Archive for December, 2007

Notes on Android

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Over the holidays we researched Google's Android. We assembled a lot of information but never finished documenting our analysis. Here are our notes. In case you've been hiding under a rock for the last month, Android is Google's new mobile operating system. In August of 2005, Google acquired Android from a ...

2008 Social Industry Predictions

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

It's a little early, but we wanted to get a jump on the competition. Here are the Deft Labs social tech predictions for 2008: Social Networks We don't believe there will be the massive rush to develop applications for LinkedIn. We think recruiting, consulting and contact management applications will have a lot ...

Facebook and OpenSocial - The Numbers

Monday, December 10th, 2007

So far it appears that Google's OpenSocial still hasn't impacted the Facebook application market. Facebook opened their platform to developers in May and there are already over 10,000 applications available. The rate of new applications continues to grow at an astounding pace. In the last month there were roughly ...