Mahalo all Social Networks in your Tab [kwiqq]

Mahalo is a Human-powered search engine or a social search engine. It has developed some new features (Mahalo Social) which will help users to keep in touch with your social profiles on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Pownce, StumbleUpon, Digg and your blog. Blogged with Flock Tags: Mahalo, Social Network, Search Engine

Add Facebook Apps in iFrame ?? (Non Geek Version) [kwiqq]

So Facebook recently (25th Jan 2008) allowed its application developers to include apps to their website. What does that mean ? I’ll try and explain this using a simple example. I once built a light weight facebook application called 2wentysbook. Now I can add that to my Facebook profile or my website Using Facebook’s latest [...]

No Product no social network [kwiqq]

My inspiration for this blog comes from two sources: Boohoo: Book written by the founder of a company called Boo, which raised $135 million over 18 months and then went bust James Eder: Founder of Studentbeans.com who I met at LSE The reason why I think Boo.com went bust was, lack of financial management and [...]

Another Facebook chat: Imo.im [kwiqq]

Earlier I covered how there are 2 Facebook Chat clients: Social.im and FriendVox. Social.im is a PC (now available on a Mac too) application where users can chat to all their Facebook friends. I came across another Facebook chat called Imo.im. The difference here is that IMO allows text and video chat, further users can [...]

Recession fears hit Tech industries [kwiqq]

You could see a very nervous Jack and me standing at Bedford station, as we could hear nervous brokers speaking loudly on their mobiles. Image from the Guardian I found some interesting articles if you were nervous about the stock market recession fears: Who Cares If Corporate Valuations Are Crazy? Apple plunges as outlook disappoints [...]

MTV UK ends UGC TV: Flux [kwiqq]

Started in September 2006. MTV is now pulling the plug on its User Generated Channel Flux, 1st Feb 2008 onwards. Flux community controls what goes on MTV. The more views a user gets, the more chances to be seen on TV. So people are encouraged to upload stuff which would interests others. I’m still not [...]

Sun buys MySql for $1bn [kwiqq]

In Oct last year I wrote how MySql is getting ready for an IPO. Today Cnet reported that Sun Microsystems has bought MySQL, the most popular open source database ,for $1bn. The deal is $800 million in cash and the rest in stock options. Its a little bit of a surprise considering the ties Sun [...]

Paypal adds a donation Application for Facebook [kwiqq]

Paypal has added an application it calls the badge, which allows friends on your facebook profile to pay you cash. Paypal claims that its a great way to raise money (donation) and pay you back. I can see how it can be an awesome application to raise money for charity. Not sure if its as [...]

Happy B’day Kwiqq and Wikipedia [kwiqq]

Today is Kwiqq’s 1st Birthday and Wikipedia‘s 7th Birthday. I’m proud of the team we have, who made this all possible. Thanks for everyone who has supported Kwiqq and been there for the good and the bad times. You can see our achievements and ambitions for 2008. Big things expected this year, keep it Kwiqq [...]

Websites we follow for social networking [kwiqq]

To keep a close eye on social networking I often follow Social Networking/Web 2.0 blogs on the net. Thought I’ll share them with our readers: So firstly I use Netvibes to follow all the RSS feeds from these sites. Simply because its easy to use and see all the stories on a single page to [...]