Fade to Play

Last night I was fortunate to attend our first Facebook Developer Garage held at the Vancouver Film School. There were over 100 attendees and included developers, marketing experts, and those interested in apps from a social perspective. Although, some have referred to Vancouver as Techcouver, or Vangroovy, I call Vancouver “Valley North” due to the high quality of talent, creativity, and entrepreneurship that is reminiscent in Palo Alto. Special shouts out to Miss604 who liveblogged it (awesome job) and Kris Krüg (kk+) who live streamed to flickr (cool pics).

The applications demoed:

• Up4 by ActiveState
• Are You Normal by Kinzin (see writeup in 24 hours) [over 100 000 activated in 3 weeks]
• NoteMix by Colin Kierans
• MyBus by HandiMobility
• Opus “Mixx” Music Player and Social Playlists by Donat Group
• Green Gifts by Social Signal
• Scratch and Win by Backstage Technologies
• Classtalk by PeerGlobe

There was a presentation by Jason Bailey of Kick in the Nuts Media on Monetizing Your Facebook Application(s).

Boris Mann and Johnny concluded the evening by discussion OpenID and the Future of Facebook. The presentation focused on how by using OpenID applications should be built for everyone, not just locked inside Facebook.

For a more complete summary of the night, please read:

• Miss 604 (official Vancouver Facebook Developer Garage blog)
• Megan Cole

Relevance: We are talking about Facebook. Well worth attending, socialising, and learning about the Vancouver community’s role in application development there.