Some of you may know that Kiva maintains a two-week release cycle, so that every two weeks we release changes to the website. Sometimes these changes are more noticeable than others. In the last couple weeks, the vast majority of what we’ve been work…
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November 17th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
Making Kiva more transparent
October 23rd, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
One thing we strive towards at Kiva is increased transparency into how microfinance works. Next week, we’ll be releasing some changes to how we account for our loans. If you want the really, really detailed version, I encourage you to read this post an…
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August 28th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
If you’re a follower of Matt’s blog at all, what we’re doing today is old news to you:http://www.socialedge.org/blogs/kiva-chronicles/archive/2008/08/26/liquidity-and-communityHe’s explained what we’re doing far better than I ever could. To s…
Introducing KivaVision
August 5th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
There are so many cool things to be done with the Kiva website. When we get around to doing them, with all the backend/site-maintenance/money-transferring tasks that typically take higher precedence, it’s an extremely gratifying experience. A few weeks…
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July 7th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
I was inspired by an email from one of our most involved Kivans to explain why Kiva has been ramping up the number of entrepreneurs ready to fund on our site. At the time of this writing, there are 573 fundraising loans on our site. This is a significa…
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June 24th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
We pushed out a release earlier this afternoon (and brought down the site for a little bit – sorry about that!). Briefly, the changes you might notice are:We changed the metrics ticker on the home page a bit so it represents some more informatio…
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June 10th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
You may have noticed that we changed the donation/”Help us Pay the Rent” screen during the loan checkout process.In particular, we’re rotating through different pictures of Kiva Staffers to see which pictures are more likely to inspire people to donate…
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June 10th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
Stay tuned and you’ll see a special surprise on the Kiva homepage.Some explanation:We looked at some data that showed where people were looking and clicking on the homepage, and we found that not a lot of people pay much attention to the list of entrep…
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May 27th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
We’re rolling out a release that the Kiva team is very excited about this week, and we hope it will excite you, too. I’ll list the highlights:Blended Payments: Lenders can now pay using a combination of their Kiva Credit and a PayPal transaction. In th…
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May 14th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
The Kiva website experienced some unexpected downtime today between the hours of 2pm-3:30pm PST. Our web provider seems to have run some maintenance tasks that brought the site down without informing us first. We apologize for the outage and are sorry …
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April 29th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
Well, almost one-click.We’re adding a neat new feature when adding loans that allows lenders to drop loans into their baskets more easily. On Kiva’s Lend and Home pages, there will now be a “Lend $25” button which will quickly drop $25 of a loan …
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April 15th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
Ok, that title’s pretty cheesy given what this post is about, but oh well. Basically, a little while ago, Jeremy (one of our engineers) found himself in the happy situation of having some Kiva Credit to spend. So, he made his way to the Kiva Lend page,…
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April 1st, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
Starting this week, Kiva will be sending out monthly reminders to all of you who have Kiva Credit sitting in your accounts. There are a few ways you can receive Kiva Credit; the most common are when a borrower fully repays her loan or someone gives you…
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March 18th, 2008 — from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
Hi there,We’re getting ready to roll out another release later this week, and we just wanted to send out a heads up before our new features hit the shelves.One thing we’ve been pushing pretty hard lately is invitations. We need people to invite the…
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March 7th, 2008 — P2P Lending from Roma Jhaveri @ Kiva.org
Towards the end of last year, Kiva decided to allow partners to post loans for groups of borrowers in addition to individual borrowers. The main reason we decided to move forward with this is that it represents a truer picture of what’s happening on …
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