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/

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

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!

• Kiva Visualization using API (Kiva Network map)
• Kiva Complete Visualization of Network

Factsheet

• API Homepage: Kiva API Homepage
• API Signup: none?!
• Kiva API Documentation

Kiva Tutorials, Resources, and Links!

• Kiva API Homepage
• Kiva Ideas (a running list)
• Kiva Blog
• Getting Started with Kiva API - Kiva.org

This is the first installment of a series of free file storage/sharing apis where I will look at all of the free file storage services that offer an api. Whether your looking for a place to send songs, collaborate in a meeting scenario or create mass mirrors, these apis will help you! At the end I will do an overall roundup for you where I briefly overview the content in these detailed reports. Up first?

being a relative underdog (in terms of market saturation at least) to the well established and rather exploded scene of online file sharing made free drop.io is where my money is at.

Fact Sheet

• allowed: anything
• space allocated: 100mb per “drop”, unlimited drops.
• retention: “about a year after the last view” aka infinite aka duration of drop.io lifespan (thus – hopefully infinite)
• api home: http://api.drop.io
• key features: private (no google indexing), full management / creation of files through api, great retention.

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