Live from Facebook Developer Garage Singapore!
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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