Check out Kwippy, I'm really enjoying it

Software engineer by profession, entrepreneur at heart. That’s what 25 year old Mayank Dhingra’s personal blog proclaims.

And I don’t doubt it. I got a welcome from him earlier this afternoon when I joined his Kwippy service that, I suspect, is about to hit the stratosphere. Mayank is based in India — which is exactly the place I’d base myself if I was building a micro/nanoblogging webapp + IM status logger + social network. As the millions — nay, billions — of GSM users around the planet begin to try out these kind of tools, the real growth won’t be in Silicon Valley.

Kwippy is very much in development. But I like the fact the founder is on the site, playing around, welcoming people and testing away.

Here’s what Mayank has to say about his service — and it’s a stimulating philosophy, building things around the IM client directly:

On twitter you mostly meet strangers. By strangers I mean people you don’t know in the real world. It’s like barcamp, or a conference where you go partly to network. You meet fellow bloggers, marketeers, and people from your field. Yes friendships may grow among them, but mostly there are subtle motives behind the tweets. From promoting your blog, selling your product, showing your expertise, etc.

Pownce is geared more towards file sharing, sharing media (youtube, mp3s) etc. And it has an AIR instant messenger kind of software which makes it a little closer to an Instant Messenger.

In kwippy, the whole focus is on the Instant Messenger. The friends list on the instant messenger is the most intimate friends list you can find, of all social networks. It gives the people in the list immediate access to your attention. People share their joys (i got a raise), sorrows (i flunked my english papers), their favorite links, and thousand other things through their status messages. And all these people also have a list of their closest friends on their list. And like in the real world when a real friend introduces you to another person, the chances that you hit it off are greater. There’s this trust thing which is automatic.

So there – kwippy has a social network which gets real friends, friends you could meet. And it stores all your status messages, which become your emotional timeline.

We have been working on it since some time, and now it is in testing. If you would like to check it out, and give your invaluable suggestions for improvement, either go to kwippy.com, or comment here.

Check out the service. I’m ‘smstextnews‘. Add me if you wish. Or email me and I’ll invite you.

I would invite those following me on Twitter to join Kwippy as well. Only, Twitter’s down at the moment…