dirty work. I will put it all out in the market :), so that you guys can make you site that much more faster/robust.
• Pagination : To be honest, i still do not like django pagination. The problem was that it will getting all the objects and as the database is on a separate machine a lot of data was being transferred over the network. So i created my custom pagination which on the average is much faster than ObjectPaginator or Paginator.

Well there are all i could think of right now. Obviously there are some other optimizations that i keep doing …. and will keep writing about. Till the next time, feel free to contact me about these optimizations at dipankar@kwippy.com

For details read the post i wrote here

Let us know how you find this mashup and reply with the keywords you want to track

If you like kwippy and what we are doing please nominate us for Mashable Open Web Awards. All you need to do is to just enter your email id in the form below and click the link in confirmation email that you’ll get. Come on guys show your support. Also, just drop a comment below if you vote.

If you are like us, you too probably would be following your favorite blogs and sites via some RSS reader or the other, and   tend to invariably miss various updates or get them a bit too late. Ever thought it would be nice to get latest updates about your favorite blogs like TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb served hot to you, as they happen ? If yes, you are in for a treat

We’ve just released the RSS and Atom integration for kwippy.

What it means ?
It means that now you can follow your favorite blogs and websites on your IM(gtalk for now). So every time there’s a new post on the blog you are following, you’ll be notified on your gtalk.

How it works?
To get IM notifications about blog and website updates, you need to follow the blog/website and ensure that you’ve turned on the IM notification option for that blog(under the change settings link on their kwips page)

How to integrate RSS and Atom feeds ?
We have integrated these blogs to start with
1) TechCrunch: http://www.kwippy.com/TechCrunchRSS
2) ReadWriteWeb: http://www.kwippy.com/ReadWriteWebRSS
3) GigaOm: http://www.kwippy.com/GigaOmRSS
4) Makeuseof: http://www.kwippy.com/MakeuseofRSS/

New Additions
5) Scobleizer: http://www.kwippy.com/scobleizerRSS/
6) 37Signals: http://www.kwippy.com/37signalsRSS
7) Dilbert: http://www.kwippy.com/DailyDilbertRSS

If you want to add more blogs that you would like to follow. Please let us know.

Play with and let us know what you think of it.

Happy Kwipping !!

We would be having a small downtime for about half an hour shortly for maintenance and upgradation of our servers.
So if you don’t find site in order in the next hour, you know why.

Will update you once we are done with the maintenance and things are back to normal.

Having meaningful conversations on kwippy is extremely easy. So the next time you have a question/doubt, need to seek opinion/advice or something that you want to talk about, just kwip about it and start by inviting your friends and followers in to the conversation and let the magic begin.

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve noticed conversations of sorts going on kwippy which have been simply amazing in terms of the community involvement and the way in which people have shared their perspectives. What’s also is the wide range of topics/issues that the conversations have covered. Checkout some of the popular conversations which exemplify great community.

1) I feel like a good debate - abortion, yay or nay? - xhan
2) What would you do if you never have to care about money?- mohit
3) No,really.I should be sleeping right now instead of drinking Diet Pepsi and tapping away on teh internets- markdavidson
4) What do you get when you let outsourcing go unchecked and inflation go on forever? An economy w/no jobs, no products and no buying power. - thepete
5) what is your opinion on the “no smoking allowed” thingy?- robin
6) I am still trying out Google Chrome. It is fast but lack of features is frustrating. - rob
7) asks would you click on someone’s Adsense (or equivalent) if you like their posts or blog? I think Seth Godin advocates that… Hmmh! - drdollars
8.) What OS are you using and why? Are you using your OS because it is the only OS that provides you with the apps that you need?- robin
9) I want to buy a car before heading back to Mexico. Do I buy the car I want  knowing the risks?- brilliantjeni
10) books or movies or music ?- mayank