Digital Product Placement (incl. Twitter) in David Guetta’s new video

As a keen YouTube and dance music fan I was watching David Guetta & Chris Willis ft Fergie & LMFAO – Gettin’ Over You music video and was almost surprised to see how three products i.e. Samsung Wave (iPhone competitor), Twitter and EverestPoker.com were embedded in the video, watch the video below. Impressive how the product [...]

Email, Super-hero tool, underrated to build Mobile/Web Apps!

The email was invented in the 1970s and till date it is one of the most commonly used tool on the Internet. 92% of people read or send emails on the Internet, followed closely by using a search engine (89%) source. Email has the advantage of being platform independent i.e. you can send an email [...]

(Presentation) SMEs Grow your business using Social Networks [kwiqq]

I recently prepared this presentation for SMEs looking to grow their businesses though social networks. The presentation looks at the growth of social networking technology, social tools SMEs should use, features to include in social networks and a fun task on LinkedIn to get your hands dirty. Grow your business using Social Networks: Raj Anand [...]

You ready for iPhone 3.0? [kwiqq]

This phone looks yummy! Click to enlarge image

8 chat APIs for Social Networks [kwiqq]

Image via Wikipedia I’m currently on a mission to create a single resource for list of APIs for developers to integrate into their website. I’m releasing them in batches, this post is dedicated to integrate chat into your social network. Our favourite so far is Imified API. Instant Messenger / Voice Chat Facebook Chat API [...]

Social networks move from OpenId to Facebook Connect? [kwiqq]

As a social networking provider our job has always been to deliver what is required. We are a major supporter of OpenID and will remain till it makes sense for our customers. We have developed several sites supporting openID including East Hampshire and GazetMe (video below): Although we like the industry feel that times are [...]

Cloud Hosting for social networks [kwiqq]

There is a lot of  talk about ‘The Cloud’.  The word cloud refers to the ability to host things remotely with more or less infinite data hosting resource, without you worrying where its physically hosted. Cloud Hosting then becomes a pay as you go solution for hosting data. A recent survey of UK and US [...]

List of APIs for your Social Networks [kwiqq]

Updated (18/02/2009) the Instant Messenger / Voice Chat We believe 2009 is the year of the APIs (Application Programming Interface). Whether it is to login using OpenID, Facebook Connect or just to easily uploading videos to YouTube. The obvious advantages are: lower the barrier to entry for niche social network, quickly build content (on your [...]

Economic Recession…? Well Kwiqq is hiring ! [kwiqq]

Image via Wikipedia At Kwiqq we are always bucking the trend. Whilst many organisations are firing people left, right and centre, we are hiring. We are currently looking for a junior / graduate developer (Full Time). Specifics: Responsibilities & key outputs •    To work on Kwiqq client projects and Kwiqq product as directed. •    To [...]

Twitter tools to measure(and score) engagement [kwiqq]

On Twitter like several other online mediums, success matrix is not merely about page impressions but how engaging your Tweets really are. Traditionally measuring success of blog posts, article in journals or far worse, print media has been tricky. A lot of assumptions have been made, generally more traffic = more engagement. Although with Twitter [...]