Kiva has announced the new API at build.kiva. You can tell I am a bit behind, as their Introduced the Kiva API 5 days ago, but you know, better later than never. The Kiva API begins as a set of RESTful web services, focused primarily on the tasks of fetching public data from Kiva. They [...]
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A Fistful of Dollars
A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan from Kieran Ball on Vimeo. This video made by Kieran Ball follows the path of a $25 loan from London, England to Preak Tamao village, Cambodia. I can’t add anything to it. Just watch the video.
Application Security and Micro-financing
How comes OWASP, which is a community focused on improving the security of application software into the field of micro-financing? Ask James McGovern, who is a prominent member of both OWASP and Kiva, the micro-lending website. Well, one point of connection is the obvious, if you are a website dabbling into financial stuffs you need [...]
How I turned into a Venture Capitalist
Ok, not really. Far from it, but it sounds good no? What really happened is that I got an e-mail from James McGovern – author of the Enterprise Architecture and other blogs – who invited me to join the OWASP group on Kiva. Confused yet? Really, I was, did not know who James McGovern is, [...]