Predicting the future (2010) for businesses with twitter + GPS [kwiqq]

As twitter is gaining popularity amongst non-geeks the possibilities for such services are opening up for businesses. In this essay I will try and outline the possibilities of twitter and location based services like twinkle (Twitter meets GPS) for businesses as soon as 2010. For this to happen I’m assuming iPhone and other GPS enabled [...]

Build PHP custom dynamic badges for social websites like Bebo, MySpace, Blogs [kwiqq]

It use to be a trend for all social websites to have badges like linkedIn, delicious etc. To add these badges users cut/paste the code in your blog, MySpace etc We thought it would be great to build a dynamic badge which changes the user avatar and status as its modified on the site. Example: [...]

Chrome from a social networking/website perspective [kwiqq]

The blogosphere is now spammed with articles about Google’s new browser, Chrome. Even BBC radio Three is talking about it. This clearly shows: 1) How browser is slowly transforming into the next operating system. Hence its becoming more and more important to users 2) How the browser market which is fairly saturated can still be [...]

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. [...]

Zemanta getting there [kwiqq]

So I met Andraz Tori after the Seedcamp event at OpenCoffee London. Very enthusiastic individual and passionate about developing Zemanta which facilitates blogging by suggesting links, tags, articles and pictures It is a cleaver idea and I can certainly see the use it has for frequent bloggers. So I thought I’ll put it to the [...]

Should I build customised social network or use template driven ? [kwiqq]

This question gets asked almost every other day . Best answered as soon as possible. Customised Social Network: Social networks built on the request from a client Template Driven Social Network: Social Networks built using tools available online Ok so right at the start of developing Kwiqq the problem we wanted to solve is: “How [...]

Wireframes for a social networks [kwiqq]

If you were to ask any designer / creative team the process for designing websites, developing wireframes would be fairly high on the list. If I were to define wireframes I would say they are visual representation of a site which are interactive but not the final product Wikipedia definition:“Wireframes are a basic visual guide [...]

Kwiqq Open: Mobile Module [kwiqq]

Kwiqq Blog has been a little quiet for the last few days. Thought it would make sense to update as to what we have been upto. Apart from working on some really creative bits for our clients we have been working on Kwiqq Open (Coming Soon). What is Kwiqq Open? Kwiqq Open is a set [...]

Ostatic (gigaOm) Resource For Open Source Community [kwiqq]

GigaOm one of the respected Web/technology blogs has just released an online community for open source software. The platform is for open source built on open source (Drupal). There are several open source software (150,000+) already listed in the directory. The site also include s a Google Q&A style section. Some nice facts which came [...]

Why Web Apps are always in Beta ? [kwiqq]

Looking at some popular web applications like Google Mail (GMail), Last.fm, YouTube etc its easy to see now, why they have millions and millions of users. There some apps which have continuously being developed or in beta. Wikipedia: beta version is the first version released outside the organization or community that develops the software, for [...]

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