Social Developers London returns on our regular monthly night (second Wednesday). You may know us as Facebook Developer Garage London - we're the same people putting on the same great events, at our new venue at Central Working in Google Campus (close to Old Street, Shoreditch High Street, Moorgate and Liverpool Street stations), right in the heart of London's digital and start-up hub, Silicon Roundabout.

Our guest talks include Five Smoking Hot Social Campaigns: The Brands Getting it Very Right, by Toby Margetts and Charlie Lyons from agency Beyond, and Chris Connell from Conjure will be telling us about launching Mixer (a social mobile application that connects people through open conversation in their local area) - what worked and what didn't.

Committee member and Facebook application developer Eamonn Gahan will take us through all the important Facebook platform updates since our last event, freelance developer and our secretary Dave Nattriss will cover the hottest apps and pages on Facebook, and starting everything off, SDL Chairman and host for the evening Todd Chaffee will give us a quick update on general Facebook and other social platform news. The talks will begin at 7pm, and we will announce more of them as soon as possible.

We’ll also have our now regular 'show and share' section later on where you can give a quick talk/demo about whatever you’ve been working on - just sign up on the board at the front of the talk room to share anything Facebook or social media related with the audience. You can talk for up to two minutes, and can show slides from your computer if you’ve got a VGA connection, or use a browser on ours.

Couldn't make it last time or never been before? Here's a quick video report giving you a flavour of the event - there's much more information (including video recordings and slides from most of the talks) here on our website:

Our events often sell out within days, so be quick to buy your ticket(s). We'll go for after-drinks at The Windmill around the corner for those that want to wind down afterwards.

Tickets are available at http://sdljanuary2013-websiteeventdescription.eventbrite.co.uk - you must buy in advance to guarantee entry on the night. All tickets are priced at just £5, which includes pizza that will be served during the evening. A cash bar will be available for alcoholic and soft drinks.

If you miss out on or can't make this one, we look forward to seeing you at our next event, taking place in February.

As always we are grateful for the sponsorship of our events - thanks to our new venue sponsors Central Working. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring us, please contact us for more information.

Social Developers London returns on our new monthly night (second Wednesday). You may know us as Facebook Developer Garage London - we're the same people putting on the same great events, at our new venue at Central Working in Google Campus (close to Old Street, Shoreditch High Street, Moorgate and Liverpool Street stations), right in the heart of London's digital and start-up hub, Silicon Roundabout.

Our guest talks this time come from Craig Blagg, creative technologist at Ogilvy & Mather, who will tell us about his experiences of using Facebook video and Angus Fox, former organiser of London Twitter Developer Nest and now an SDL committee member, who will run down the latest Twitter API changes: how developers can adapt to new restrictions and what it means for third party apps. Folks from Twilio will also be present to give us a live demo of the API to their useful telephony service.

Committee member and Facebook application developer Eamonn Gahan will take us through all the important Facebook platform updates since our last event, freelance developer and our secretary Dave Nattriss will cover the hottest apps and pages on Facebook, and starting everything off, SDL Chairman and host for the evening Todd Chaffee will give us a quick update on general Facebook and other social platform news. The talks will begin at 7pm, with a break halfway through for food, drink and networking.

We’ll have our now regular 'show and share' section later on where you can give a quick talk/demo about whatever you’ve been working on - just sign up on the board at the front of the talk room to share anything Facebook or social media related with the audience. You can talk for up to two minutes, and can show slides from your computer if you’ve got a VGA connection, or use a browser on ours.

Our events often sell out within days, so be quick to buy your ticket(s). We'll go for after-drinks at The Windmill around the corner for those that want to wind down afterwards.

Tickets are available at http://sdlnovember2012-websiteeventdescription.eventbrite.co.uk - you must buy in advance to guarantee entry on the night. All tickets are priced at just £5, which includes pizza that will be served during the evening. A cash bar will be available for alcoholic and soft drinks.

If you miss out on or can't make this one, we look forward to seeing you at our next event, taking place in January.

As always we are grateful for the sponsorship of our events - thanks to our new venue sponsors Central Working. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring us, please contact us for more information.

Our next regular event in 2012 takes place on Wednesday 21st March, back at our regular venue in the Freemasons' Hall (close to Holborn, Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Temple stations).

Roger Warner, Chairman at the DMA UK Social Media Council, will be telling us what social media can learn from Mad Men, and we'll also hear from Caroline Howes, Chief Operations Office at Playmob, on how social games can engage players with premium content. As usual, Iskandar Najmuddin from Syncapse will get us up to date with the latest Facebook platform updates since our last event in February.

Freelance developer and our secretary Dave Nattriss will cover the hottest apps and pages on Facebook, and starting everything off, FDGL Chairman and host for the evening Todd Chaffee will give us a quick update on general Facebook news.

We’ll have our new ‘show and share’ section later on where you can give a quick talk/demo about whatever you’ve been working on - just sign up on the board at the front of the talk room to share anything Facebook or social media related with the audience. You can talk for up to two minutes, and can show slides from your computer if you’ve got a VGA connection, or use a browser on ours.

Our events often sell out within days, so be quick to buy your ticket(s). We'll have beer, wine, juice and pizza, possibly some Facebook swag, and will go for after-drinks at O'Neills across the road for those that want to wind down afterwards.

Tickets are available at http://fdglmarch2012-websiteeventdescription.eventbrite.co.uk - you must buy in advance to guarantee entry on the night. Earlybird tickets are available until Friday before the event, subject to quota.

If you miss out on or can't make this one, we look forward to seeing you at our next event, due to take place on Thursday 10th May 2012.

As always we are grateful for the sponsorship of our events - thanks to our regular sponsors Gamaroff Digital, and our media partner Keyone Productions. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring us, please e-mail for more information.

We're pleased to announce our February event will be held on the Thursday 16th as part of Social Media Week (SMW) London 2012 and interactive studio, Specialmoves is proudly sponsoring, along with our regular sponsors Accel and Gamaroff Digital. This month we're at Glaziers Hall on the Southbank by London Bridge (instead of our regular Covent Garden venue).

Our guest speakers this month are Roshan Singh, Head of Social Design at Gamaroff Digital who will discuss Social Design in Facebook Apps, and Gavin Clark, Head of Flash at Specialmoves, will cover his experiences wrestling with personalised videos on Facebook. Taras Filatov will also speak about location, chat and ratings APIs.

As usual Iskandar Najmuddin, Technical Director at Syncapse, will get us up to speed with his not-to-be-missed what's new on the Facebook platform rundown, Dave Nattriss, a freelance developer and secretary of the FDGL committee will tell us what's hot on Facebook, and Todd Chaffee, CEO of Bluecrow and FDGL chairman will host the evening and talk about recent Facebook news. We're also continuing with our new 'Show and Share' section where anyone at the event can take to the stage for up to two minutes to quickly talk about something relevant they've been working on, or even just throw an idea or question out to the audience - sign up on the night.

Our events often sell out within days, so be quick to buy your ticket(s). We'll have beer, wine, juice and pizza, possibly some swag, and may go for after-drinks at the Mudlark across the road for those that want to wind down afterwards.

Tickets are available at http://fdglfebruary2012-websiteeventdescription.eventbrite.co.uk - you must buy in advance to guarantee entry on the night. Earlybird tickets are available until Friday before the event, subject to quota.

If you miss out on or can't make this one, we look forward to seeing you at our next event, taking place on Wednesday 21st March 2012.

As always we are grateful for the sponsorship of our events - thanks to our sponsors Accel, Gamaroff Digital and Specialmoves. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring us, please

We're pleased to announce our first regular event of 2012, taking place on Wednesday 18th January, at our regular venue in the Freemasons' Hall (close to Holborn, Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Temple stations).

We'll have some great speakers - Bernie Hogan, a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute will be talking about network and networking visualisations, and Nick Jones, involved with three government organisations, will discuss their digital communications. A must-see for developers, Iskandar Najmuddin from Syncapse will get us up to date with the latest Facebook platform updates since our last event in November.

Our chairman Todd will give a talk on developing Facebook Timeline applications, Freelance developer Dave Nattriss will cover the hottest apps and pages on Facebook, and starting everything off, as our host for the evening Todd will give us a quick update on general Facebook news.

We’ll have a new ‘show and share’ section later on where you can give a quick talk/demo about whatever you’ve been working on - just sign up on the board at the front of the talk room to share anything Facebook or social media related with our audience tonight. You can talk for up to two minutes, and can show slides from your computer if you’ve got a VGA connection, or use a browser on ours.

Our events often sell out within days, so be quick to buy your ticket(s). We'll have beer, wine, juice and pizza, possibly some Facebook swag, and will go for after-drinks at O'Neills across the road for those that want to wind down afterwards.

Tickets are available at http://fdgljanuary2012-websiteeventdescription.eventbrite.co.uk - you must buy in advance to guarantee entry on the night. Earlybird tickets are available until Friday before the event, subject to quota.

If you miss out on or can't make this one, we look forward to seeing you at our next event, taking place in mid-February 2012.

As always we are grateful for the sponsorship of our events - thanks to our regular sponsors Accel Partners, Gamaroff Digital, Adknowledge and Syncapse, and our media partner Keyone Productions. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring us, please contact us for more information.

We're pleased to announce our next regular event, taking place on Wednesday 16th November, at our regular venue in the Freemasons' Hall (close to Holborn, Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Temple stations).

We've got some great speakers lined up for our last event of the year - Vincent Vergonjeanne from Kobojo (PyramidVille: 1 million monthly active users) will be sharing some invaluable production strategies for social game makers, and for the first time ever we'll be covering public relations and Facebook games thanks to PR expert Vikki Chowney. A must-see for developers, Iskandar Najmuddin from Syncapse will get us up to date with the latest Facebook platform updates, and Geoff Hughes from Social Clay will be sharing best practices for building brands on Facebook.

As usual, freelance developer Dave Nattriss will cover the hottest apps and pages on Facebook, and starting everything off, our host for the evening Todd Chaffee will give us a quick update on general Facebook news. More speakers and talks will be announced as soon as possible.

Our events sell out each time within days, so be quick to buy your ticket(s). We'll have beer, wine, juice and pizza, possibly some Facebook swag, and will go for after-drinks at O'Neills across the road for those that want to wind down afterwards.

Tickets are available at the link below - you must buy in advance to guarantee entry on the night. Earlybird tickets are available until Friday before the event, subject to quota. If you miss out on or can't make this one, we look forward to seeing you at our next event, taking place in mid-January 2012.

As always we are grateful for the sponsorship of our events - thanks to our regular sponsors Accel Partners, Gamaroff Digital, Adknowledge, Syncapse and Conversocial, and our media partner Newspepper. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring us, please contact us for more information.

We're pleased to announce our next regular event, taking place on Wednesday 19th October, back at our regular venue in the Freemasons' Hall (close to Holborn, Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Temple stations).

John Haggis from Sheridan Solicitors returns to speak for us, talking about Facebook's privacy policies, Alex Housley from Rummble will talk about social recommendations using the Facebook Graph and collaborative filtering, and Iskandar Najmuddin, Technical Director at Syncapse (formerly Nudge) will give us a bumper-sized rundown on all the latest platform updates in the last three months, including those announced at f8 2011 in late September.

As usual, we'll have Dave Nattriss, freelance developer and FDGL secretary and webmaster, running down what's hot on Facebook, and an introduction with other Facebook news from Todd Chaffee, FDGL's chairman. More speakers and talks will be announced as soon as possible.

Our events sell out each time within days, so be quick to buy your ticket(s). We'll have beer, wine, juice and pizza, possibly some Facebook swag, and will go for after-drinks at O'Neills across the road for those that want to wind down afterwards.

Tickets are available at http://fdgloctober2011-websiteeventdescription.eventbrite.com/ - you must buy in advance to guarantee entry on the night. Earlybird tickets are available until Friday before the event, subject to quota.

If you miss out on or can't make this one, we look forward to seeing you at our next event, scheduled for Wednesday November 16th.

As always we are grateful for the sponsorship of our events - thanks to our regular sponsors Accel Partners, Gamaroff Digital, Adknowledge, Syncapse, Conversocial and Logicode, and our media partner Newspepper. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring us, please e-mail for more information.

We're pleased to announce our next regular event, taking place on Wednesday 20th July, at our regular venue in the Freemasons' Hall (close to Holborn, Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Temple stations). For July only, the route into Lodge Room 1 will be different, so look out for signs on your way into the building.

The theme for this month is entrepreneurship and starting up, and confirmed speakers are Jakub Nesetril, co-founder of API services company apiary.io, with his start-up accelerator survival guide, Sam Clark, head of apps agency Conjure, covering lessons learnt from building branded apps, and John Haggis from Sheridan Solicitors telling us how lawyers can help set up your company and ensure your app is legal. Simon Cross, a plaform partner engineer at Facebook, will also tell us about cross-platform authentication.

Accel Partners, the venture capital firm behind companies like Facebook, MindCandy, Rovio and Kayak, will be hosting Office Hours at this month's event. Office Hours gives entrepreneurs/developers/technology evangelists the chance to ask Accel personnel relevant questions, ranging from getting feedback on an idea to general business/market advice. There will be four 15 minute slots open to anyone attending our main event, so if you're interested in this specifically, please sign up here: http://ohr.me/nLfBKP

As usual there will be Iskandar Najmuddin, Technical Director at Syncapse (formerly Nudge) briefing us on the latest platform updates, Dave Nattriss, freelance developer and FDGL secretary and webmaster, running down what's hot on Facebook, and an introduction with other Facebook news from Todd Chaffee, FDGL's chairman.

Our events sell out each time within days, so be quick to buy your ticket(s). We'll have beer, wine, juice and pizza, possibly some Facebook swag, and will go for after-drinks at O'Neills across the road for those that want to wind down afterwards.

Tickets are available at http://fdgljuly2011.eventbrite.com - you must buy in advance to guarantee entry on the night. Earlybird tickets are available until Friday before the event, subject to quota.

We'll be taking our annual summer break in August, so if you miss out on or can't make this one, we look forward to seeing you in September.

As always we are grateful for the sponsorship of our events - thanks to our regular sponsors Facebook, Accel Partners, Gamaroff Digital, Adknowledge, Syncapse, Conversocial and Logicode, and our media partner Newspepper. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring us, please e-mail for more information.

We're pleased to announce our next regular event, taking place on Wednesday 15th June, at our regular venue in the Freemasons' Hall (close to Holborn, Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Temple stations).

Confirmed speakers so far are Markus Kobler from distinctiveedge explaining how to get ahead with HTML5 on mobile devices, and Wasim Juned from Abraxor talking about integrating Facebook on iOS.

As usual there will be Iskandar Najmuddin, Technical Director at Syncapse (formerly Nudge) briefing us on the latest platform updates, Dave Nattriss, freelance developer and FDGL secretary and webmaster, running down what's hot on Facebook, and an introduction with Facebook product updates from Todd Chaffee, FDGL's chairman.

Our events sell out each time within days, so be quick to buy your ticket(s). We'll have beer, wine, juice and pizza, possibly some Facebook swag, and will go for after-drinks in a nearby pub/bar.

Tickets are available here - you must buy in advance to guarantee entry on the night. Earlybird tickets are available until Friday before the event, subject to quota.

As always we are grateful for the sponsorship of our events - thanks to our regular sponsors Facebook, Accel Partners, Gamaroff Digital, Adknowledge, Syncapse, Conversocial, Logicode and Joyent, and our media partner Newspepper. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring us, please e-mail for more information.

We're pleased to announce our next regular event, taking place on Wednesday 18th May, at our regular venue in the Freemasons' Hall (close to Holborn, Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Temple stations).

This month's theme is measurement and analytics, and we have talks from David Kramaley from Sharkius Games giving their experiences with Facebook Insights and comparing to their own internal analytics, Heather Stark from Kinran talking about 'understanding your elephant', Aaron Huang from Kontagent on the 'seven deadly social game metrics', Pierre Santamaria from Weka Entertainment on big games versus big data, and Simon Cross who is Platform Partner Engineer for Facebook outside of north America, will discuss their tools for measuring success, and if there's time also run a Q&A session for all Platform related queries you may have.

As usual there will be Iskandar Najmuddin, Technical Director at Syncapse (formerly Nudge) briefing us on the latest platform updates, Dave Nattriss, freelance developer and FDGL secretary and webmaster, running down what's hot on Facebook, and an introduction with Facebook product updates from Geoff Hughes, FDGL's treasurer (stepping in for Todd for this month only).

Our events sell out each time within days, so be quick to buy your ticket(s). We'll have beer, wine, juice and pizza, possibly some Facebook swag, and will go for after-drinks in a nearby pub/bar.

Tickets are available at http://fdglmay2011-websiteeventdescription.eventbrite.com - you must buy in advance to guarantee entry on the night. Earlybird tickets are available until Friday before the event, subject to quota.

As always we are grateful for the sponsorship of our events - thanks to our regular sponsors Facebook, Accel Partners, Gamaroff Digital, IC tomorrow, Adknowledge, Syncapse, Conversocial, Logicode and Joyent, and our media partner Newspepper. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring us, please e-mail for more information.