Behind the Apps: Humsara (Kiva Lender badge in Flash)

We were excited to see a new app roll out this week-- created by developer Amol Mittal from San Francisco.  When Amol noticed that the current Kiva badges were geared towards specific publishing platforms

Behind the Apps: Kiva iPhone App

The much-anticipated Kiva iPhone App is almost ready to be launched. According to the developers, they are 80% of the way there. And the home-stretch depends on the amount of help they can get for final...

Behind the Apps: Kivalytics

If you like data, you'll like Kivalytics.  This Kiva App is a nifty set of graphs looking at loans.

For example, you can view a bar graph of loans by country, and see that Peru has by far the most loan dollars, followed by Cambodia. Hovering over any of the bars gives you the exact number of loans.  Some other things I learned from Kivalytics:

Behind the Apps: Kiva World

Behind the Apps: Kiva World

Behind the Apps: Kiva Ads

Kiva Ads is a nifty tool that allows you to customize ads to embed into your website.  For example, a woman's organization promoting health in Africa can now make ads to promote borrowers that align with their mission.  You can sort by gender, loan status, sector, and region:

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Behind the Apps: Ahkun

Kiva + (a tool from Ahkun) lets you track individual loans, or your entire loan profile in new ways. For example, by typing in the Kiva Loan ID here, you're able to see a graph comparing Expected vs. Actual Payments

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