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 MaxMind for the open GeoLite data.

If you are a feed reader you may have noticed that all the posts were marked as unread.

We hope you enjoy the new site!

We’d like to give special thanks to MarketingVOX, GigaOM and others for their coverage!

We would also like to thank all the AppHound users. The application continues to grow at a very respectable rate. If you have feedback on how we can improve the application, let us know. We hope you find the application as useful as we do!

If you look at the potential market for AppHound you’ll see it’s not outstanding. There are 100,000+ Facebook developers registered and we’ll assume there are a lot of marketing people that will also love AppHound. Let’s say the total market is around 200,000 users. Considering we only spent three weeks developing the application, if we are able to capture 25% of the market and all the users visit the site daily we would consider AppHound a huge success.

We also think that AppHound is an outstanding marketing tool for Deft Labs. With AppHound we’re able to expose our company to the people driving the social application industry. Our next application is coming soon :-)

If your company has an advertising platform or network we’re open to partnerships. Our data can provide invaluable insights into applications your sales force should contact as you build-out your Facebook advertising network.

http://apps.facebook.com/apphound

Our usage numbers are based on our live servers.

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 application market data.

AppHound is a must-have for all serious Facebook developers. It can provide invaluable insights into popular application categories and will alert you when your application usage goes up or down.

We hope you enjoy using the application as much as we enjoyed developing it!

http://apps.facebook.com/apphound

We are flattered that people like our ideas but we would like credit for our effort.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/

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 able to discern a lot of really interesting metrics but we will call those trade secrets.

The most exciting aspect of the application… people are actually using it :-)

Hopefully, the growth trajectory will continue at its current rate but we’re a bit skeptical. Tomorrow, we begin work on a new product and we’ll scale back our Smart Links marketing efforts. Stay tuned because our next application will appeal to both power and casual users.

We’ve submitted Smart Links for inclusion in the Facebook application directory. We’ll see how effective this is at driving traffic to the application.

For those inclined to check the math, Facebook and other application stat tools are typically one or more days behind. Our data is collected from our live servers.

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 you to more efficiently navigate Facebook.

Here are the links for the application and the about page. Facebook requires a sign in to view these pages.

Smart Links (about)