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The Kiva.org Update – KivaCloud Webapp & Ruby Kiva API Wrapper?

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Kiva.org
Thats right, I just posted about its launch yesterday, and already Kiva.org developers are hawt to trawt. I’ve been following the Kiva.org Google Group and I found that one dedicated and altruistic developer is creating a Ruby Wrapper for Kiva! (you can find it at the almighty github)

Now, thats not is, another developer created a “KivaCloud”, designed to show and navigate through the Kiva.org datasets. A great little webapp created by smoovej on the build.kiva.org google group

viewable at: http://www.frazao.org/kivacloud/

viewable at: http://www.frazao.org/kivacloud/

Not bad for a days work right? People are really jumping on Kiva.org! I look forward to what happens next!

Kiva – Person to Person Lending (now API)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009


Kiva.org is the worlds first person-to-person lending services who’s goal is to alleviate poverty. Nice huh? Recently covered and added to the programmableweb directory, Kiva’s will allow developers some great access to their site and services allowing normal joes and janes (such as yourself) to help build a socially concious application!

Introducing its developer blog, and developer homepage, Kiva looks to support its developers with a wiki, great documentation and more!

There have already been 2 visualizations of the Kiva network, check them out below!

Factsheet

Kiva Tutorials, Resources, and Links!