Keetup Development

Reconquista Urbano made us a note on Sunday that we share with you today:

Pedro Prez is part of Reconquista and Keetup to sell 95% of its production abroad and have the World Bank, Roche, the government of Buenos Aires among its customers.

On one wall of the Italian plumber jumping from a pipe Nintendo trying to reach a fungus that spreads radioactive life as a turtle winged flies over one of the monitors in the room.

What could be the room of a teenage nerd is actually a dream come true for a teenage nerd who now lives in the adult world exporting technology.

One of their brains lived his entire neighborhood youth still latent in San Martin, is Pedro Prez, born in 1983, when computers began to change the world, when Microsoft offered the 1.0 version of the word processor Word for DOS or separated ARPANET military network that originated, so as no military purpose, that date may be considered as the birth of the Internet or when Richard Stallman announced the GNU project publicly. The interviewee of Urban Reconquista nacEia on this date to be the protagonist three decades after the revolution of social networking..

Damián Rolón Ortiz: What is Keetup?

Pedro Prez: Keetup is a software company that develops social networks for different sectors, whether for personal enterprise, that of a company, university or institution. Many people dream of creating a social network to change the world and we are in the task of making that dream come true.

Damián Rolón Ortiz: So the question for this interview will Ques ender is a social network?

Pedro Prez: a social network is a tool where different actors, people, institutions, companies, are related to a common goal which is to communicate. Today the Internet is undergoing a major shift everything social because people are by nature social beings, that is why we see social networks everywhere, games, blogs, online diaries, maps.

Damián Rolón Ortiz: The common man understands only Facebook or Twitter as a social network, then one might ask for a social network like one if you can get a Facebook page What are the advantages of having one's own network social?

Pedro Prez: The person, institution or company that decides to make its own social network platforms are looking for something that is not give you full control over it. Then there is the issue of data and information that the ususarios share, interests, likes, comments, which we know are the most valuable treasure that can have any social network, why Facebook is free and will remain so, and is what allows today than any web business work. Tambi'n a social network could be for internal use by a company, which is increasingly more companies and for obvious all that information generated should remain privately.

Damián Rolón Ortiz: How is made and born Keetup?

Pedro Prez: Keetup founded with the goal of being a company difernete, bringing together their efforts on something very specific professionalized to the point of being refente worldwide making.

It consists of a group of about ten diferenes professional disciplines including programmers, designers, testers, analysts, that interact in a coordinated manner to achieve quality products.

Damián Rolón Ortiz: How are the days Keetup?

Pedro Prez: If its a deadline day ... better stay away. Other days you tend to be relaxed, there are very good atmosphere in the office.

Damián Rolón Ortiz: he company has ISO 9001:2008 certification. How is this accomplished?

Pedro Prez: Certify it took a lot of effort and sacrifice, was a process that lasted for about a year, but it was hard for those jumps that are necessary if one wants to take as a company grows. With ISO we reorganized and today we see the result of that effort as our entire supply chain as well as the significantly improved customer satisfaction.

Damián Rolón Ortiz: It is clear that the neighborhood pantry not need its own social network so help us see better. Who are clintes of Keetup?

Pedro Prez: Keetup primarily serves around the world, in 2012 we export 95% of our production. Our main customers are in Europe (44%), followed by the U.S. (31%), the remaining percentage is distributed between Asia and Latin America. The profiles of each of our clients are diverse, we have worked with universities, governments, businesses and entrepreneurs.

Regarding Social Networks have created all kinds: educational, to improve internal communication between employees, purchase and sale, gaming, sports, fashion, sharing interests, to find pairs of Interchange of conociemientos, for entrepreneurs, for bartenders, job, kids, food, pets, hunting business. Some of our most important clients are the World Bank, Roche, The Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Yellow Pages, Hypermarkets Easy, Four Roses Bourbon, Litpral National University, University of Santiago de Chile.

Damián Rolón Ortiz: What was the most interesting to work faced and why?

Pedro Prez: We made many curious social networks, but there was a very particularly strange was so elitist, register cost more than $ 1,000 and was designed for celebrities and upper class American. Unfortunately did not succeed, but it would have been very mad if that would have worked.

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We would like to thank all the Elgg team for giving us updates constantly, and then, we would like to communicate that the versions of Elgg 1.8.11 and 1.7.16 are ready.

As usual you can download them on the official site.

The version 1.8.11 solves a security problem accidentally added on the version 1.8.10, and the last one incorporates very important and useful news, like:

• A list of administrators on the Administration section, 
• The entities of the modules are now cached, 
• Removed superfluous commas in JS files to fix IE compatibility,
• The Twitter API has been fixed, 
• And some more technical improvements. 

For newbies, we are going to present a detailed guide that explains how to install Elgg, don't miss it!

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Cercamia is a social network to exchange knowledge, presents, events, projects, languages, and much more. You just have to register and login cercamia.com and add your interests, select what would you like to offer, and what would you like to get in exchange, you have to suggest something you would like to invite, and what you would like to be invited for, and then you can go to the the advanced search and easily find people with similar interests who matchs your likes near you.

This social network is aimed to cultural and technological activities and its objective is to join people and companies.

Although there are a lot of social networks now a days, cercamia.com is the unique in its kind and it has a big proyection because of being so innovative.

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Some time ago in Keetup we have a dedicated person to do the full test of the social networks that we develop. Whether testing of programming different functionality, as well as the CSS layout of the site. I will to tell you the different ways we went by testing our developments as we conclude that a dedicated person is the best option.

At first, this task is performed by the same person in charge of development, whether a developer or web designer.

Disadvantages:

• A person tends not to destroy what he does, is not going to try to break that data has been developed.
• As the person knows the operation, you will always test with correct data.
• Not usually take much time to experiment with different data sets or different browsers.

Then we performed a cross-testing, in terms of programming. A person develops a certain functionality and someone else test it.

Disadvantages:

• Take the test with a small range of data to verify proper operation.
• Do not conduct tests in different browsers.
• It is a task that a programmer does not devote much time.

Now we have one person dedicated entirely to this task. Who is responsible for testing each of the different functionality in different browsers, checking the compatibility of the site with them. Besides performing a comprehensive test after finishing the stage of development.

This person also suggests corrections or different ways to implement some features.

The advantages are many, I will detail a few:

• In our case, being a person who does not develop, tend to see other problems than a developer does not see.
• Sometimes the developers perform a task and not put in place of the user in terms of ease of use and disposition of data, this issues will be able to identify this person.
• It will educate developers, so each time they commit fewer errors, thus lowering the error rate.
• Social networks that are developed have many interactions between different users, being a person responsible for the testing, one person will have more control over these interactions and the detection of potential problems.

In conclusion, we are now less likely to commit over and over again the same mistakes. We delivers a higher quality product, through the comprehensive testing of all functionality in different browsers.

Diego Gallardo

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The standarization ISO 9001:2008 is a document that specifies the requirements that the quality system management of an organization must comply. This standard has been created by the International Organization for Standardization and is commonly known as ISO 9001.

We have been preparing 11 months for the audit that will occur in March. The external audit shall be conducted and held by the prestigious german company TÜV.

Many of you will wonder why Keetup needs to certify this well known standard, and although I could talk a lot about it, the answer is simple, we want to be better and we try hard to make that happen. The main objective is that our customers get a great product that goes through all the processes where each intermediate product is controlled, tested, and validated. This results in a final product that meets the requirements that the client has demanded.

We believe that we must continually improve and each day be better than the day before learning from our successes and failures and for this reason we have created a quality Policy that is the emblem that the Company follows.

• In Keetup we provide customized social network development, putting our efforts on providing a product with the best quality as possible which meets the requirements of our customers.
• We are committed to meet the requirements of ISO 9001, ensuring the quality of our processes.
• We organize meetings with the staff and the directive, seeking to overcome adversity to contribute to continuous improvement.
• We care about having a communication with our customers during all the necessary processes - from first contact to final delivery - to understand and meet their requirements.
• This we could not do without our main value which is Human Resources. Thus we want and try that the relationship with them to be durable, promoting good internal communication and providing a warm  and dignified work environment.
• Keetup strives to develop and maintain a transparent image to reach potential markets and insert their services and products.

We believe that being a better business is a process that may never end but the important thing is to keep the goal and never give up.

"Stay hungry, stay foolish". Steve Jobs.

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