Facebook Application Development March Meeting

6.30pm - Pizza (thanks AOL)
7pm Panel: The 3 S' of a Successful Facebook App

You've built an online community with a cool App. Now hear from the experts about the 3 S' of success.
What is involved in Scaling, Social Graphing for Viral Play and Spreading to other platforms with similar success.
Learn from the experts: what works and what doesn't.

• Jia Shen, Rock You, the largest App network inside Facebook with 1/2 of Fb users touched daily.
  
• Siqi Chen, of Friend for Sale App which is the hottest viral play on facebook
  
• Nick Gerekines, of Y! Delicious and Author of "Building Facebook Applications" by Wiley Publications
  
• Kevin Chou, CEO of Water Cooler which enables fans to connect with other fans in entertainment and sports communities inside their favorite social networks: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and Friendster.
  
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8pm: Facebook Entrepreneurs - Lightning Demos by Facebook entrepreneurs

1. Jing Chen, Richard and Charles - Developer Analytics (http://www.developera..., a cool developer community and analytics site helping fb developers with virality and app engagement.
2. Waleed Abdulla of Weekend Apps will show his new "Blogs I Read" app.
3. Mark Slater will show Listage and his demo is focused on "friends list"
4. George Deglin "courses" app has been working with Fb since F8 launch. He wants to share his insights about his other education related Apps.
5. Yong Su Kim - Askpedia, an ebay like knowledge marketplace where users can pay for the best answer from the community. This is an example of an existing business launching a fb app, good example to see if fb is an additional outreach or user acquisition channel.
6. Pikipages by Tony Zuccarino ( I love this one, its an amazing example of cool web technology + facebook
7. Patrick Boyle - My Home Thingi, has a nice easter hunt builtin :)
8. Holly Liu will demo Watercooler (http://www.watercoole...) an online entertainment and sports communities inside your favorite social networks: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and Friendster.
9. Derek Dukes will demo Dipity App which allows you to create a social timeline, wow, what imagination to create new apps fitting in the social graph.
10. Dave Nielsen will demo Bracketmadness, an online supplement game to NCAA mens basketball tournament.
12. Ryan Merket will showcase an SpinVox (www.spinvox.com), an example of integration of fb with other web2.0 sites using cell network.

Come join us to make this meetup interactive, learning and lots of fun as usual!

Wow people! Amazing response of great Apps for demo, please let me know if I promised and left anyone here.

Live Streaming: Wadiwallah.com, a a platform for the community side of the Silicon Valley and The Siliconstani have agreed to sponsor live video streaming of the event for Lawrence and others who cannot join us in person.