Sunday, December 7th, 2008
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Technology predictions are always challenging. A detailed knowledge of the past and a thorough understanding of the industry are required to attempt to predict the future. Major financial upheavals are difficult to predict and can definitely shorten growth cycles.
We are going to review the social technology predictions ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Despite the release of OpenSocial, Facebook applications continue to be released. The chart below shows the growth of Facebook applications over the last week. It will be interesting to see what the trend looks like next week.
Despite the tone of previous posts we still think OpenSocial is good for the ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Yesterday, Google released their OpenSocial API. As a social application service provider we're excited about the concept of write once run anywhere. What's the problem? It's all hype right now. Google should have spent more time polishing OpenSocial before they released the product. The only live site that supports applications ...
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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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