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An update on Development Status Of KMarks August 26th 2008

Previous Posts regarding KMarks:
A New Sun Rises - KMarks
KMarks - Not your grandmothers bookmarks

For those interested in KMarks and its development status here is an update.

Development of KMarks has started and I am devoting around 15 - 20 hrs a week on writing code and another 10 - 15 hours planning out the phases, features that go into releases and of course architecting the current release of KMarks code named ‘Signature’. The planned features list grew to 50 features, but only 2 features will be released in ‘Signature’ release. The first four releases may not be exciting enough. The 5th release would be decent and will be much similar to existing social bookmarking web sites. But from release 6, all the excitement and fun begins. Each release after the 6th release would give you a ‘WOW’ experience.

An approximatish… timeline: (Everything below is tentative)
September 20ish 2008 … - Testing of Signature release starts.
October 20ish 2008 … - Public Beta Testing of Signature (Invites only)
Early 2009 … - Goes live.
End of 2009 - Release 5.
Start of 2010 - Release 6+. All the fun and excitement starts.

Now as for the current development status:
Prototyping 3 different UI experiences and demoing it to 3 persons who are my friends, get their feedback and select one of them. I am done with prototyping 1 UI experience. And I plan to get the other 2 done before the long weekend.

Using SubSonic for Data Access.
MySQL for database.
ASP.Net 2.0
C#
Ajax
JQuery

BTW KMarks is just a codename for the entire project, when it gets released it gets a name for itself.

An update on Development Status Of KMarks August 26th 2008

A New Sun Rises - KMarks

I am planning a brand new Web 2.0 style project, I am calling it ‘KMarks - Not your Grandmother’s bookmarks’. This may sound silly, because there are 100’s of bookmarking sites already. Yes, there are 100’s of bookmarking sites, but they are all much alike and are not improving much. I think Social Bookmarking can go be made a lot better, and I think most people are already sick of how Digg, Reddit etc.. can be manipulated. Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions like which features you want and which features can be improved. Or you can suggest some good websites and tell me that a particular features in a certain website is good and can be improved this way. So that we can create a huge list of features and implement them. If you are interested in development or testing or if you want to know more about the project or make any contribution please contact me on dev AT kantikalyan DOT com. I am not looking for any donations or money, Iam looking for advice and for some people who can do some beta tests etc.. This project will be implemented in a Agile type way. There would be frequent releases almost 1 release every 2 - 4 weeks. My philosophy is to aim big, but to start with just a handful of features and increment it. Take as much User feedback as possible and there by prioritize the goals and roadmap. As this thought just started in my head, you may have to wait few weeks before you can see the infant. And yes, I would be very pleased if someone with a good designing skills can help me in designing he logo etc..

Pssst.. Put KMarks in the subject of your emails, so that I know the email is regarding KMarks and if it has a subject starting with KMarks, I will definitely read it.

A New Sun Rises - KMarks