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fbExchange.Net - a new site for Facebook development answers

With Daniel Schaffer (author of the .Net Facebook API Client) I’ve put together a Stack Overflow-type website for Facebook developer help called fbExchange.Net. It’s intended to build as a knowledge base and to be focussed more on tech than the official discussion format.

ITV loves Facebook

Ben Ayers at the Facebook Developer Garage London ITV loves Facebook it seems, digital manager told the Favcebook Garage in London tonight. They found 1.2 million visitors to their site were coming via Facebook, echoing Facebook’s own discovery as the sharing site of choice for most of the internet. They’ve been busy amassing 600,000 fans of their shows and hav

Developers making over $700,000 month on Facebook

According to Techrunch, at least one of the clients of Social Media are making over $700,000 a month from a suite of Facebook apps.

BBC 'The Box' Flash Game Competition Now OPEN!

The Facebook Developer Garage London is helping the BBC to find a fun flash game as part of their ‘The Box’ project, tracking a BBC branded shipping container as it travels around the world, transporting goods by sea, road and rail, to educate about globalisation. They're looking for an enjoyable (and potentially educational) game which is related to the box project in some way.

Lookery video: "The Facebook Platform is Dead"

This video presentation from Scott Rafer of Lookery makes the argument that the Facebook Platform is dead and that Connect is the next big thing, but only for the short term. Lookery is quite a high volume application advertising platform, as well as off Facebook, so has access to a lot of traffic data and can't be dismissed out-of-hand. View Scott Rafer's presentation

BBC's 'The Box' Flash Game Competition

The Facebook Developer Garage London is helping the BBC to find a fun flash game as part of their 'The Box' project, tracking a BBC branded shipping container as it travels around the world, transporting goods by sea, road and rail, to educate about globalisation. Any individual can submit a flash game they've created, with the final winner being voted on by the public.

October Garage: Speaker line up here, tickets available now!

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/183235061 Join us this month as: * Phil Clandillon and Steve Milbourne from Sony BMG talk about an application based competition they ran across Facebook and Bebo to promote Michael Jackson, lessons they've learnt and what else they're doing on the platforms * Chris Thorpe from MySpace discusses the changover from Open Social 0.7 to 0.8, and why sometimes it still makes sense to use Javascript in n

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