Archive for October, 2007
Friday, October 19th, 2007
The Deft Labs Blog has garnered a lot of attention recently and we are starting to see some of our ideas appear in other blogs. This blog is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. You're free to do just about anything you like with the content but you ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Has the Google engineering team decreed the platform wars are over? Apparently, Jeff Huber the VP of Engineering at Google, in his presentation at Web 2.0 made a pitch for developers to forget about platforms. Jeff pitched the vision of the programmable web. I assume that he means everyone should ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Don't move your servers to California just yet. It looks like Facebook is expanding to the East Coast. GigaOM posted an entry about Facebook securing 10,000 square feet of data center space in Virginia. If your performance requirements are critical you may still want to consider the move because I ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Smart Links is now almost a week old and the application has over 1,000 users. We're incredibly excited about the growth. Our next application will be released soon and will appeal to a much larger audience. Thanks to all the sites who reviewed the application and the people actually using ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Let's say Facebook is able to raise capital on a pre-money valuation of $15B. We'll also assume that they have 39M users. Not including the value of their IP or employees, Facebook is worth approximately $394 per user. Believe it or not that's not even close to the $710 per ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Proximity is everything. If you're a media technology startup and you're looking for investment, NYC is the place to be.
The same logic holds true for social platform applications. From a technical standpoint, the anatomy of a Facebook platform request is:
User makes a web request to Facebook
Facebook inspects the request and ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Today Apple announced that they will release OS X Leopard on October 26th. Like every other geek I was pretty excited when I heard the news.
Great, what does this have to do with social applications?
There is a new operating system in town and it's not a Uni*x variant. Social Platforms ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Developers are the key to victory in the upcoming Social Platform Wars. The 15 billion dollar question is how do you attract developers to your platform? Facebook and their VC partners announced a $10M fund and claim that over 80,000 developers have registered so far. This is an impressive number ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
While developing Smart Links we spent a lot of time thinking about the security model of Facebook applications. We did this to ensure that our users have a reliable experience. Imagine how a user would feel if they went to view a link they added in the application and it ...
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Smart Links is doing well!
Since we released Smart Links Thursday afternoon we've added over 700 users. We're seeing an overall average of ~8.5 new users per hour. More importantly, if you look at the data for the last 24 hours alone, we're at ~19 new users per hour. We were ...
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