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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Send your Kiwee stuff using email
We've been quiet for the past couple of months, but that doesn't mean we haven't been working. In fact, just in time for the holiday season, we launched the ability to send postCards, Graphics and Widgets via email. We realize that not everyone has a MySpace or Facebook page, and that some people still appreciate good old-fashioned ecards. Now you can send stuff to mom and dad! (YES!!!)
If you've used our Kiwee editing tools before, you probably noticed that we changed a couple of things when we added email functionality to the site. The first thing you'd notice is that we added a bunch of big buttons instead of a drop down. Hopefully this will make it easier to find the place you want to send your custom greeting. So now it looks like this:
Just pick one of the social networks like MySpace or Piczo and the code will appear in the box. If you want to use email, just click the mail icon and fill out all the standard info. (You can email your greeting to all 10 of your friends).
You don't have to register or login to use any of our stuff and as always, it's all FREE.
BTW, sorry but we had to remove Friendster because they don't allow you to post Flash on your site anymore. :-(
What is a Widget? Wikipedia has a number of different definitions for them, but the one that is most appropriate for us here at Kiwee is this one:
The web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of reusable code that has existed for years. Other terms used to describe web widgets including: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets often but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.
Or simply put, a Kiwee Widget is something you can put on your page that has a function. You take to code and put a Kiwee Widget on your MySpace page, your personal website or your blog. We launched our first widgets in December and they are called Countdown Clocks. They can count down to any date or time that you choose. We've got Invite countdown clocks for your next party or big event and we've also got generic countdown clocks for all your needs. Here's how they look:
Kathy Golden (our head developer) and I recently had a chance to show off the new Kiwee postCard Facebook application at the OpenSocial Bay Area Facebook Developers Meetup at the Google campus in Mountain View. Afterwards we made a little video of the application for some bloggers who had asked for it. So if you aren't a facebook user and are interested in what we've been up to, check it out here:
So I did one of these at 50,000 and 100,000 and then I thought it might be getting obnoxious so I stopped for a while ... but we're very excited to announce that we've reached 500,000 registered users at Kiwee.com. This coming just a little more than 2 months after going over 100,000 so, if you care to do the math, you can see that we're speeding up (thanks for telling your friends about us).
I'll check back in with you when we go over 1 million ...
We were happy to see the response to our product launches this past week. We've had a lot of people checking them out and even some writing some nice things in their blogs about us. Check them out below:
I am very excited to share our latest news... Kiwee postCards are now available on Facebook! The same highly customized and fun postCards you can make on Kiwee and post on MySpace is now available to post on your friends’ Facebook profiles.
Kiwee postCards is a new application just added on Facebook today. To check it out, just click through to Facebook and choose to Add Application from our Kiwee postCards page. You might need to log in first, but you know how that goes. Once you add our application, you will see our handy step-by-step guide on how to use it.
This is quite a big day for us because we love Facebook as much as MySpace and are glad to be a part of it. To put the icing on the cake, our Kiwee postCards application got some attention from Mashable.com too.
All of us at Kiwee have been sending postCards and inviting friends. I hope you join us and start sending some of your own.
My Second favorite holiday HALLOWEEN (most fav is Thanksgiving due to my gluttony and passion for top quality stuffing) is quickly approaching. Halloween rocks, because, like Thanksgiving, there is a strong food component, but it also involves role-playing, aaaand gives you a reason to talk to your weird neighbors. The only down side of Halloween is all the darn Zombies. It seems like everyone is getting infected these day. So please, and I mean pretty please. Be careful.
I don't know if you have noticed all of the new content we posted this week, but in case you missed it, please let me highlight a few of the new gems. First off is our set of Fruit and veggies emoticons, which you can see below. I never thought of a kiwee as happy or a turnip as angry before this. Salad will never be the same.
I also want to share another great new postCard by a collage artist out of the UK by the name of Nikki Pinder. This artwork is exceptionally beautiful. Nikki constructs these out of vintage magazine and advertisements. This postCard has a real universal appeal for almost any sending situation, great for a quick hello, a thank you note, or just to pass along some eye candy.
Just pick one of the social networks like MySpace or Piczo and the code will appear in the box. If you want to use email, just click the mail icon and fill out all the standard info. (You can email your greeting to all 10 of your friends).
