Live from Facebook Developer Garage Singapore!

by Mohan Belani

9.20pm: We are done with presentations! =)
Time for breakout sessions..
- Technology -> Programming language specific issues
- Business -> Monetization of facebook apps
- Social -> Facebook API vs MySpace API and more…

8.55pm: Presentation 4 – Dr Shaun Martin — CEO of Mindwasabi
- Study 2 kinds of networks: networks of neurons in brains and networks of human beings
- Discuss 6 rules for Facebook app
- Rule 1 – Embrace non-rationality
- Rule 2 – Non-rationality -> There are many kinds of valuable experiences
- Rule 3 – Non-rationality -> There are many ways to monetize
- Rule 4 – Embrace networks effects
- Rule 5 – Network effects -> A valuable experience will help you monetize. Influencing the network will help your app spread. These are different tasks
- Rule 6 – Network effects -> You cannot avoid the randomness of the network focus on building knowledge + capabilities. Let a series of apps be a by product
8.30pm: Presentation 3 – Justin Lee from Duration Inc
- Explains the use of .NET framework in Facebook
8.15pm: Presentation 2 – Leonard Lin — Developer of Battle Stations
- Developer of Singapore’s first MMORPG
- Leonard talks about the the growth of battle stations
- 13% spend an hour or more on BS
- Clan Wars launches today

7.45pm: Presentation 1 – Trey Phillips — Winner of F8 Hackathon in Palo Alto
- Talks about his experience with Facebook development and user possibilities..
- Shares his F8 idea and why it is so cool, how it started out..
- Reasons for developing a Facebook app..
- Why demographics are important for app development..
- What to do after the app has been developed..
- Multi-lingual/cultural specific applications..
- Metrics for Facebook apps..

7.37pm: Advice to developers, Move into productivity tools or educations applications would be an interesting genre of facebook applications. Dave signs off..

7.34pm: Facebook will look to expand with a physical presence in more countries as they can afford to expand. What are the challenges of huge growth? Facebook is still working on optimizing its platform performance..

7.33pm: Facebook will be releasing a feature allowing for grouping of friends soon…

7.30pm: Dave announces that there will be a special announcement concerning FB garages tomorrow

7.26pm: Dave is taking questions after a short introduction…. Someone asks how many developers are working on the facebook platform now. and apparenrly there are 66,000 developers working on the fb platform

7.23pm: We have Dave from Facebook speaking to us LIVE via “satellite”.. Trying to set up the connection.

7.20pm: How facebook came to Singapore… e27 baby! :)

7.15pm: Justin gives the introductory speech about the organizers from e27 and past events.

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  • http://dyxdavid-tech.blogspot.com David

    very cool stuff…

  • http://dyxdavid-tech.blogspot.com David

    very cool stuff…

  • http://sriram-krishnan.com sriram

    Thanks. I came slightly late and managed to catch up via the blog.

  • http://sriram-krishnan.com sriram

    Thanks. I came slightly late and managed to catch up via the blog.

  • http://www.treyp.com Trey Philips

    Thanks guys. I’ve put my slides up at:
    http://www.treyp.com/archives/recognition/facebook_developer_garage_singapore/

    Hope the hackathon went okay. I know they were having massive problems.

  • http://www.treyp.com Trey Philips

    Thanks guys. I’ve put my slides up at:
    http://www.treyp.com/archives/recognition/facebook_developer_garage_singapore/

    Hope the hackathon went okay. I know they were having massive problems.

  • mohanbelani

    Actually everything went really well.. Other than a few initial hick-ups, wireless was working great and there was power for everyone, not to mention drinks too =) We had developers working till 7am!! Good stuff everyone!!

  • http://www.e27.sg Mohan Belani

    Actually everything went really well.. Other than a few initial hick-ups, wireless was working great and there was power for everyone, not to mention drinks too =) We had developers working till 7am!! Good stuff everyone!!

  • http://www.treyp.com Trey Philips

    Sounds good. I meant Facebook was having problems. Most of the platform was down for several hours, but I guess it didn’t stop you guys. :)

  • http://www.treyp.com Trey Philips

    Sounds good. I meant Facebook was having problems. Most of the platform was down for several hours, but I guess it didn’t stop you guys. :)

  • http://ian.onthereddot.com/2007/10/25/just-1-thought-about-facebook-develope-garage-singapore/ Ian On The Red Dot :: Just 1 Thought About Facebook Develope Garage Singapore

    [...] can read about what happened during the event at E27 and Sg Entrepreneurs.  I just have one thing to comment about the night and that is what I learned [...]

  • Justin

    yeah good blogging moho

  • admin

    yeah good blogging moho

  • http://www.tzlee.com Justin Lee

    Hey people, I bumped into this site. Here’s my presentation slides re .NET for those who are interested! http://www.tzlee.com/downloads/public/it/fb_dev_garage_sg_2007.ppt

  • http://www.tzlee.com Justin Lee

    Hey people, I bumped into this site. Here’s my presentation slides re .NET for those who are interested! http://www.tzlee.com/downloads/public/it/fb_dev_garage_sg_2007.ppt

  • http://www.ideapreneur.net Daniel

    One cool event.

    We should do this more often.

  • http://www.ideapreneur.net Daniel

    One cool event.

    We should do this more often.

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