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The Winners: Your Favorite Kiva Apps

Submitted by Halle Tecco on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

In the month of May, you voted for your favorite Kiva Apps.  Over 400 people voted, and the results are in!

#1 KIVA ALERTS: A suite of tools for facebook, mobile, and the web that tell alert you when loans of your interest appear on Kiva.

#2 KIVA WORLD: A live map of global Kiva loans in all stages: fundraising, funded, in repayment, and paid. Click on the markers to read more about the entrepreneur in the area.

#3 KIVA HEADS: Lets you browse loans on Facebook, and show off your loans in your Facebook page.

NEW: Teams, Baskets, and More Search

Submitted by Skylar Woodward on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Measuring the Social Impact of Kiva Loans

Submitted by Halle Tecco on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

What's your favorite Kiva app?

Submitted by Halle Tecco on Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Since we’ve opened the Kiva API, developers have been tinkering away and creating great applications and widgets using Kiva data. Check out these cool apps and vote on your favorite one during the month of May! In alphabetical order:

Kiva speaks at NTC

Submitted by Halle Tecco on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Kiva Developer Garage

Submitted by Halle Tecco on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Thanks for coming! #buildkiva!

Submitted by admin on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Skylar introducing Kiva CEO & President

April 9: Kiva Developers happy hour

Submitted by Skylar Woodward on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

In 10 days we're holding the first open event for Kiva Developers!  Nothing too formal, we're just opening up the Kiva offices for friends and developers to meet-up, chat, and hang out.  We'll have drinks and snacks on hand, all starting at 6:30pm on Thursday, April 9:

New: Video, myLenderId, and more...

Submitted by Skylar Woodward on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

The First Two Weeks

Submitted by Skylar Woodward on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Wow.  We're pretty excited about what's happening with the API thus far. Within a couple of hours of the launch we saw the first use of the API on a blog and in the first week there were four API toolkits for accessing the API in a range of languages. Here's a couple of other things that popped up that caught our eye:

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