The kwippy integration basically has a small signup application that is independent of the main app, there is a signup page which integrates and then the rest is in the parent application. I should be posting a picture here, but too lazy he he ….

http://fireeagle.kwippy.com

So i started this service for fun, built it in a record 3 hours he he … will open-source the code by the weekend. The service is dead simple  … you get a short url and you can view stats about how many click / last 5 IPs who clicked.

example:

http://www.kwippy.com/rane/kwips/2008/aug/05/121113/ has the short url  http://snipper.in/y

you can view the stats of the link at http://snipper.in/y/stats

API:

It has a simple rest based API http://snipper.in/geturl?url=[your url]

example: http://snipper.in/geturl?url=http://www.kwippy.com/dipankar

Well, i will add more features with time … till then njoi snipping

here is the link http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6806564434

We need more people , feel free to invite your friends too  ….

well jokes apart fire it up and see what is your value, blog widget coming soon

http://twitworth.com

Now i think i should start doing some real work. More applications later in the week.

“I AM AN INDIAN, I AM A MUSLIM” - Omar Abdullah

We need more politicians like him, ready to say the right thing. Willing to make a choice for the nation first, then their religion. I can understand all the things we say about Kashmir, the truth is that in pure financial terms nation building is a costly exercise …. splitting into a separate state may look like the best but it will take tremendous amounts of help from its 2 warring neighbors.

I do hope we learn things and not make short-term stupid decisions that hurt our nations future. I don’t understand the nuclear deal properly, (there is so much in the fine print which we *commoners* never get to read) but faith is needed , mistakes will be made …. but its not easy to become a super-power

“sab kuch nahi chalega”

A post about how kwippy works and scaling strategies involved. Feel free to ramble and comment.

I have been the geek-in-residence for Opdrage for quite sometime and its time to talk about it a bit more. Here at Opdrage, we aim to build things that are solid and last … it does not matter what is the focus area, as long as it is a solid capitalist business. This is a very much Y-combinator approach to businesses in my view, Paul Graham would be proud :).

My mentor Kris Nair also the founder of Opdrage is very clear about his approach to it, and I have learned a lot of things from him about his experiences (NDA guy, marketing guru, and much more). A lot of coffee and crazy amounts of fun define how one becomes a part of something like Opdrage. Helping out startups to *start* *get funded* , helping people put money into the *right startups* is all that happens in a routine day here.

So if you have a killer idea (like mine here), mail in to me or Kris at opdrage (contact@opdrage.com) and make it all happen. Believe me, the next google killer is going to be in an Indian garage …. its all happening here.

I stood, to look over my fallen countrymen. It used to be all about the nation before i turned into stone, a mere statue to the stuff happening in our America today. We fought for what was right and ours … but our children today have forgotten those values.

It was the war for independence, I lead my army with the only possession that i really cared about …. my hand-made notebook. I promised to look over them till the end of time, all we needed to think about today was the nation to be born …. Howe, the British general was too busy fighting off his *british* enemy general Carleton, such were the British …. I knew we would make some early inroads …

It was a bright sunny Philadelphia morning …. we had planned our assault and our information said that the British were only twice as bigger. Should be easy, as the assault started i realized standing on the hilltop that we had been fooled … there were British troops all over the horizon much more in numbers than us. But we were in it, and fight we did …. very few survived … some remembered our fight to the death … in due time, America was born, and i was a statue looking over the graves of the thousands who fought for the *nation* besides me

Today i participated in ILUG-Delhi’s workshop, it was interesting to the end that i figured out how important it is to break down information into chewy bits.  I was supposed to give a presentation on  “building social networking applications using python”, i made the wrong assumption about the people present there.

But then one has to learn the hard way to do better the next time. I do look forward to taking part in more such events, ILUG-Delhi does require some more technical talks though tad bit more basic to start off with. For more information about ILUG Delhi hit

http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/

Its quite a quiet community right now, hopefully it can grow in the future to challenge the bengaluru group … jokes apart … Indian Open Source needs a lot more work, the current state is too individualistic (i can be easily accused of being one here). People should not be required to know / be chacha,bhatija to take part in such events in my view, the community feeling is missing i feel. Thats the only reason OSS has not taken off exponentially in India, the formation of an elite brahminical class it seems was inevitable like any other of our systems. It seems they are unable recruit the right kind of foot soldiers to carry on the torch into the bright bright Indian future …..