June Garage - Social Gaming Dynamics
Submitted by Joshua March on Wed, 17/06/2009 - 4:51am
The June garage is soon upon us - this Thursday evening, at the usual venue of Sun Microsystems, 45 King William St. This week we're focusing on social gaming dynamics - what makes great social games inside facebook, how do you make classic games that go on for years, and how do you apply gaming dynamics to non-gaming applications? On top of our already announced speakers, Karl Bunyan from Social Cash and Alex Fleetwood from Hide & Seek, we'll be joined by: Sam Mathews, founder of Fnatic, one of the world's leading professional video gaming teams, talking about the professional ga
Habbo Hotel's Oisin Lunny to speak tomorrow on monetisation of virtual worlds
Submitted by Joshua March on Wed, 11/02/2009 - 6:17am
Today we confirmed Oisin Lunny, the UK's country manager for Habbo UK, to speak at the Facebook Developer Garage London tomorrow on the monetisation of virtual gifts and worlds. We'll also be looking at the new Facebook APIs on status updates, posted links and video uploads, and what this means for application developers. And buy tickets here! More about Oisin Lunny and Habbo As UK Country Manage
Next Garage - 21st January!
Submitted by Joshua March on Tue, 06/01/2009 - 7:23pm
After what feels like a long break, we're back for the first Facebook Developer Garage of the New Year on 21st Jan. We've got a jam-packed garage, with reports on the latest happenings on the Facebook and MySpace application platforms, Andy McLoughlin from Huddle talking about how they got selected to be a LinkedIn platform launch partner and their experience with LinkedIn compared to Facebook, Cat from Moshi Monsters talking about their experiences with Facebook, Santosh from Twitblogs sharing their experience of launching an Open Social container, and more - as well as free beer, pizza
BBC 'The Box' Flash Game Competition Now OPEN!
Submitted by Joshua March on Sun, 23/11/2008 - 4:36am
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.
November Garage - Speaker Line-up
Submitted by Joshua March on Thu, 30/10/2008 - 5:23pm
This month at the garage, I'll be taking a look at the FaceBook Fund winners, and what this means for the future of Facebook. Also on:
*Why your Apps have broken!
October Garage: Speaker line up here, tickets available now!
Submitted by Joshua March on Fri, 26/09/2008 - 10:32pm
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
Next Garage: September 10th
Submitted by Joshua March on Tue, 02/09/2008 - 7:18pm
TICKETS FOR SALE NOW: http://septembergarage.eventbrite.com/ Join us this month at Sun Microsystems, King William St as: * We listen to Steve Ford from Channel Four as he gives us his Client perspective * Max Niederhofer from Atlas ventures informs us on Financing and finding those Facebook apps that "If you build it, they will come" * Martine Parry from Apply Group gives us some lessons from the ga
Running list for Wednesday!
Submitted by Joshua March on Tue, 08/07/2008 - 12:51pm
The July Facebook developer garage for London is on Wednesday evening.
Ashley Ward to speak at July event
Submitted by Toby Beresford on Tue, 20/05/2008 - 4:10pm
Just confirmed Ashley Ward from European Leadership Programme is going to speak at the July 9th event. Topic is likely to be "How to get funding for your Facebook app" www.european-leaders.com
