About two weeks ago I wrote about Kiva, a cool website that allows people to make microloans. Almost one month ago they had started a developer site, including an easy to use API to access the data (loans, borrowers, lenders, etc).
I couldn’t resist the temptation to have a look at the documentation and start thinking [...]
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The ultimate TODO app
I have been quite frustrated by TODO applications for some months now. They’re usually either too simple, or almost too complex and without features that I think are really valuable. In particular, there are two things that I don’t remember having seen in any TODO application:
Possibility to “postpone” a task, so it doesn’t appear in [...]
Kiva.org
Some weeks ago, Steve from Cranium Designs mentioned a website, Kiva.org. He linked to a very interesting video that showed how it works, and a couple of things really got me interested:
The whole lending-money-to-people-who-need-it (and to whom banks will probably not lend) really attracted me. You help communities develop, and you don’t even lose money, [...]
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