Please digg me…I’ll send you a lollipop [kwiqq]

If you don’t know Digg then check the website out now!! Over the last few days I have become a biggest fan of Digg not sure why ?? And now I want to be on the first page of Digg. If I end up on the first page of digg, I’ll send a lollipop to [...]

LinkedIn new group features [kwiqq]

Last night LinkedIn launched its new community features. Definitely better than its earlier buggy group features. In the latest release users can start a discussion. I started one today: One of the reasons why I enjoy LinkedIn is because its signal to noise ratio is high. Would the new groups feature change that ? Join [...]

PlayNTrade.com: Kwiqq’s latest semi-social website [kwiqq]

Social websites have now become a necessity for the corporate market. Some good example of this are pepsi social network, BBC, Sky News (semi-social) etc. Its important that sites don’t loose their ethos in an aim to be too social. This is where the idea of semi-social sites was born. Semi-social sites are not full [...]

iPhone Blogging using WordPress [kwiqq]

I think of most of my blogging topics/themes/silly videos whilst I’m traveling. WordPress just made it easier for me to convert these themes to blogs when I’m traveling using my iPhone.   Thanks to the WordPress Blog Application. Simple, robust and instant solution to blog on self-hosted WP blogs. Although you will require to upgrade [...]

Car Social Networks [kwiqq]

Whilst you have social networks for several niches travel, startups, Business (French)… Why shouldn’t there be a social network for car lovers In this section I will try list 5 of my favorite Car Social Networks in no particular order. CarSpace: Sounds and looks like MySpace Version 1.0 . Carspace piggy backs on the success [...]

Kwiqq’s new office layout [kwiqq]

Part of tomorrow (Wednesday) is reserved to receive our new tables from Ikea. Dan drew a sketch for how the office would look like once all the furniture is assembled: Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: Kwiqq, Office, Tables, Ikea addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frajanand.biz%2F2008%2F08%2F19%2Fkwiqqs-new-office-layout%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Kwiqq%26%238217%3Bs+new+office+layout+%5Bkwiqq%5D’; addthis_pub = ”;

Judging Shell STEP – second time [kwiqq]

Last year was the first time I judged the Shell STEP project which allows university students in their penultimate year to work on a real project with a local companies. I did the Shell STEP scheme twice (with European Union and Dazdaq) myself and can’t stress how much it helped me with my career. Really [...]

Video: Building home-made iPhone: Goes Wrong ! [kwiqq]

Another day another silly video ! Building home-made iPhone: Goes Wrong ! from Raj Anand on Vimeo. The video indicates the need of a real iPhone. I have a Vodafone contract which doesn’t expire for another 6 months. Frustrated with the situation I thought I’ll make my own iPhone using my Sony Ericsson phone. Although [...]

CapitalOne credit card goes Flickr [kwiqq]

Some of the things you can do nowadays with Flickr are absolutely outstanding. Here is one. You can now customise your CapitalOne credit card with  your pictures on Flickr. So I thought I’ll give it a shot You can select from the existing templates or suggest your own: I took a picture and added as [...]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Bye bye Symfony.. Hello Zend [kwiqq]

To set the scene, there are three major PHP based open source frameworks available out there: Symfony, Zend and CakePHP. All very good frameworks and more or less the norm for building successful social networks, although there are some exceptions to the rule. The decision has been taken to STOP using Symfony for future projects. [...]