Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Xaddress Updated

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

We are pleased to announce the latest release of Xaddress. Xaddress is a simple service that enables you to lookup Geo data based on an IP address. We created the service for our internal applications; however, we thought others would like the new JSON and XML APIs. http://xaddress.com A special thanks to ...

Public Site Moved to WordPress

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

In line with our 2008 social predictions we've moved our public site from Google's Blogger to Automattic's WordPress. We were clinging on to Blogger, hoping they would release a mind blowing update but, they didn't and we couldn't wait any longer. Working with Blogger is painful and ...

WTF? Bumped for ‘IS’?

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

The other day we released AppHound for Facebook but we didn't get much attention from the Facebook blogs. We're a bit disappointed that we were bumped for a story that is equivalent to the death of Clippy, but we will persevere :-) We'd like to give special thanks to MarketingVOX, GigaOM ...

Waking Up To Traffic Spikes

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

AppHound is on fire this morning! The application has already passed the 1,200 user mark and it was only released twelve hours ago. Now it's time to see how effective we are at marketing AppHound to new users. If you look at the potential market for AppHound you'll see it's not ...

AppHound Beta Released

Monday, November 19th, 2007

We are pleased to announce the general availability of AppHound! AppHound is an analytics application for Facebook that allows users to organize Facebook applications using labels, create trackers that log events when traffic patterns change and search for applications based on keywords or usage. Additionally, users are able to review Facebook ...

A Reminder

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 ...

1,000 New Users in a Week

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 ...

Smart Links: Traffic is Rising

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 ...

100,00 New Users in 1 Day!

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Wouldn't that be nice :-^ Today we officially released Smart Links for Facebook. Smart Links is a free productivity tool for Facebook that enables you organize your friends, groups, applications and external links into folders. What sets Smart Links apart is its JavaScript/Ajax interface. In a nutshell, Smart Links allows ...

Blogs Reach 1 Trillion People :-^

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

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