Archive for the 'ChipBlog' Category« Previous EntriesNext Entries »Wanna help test our Facebook application?If you have time, check out our new Chipin Facebook application: http://apps.facebook.com/mychipin Please add me to your facebook friend list if you want. Please use the built in support system to report bugs. Yes, we know we have plenty of bugs left to squash! I also want to share our first Facebook Chipin fundraiser.. College Connections Facebook this and that…The big buzz around here and with about 1000 developers a day is the Facebook API platform that was opened up almost three weeks ago. There were a bunch of apps that received a six week headstart, but for the rest of us, we started learning fbml and getting under the hood as fast as possible. We quickly got one of our Widget Management System clients up and running right away. We then huddled and came up with a plan on how to get Chipin as a legit Facebook App. We are sooo close. As many of you know, the final mile or 10% of a software app is often times the hardest to finish. All the little bugs and polish… just want to squash enough to make a good first impression. So, keep an eye on this blog as I’ll be announcing a rapid beta period before launching our new app. A day at ChipinSo you ever wondered what life at a startup is all about? Check out this video. NOTE! This is not our company.. it is from college humor folks Chipin is Hiring!We are exploding! Actually, we are not really going to blow up, but we are overwhelmed with projects and need to find a couple really good people to join us. If you know anyone that can help build the most kick ass “people powered fundraising” toolkit online, then send them our way. So who fits with our Ohana? Well, we are a socially responsible business. We set aside 4% of our founders shares into a foundation, we believe in the basic 1/1/1 principle. Give back to the community 1% of profits, 1% of time, and 1% of licenses/products. We have fun, work hard, and innovate like crazy. If you want to be part of an agile and forward looking company, give us a shout. So who are we hiring? We need a visionary VP of Engineering that can understand our underlying technologies, make the tough roadmap decisions, and most importantly build what our clients need quickly. Our product line is growing, so we also want to bring someone on that will own our multiple services.. live it, breath it, be one with it (ok… we are not that crazy). Finally, you got a good eye for design? Flash/Flex experience? Come help Kev create functional and beautiful designs for our sites and clients. Location either in San Francisco or Hawaii. Check out our job board for more info. We made it to Italy!Our good friend Francesco in Italy was kind enough to post our widget fundraising case study on his Italian fundraising portal today We plan to have language support and internationalization in our next release, so if anyone can volunteer to do some translations for us that would be great! Brain FitnessCrazy week. Facebook launched their API “Platform” and we have been on high alert ever since. We immediately got our biggest client’s widget on Facebook. They should be announcing it very soon. We went to the drawing board to huddle on how to best get Chipin onto the Facebook platform without just embedding a widget. We came up with an elegant and innovative approach that is going to blow people away! Luckily we had a pretty crack set of contractors already signed up to work on a new Chipin.com and a couple stealth projects. As with most startups, we needed to be agile to a changing market, so we quickly re-deployed resources (100% of resources) onto our FB-Chipin app. The plan is to launch it hopefully by the end of this week. Look for more updates here soon. If you want to volunteer to help us beta test the new product, drop us a line: contact Also a big shout out to Rob and Olin for work on the Big Ideas website at U.C. Berkeley (go bears!). It was one of our very early integrations of the Chipin Widget with an external client. An article about the site was even posted up as the front page of the Drupal.org site today. A couple articles on the project: http://alumni.berkeley.edu/calmag/200701/goldwitz.asp http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/13/berkeley_marketplace.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/31/BAG1VNAMD71.DTL http://alumni.berkeley.edu/calmag/200701/goldwitz.asp “Cal students have great ideas for addressing some of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. This marketplace will help them mobilize additional financial and in-kind resources to support their ideas, and recruit additional committed students.” - Robert Birgeneau, University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor “Big ideas at Berkeley inspired me to pursue and develop a concept that I had always thought was pie in the sky. Now I see the idea as ripe opportunity for transportation reform, and myself as an agent of change.” - Kevin Shively (2006 Bears Breaking Boundaries/Green Cities winner) “This is absolutely AWESOME! Incredibly well constructed and one of the most innovative student services I’ve seen in all my time here.” - Ilan Gur, Ph.D. - Materials Science & Engineering, UC Berkeley “Serving as co-president for Berkeley Nanotechnology Club, which is funded by Big Ideas, has been the most valuable experience of my grad school. The skills and knowledge that I acquired through interaction with business students, industry experts, and venture capitalists helped me a lot in getting a bigger picture of things and seeing the light!” - Bala Pesala, co-president, Berkeley Nanotechnology Club, “Tom Kalil is always willing to open up his rolodex and help us make connections with people across Berkeley and the professional community.” - Tim Kuruvella, co-president, Berkeley Biobusiness Association Help NetSquared ProjectsFrom Beth… Of course you should donate on the Chipin widget By Beth Kanter, 12:45 pm, Fri 18 May 2007
Of his own accord, philanthropy consultant, Peter Deitz, has launched a 10-day campaign across multiple online fundraising platforms to raise $500 for each of the 21 Featured Projects going to the NetSquared Conference.
Peter is encouraging you to tell the Projects, “We Like What You’re Doing” by making a donation of $21 ($1 for each project) He has set up campaigns on seven different personal fundraising platforms:  ChipIn - FirstGiving - GiveMeaning - SixDegrees - Fundable - Change.org - JustGive.org You can see the links for each fundraising platform and read Peter’s post here: You can help the campaign by 1. donating, Big thanks to Peter for donating his skills and time to help take these projects to the next level! Pretty Bird Update and Dell announcementWe are really excited and happy to announce that the Pretty Bird Woman House event surpassed their $25K goal thanks to the generous donations from Daily Kos readers and Chipin users! This event really shows the power of Chipin and group giving to help with urgent needs. If you have a story about how you used Chipin that you want to share, please drop me an email or leave a note in the comments. I am super psyched to announce that our new Chipin Widget Management System finally went live with our first client today. Dell Computers has launched a computer gift registry at dellunleashed.com. To use the site, you must be a current student, faculty member or incoming student. It is three easy steps. Select the system you want, how much you want to collect and enter in your paypal account. Simple! Just like a chipin.com event. So.. who’s gonna help me buy my first Dell? Pretty Bird Woman HouseThe Daily Kos ran a story today about the impending closure of the Pretty Bird Woman’s House. Daily Kos readers have rallied to Chipin money to help save the shelter. Let’s see if we can send them some support from Chipin! According to a recent Amnesty International report,more than one in three American Indian and Alaska Native women will beraped or sexually assaulted in their lifetime. Far too often,perpetrators of these crimes go unpunished, and victims have nowhere toturn due to poverty, remote geography and tangled legal jurisdictions. Inthis dire situation, local domestic violence advocates and women’sshelters can make all the difference in saving women from suchviolence; however these resources are chronically under funded. One ofthese shelters, Zintkala Waste Win Oti (“Pretty Bird Woman Houseâ€), hasrun out of funding and will be forced to close in May if new resourcescan’t be found. The shelter was founded by Jackie Brown Otterafter the kidnapping, rape and murder of her sister (whose Lakota namewas Pretty Bird Woman) and serves the Standing Rock Indian Reservation,on the border of North and South Dakota. The reservation covers over2.3 million acres, and with a per capita income of only $8,615, it’sone of the most destitute regions in the United States. From January2005 to August 2006, 125 domestic violence cases were filed with theStanding Rock Sioux Tribal Court—15 cases per month. Pretty Bird WomanHouse was involved with most of those cases, and without that program’shelp, many cases would have been ignored or withdrawn. If Pretty BirdWoman House does not receive continued funding, it is a foregoneconclusion that the women and children who would have been served bythe program will have to struggle along on their own. Domestic violenceon the Standing Rock Reservation will not be addressed and families,who constitute the spirit of the Reservation, will be weakened anddisenfranchised once again. With adequate resources, the shelterwould like to fund a director for the program, two advocates, and achildren’s advocate, food and supplies for the shelter, andtransportation for families who need to go places to find relatedservices or to relocate completely in order to escape the violence intheir lives. However, in the short-term, without a small amount offunding, the shelter will not be able to keep their phone lines openthrough May. You help can make all the difference in keepingLittle Bird Woman House open. Your help can contribute to stopping theepidemic of violence against American Indian women. If you would prefer to donate directly (rather than through paypal), checks can be sent to: Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund WidgetWe are all committed to creating a company that does well by doing good. While tragedies are always a blow to a person’s view on humanity, it is often times the recovery and healing that helps us move on as people and society. The Virginia Tech shooting is and will continue to be a terrible event for those directly impacted and also spectators like us who can only begin to comprehend the terrible loss, fear, anger, and distress that those closest to the event are going through. Money is not the answer to everything that is wrong, but it is an easy way for people to show their support and help create something great from something so wrong. Chipin is proud to announce, in partnership with Network for Good and United Way, a Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund Widget. Chipin has waived all fees for this campaign and all payments will go directly to the VA Tech Foundation Hokie Spirit Fund. Please help spread the word by spreading the widget. Just click on the copy tab and then the copy button and paste the code on your blog, website, myspace page, etc … ChipIn: fundraising made easy
We also have a JPG version of the widget available for those who can’t use Flash. The image updates each time the widget changes
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