5th of August 2009 by conor
Another superb video by Michael Clyne, this time of Colm Long’s talk. The Facebook stats for Ireland are staggering.
Hot Facebook.com Money Making Applications plus U2, XBOX, DS, WII and Facebook Advertising Options presented by Colm Long from Path Pacific on Vimeo.
26th of July 2009 by conor
When Michael Clyne of PathPacific.com offered to record the second Irish Facebook Garage, we had no idea what to expect. It certainly wasn’t this.
Facebook Live Music Mashup App – Gig Monkey (Mobile Phone, Last FM, Bebo, Amazon, iLike, Facebook) – Facebook Garage Ireland from Path Pacific on Vimeo.
Wow, amazing work on the GigMonkey talk Michael. We can’t wait to see the other segments!
p.s. We’re just turned on the Disqus commenting system here. It is much more powerful than the built-in WordPress one, particularly when it comes to showing the distributed conversation on sites like Twitter about your posts. Let us know if you have any problems with it. It syncs with the built-in system so if there are any issues, we can just turn it off.
4th of July 2009 by conor
The first Facebook Garage was so popular we had to have another one pretty soon after. On Thursday we had 150+ people crammed into a room in the Radission SAS to hear 5 speakers talk about different aspects of their experiences with Facebook.
It opened with Sean O’Sullivan from Rococo presenting their GigMonkey App. Plenty of technical meat in there about the various challenges they faced and some interesting comparisons with Bebo.
Robert Mao then gave a broad overview of build FB Apps/Connect and hosting them on Google App Engine.
I spoke about our integration of Facebook Connect into the LouderVoice reviews widget.
After the break, Flavien Charlon took everyones breath away with his description of the growth of My City. He currently has close to 500k active monthly users on this Facebook App. His talk covered everything from technical issues to growing a userbase and monetizing.
Finally Colm Long who runs Facebook EMEA gave us an insight into where Facebook was going, theeir approach to ads and the shocking growth figures for Facebook in Ireland. One important point that he highlighted was what a small company Facebook is (~900 people). So when development slows in one area e.g. Groups, it is only because they are resource strapped.
Michael Clyne took video footage of the entire event which we hope to post here next week. If you have any photos or videos, please post links to them in the comments.
23rd of June 2009 by conor
After the resounding success of the first Facebook Garage here, it’s about time we had another.
The theme this time is “Hands on with Apps, Connect and Pages”
It’s a super line-up of speakers:
The event is on in The Digital Exchange, Crane Street, Dublin (other side of High Street from Hub) from 4pm-6pm, Thursday 2nd July.
Whilst it is a free event, you must register over on Eventbrite.
12th of May 2009 by admin
After the first Facebook Garage Ireland – which was very successful we’re planning another one for June
A recent venturebeat article stated “Facebook platform developers could see $500M in revenue this year” and with over 200 million+ users worldwide – plenty of opportunities exist for Irish entrepreneurs.
We're putting the call out – for folks who want to do a quick talk on
- Facebook Application – do show and tell
- Facebook Connect
- Facebook APIs
- Marketing with Facebook
Let us know – by Sunday May 24th – if you want to participate
web2ireland DOT editor AT gmail DOT com
Stay tuned for details on date, venue, time, etc.
1st of May 2009 by admin
On Earth Day April 22nd – Edenbee released a new Facebook application whereby users set, adopt and share goals for a more sustainable life.
To assist Edenbee provides a product or service to assist them with that goal. If they follow through on suggestion Edenbee donates 50% of the transaction fee to an NGO of their choice. The NGO’s that we are promoting address the policy areas of Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Climate Change, Equality and Poverty
Edenbee are active in both UK and US with companies like The Ethical Superstore, Good Energy, Eco-tricity, Howies and many more signing up alongside major NGO’s such as WWF, Greenp International and Oxfam
You can access the facebook app at http://apps.facebook.com/edenbee
19th of March 2009 by admin
Facebook recently announced their new
The fbFund is a $10 million seed fund managed by Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook.
After the recent Facebook Developer Garage Ireland we should see plenty of entries from Ireland.
24th of February 2009 by conor
Facebook in Ireland is exploding in popularity; 400k+ users at last count. But it’s not just the number of punters that is growing, so too is the development community.
We are genuinely excited therefore to announce Ireland’s first Facebook Developer Garage, brought to you by Web2Ireland on march 5th in the Digital Exchange in Dublin.
The Garages are just like they sound a place to explore, get gritty, tinker, experiment, and test out ideas for Facebook Platform. We also want to use it as an opportunity for the Irish FB developer community to network and learn from each other. See the London site to get an idea of what they are all about.
If you are interested in presenting what you are working on in Facebook or giving a demo, just email web2ireland.editor@gmail.com
Please RSVP on Facebook if you are attending in any capacity. This is a completely free event and we are very appreciative of the support being provided by Facebook themselves.
We will have some further very exciting news about the Garage in the next two weeks.
And if that’s not enough for you, Web2Ireland is also hosting a mini-workshop on API Wars and Opportunities before the Garage. See the next blog post!
5th of January 2009 by conor
We’ve just turned-on support for Facebook Connect on this blog. It enables you to comment here using your Facebook credentials and also to optionally send your comments from here to your Facebook profile.
To make use of it, simply login to Facebook using the Widget in the right-hand sidebar. Then when you comment on a post, you’ll be doing so as your Facebook identity.
Whilst we remain big fans of standards like OpenID, the simple fact remains that the implementations are non-intuitive, the plugins are flakey and the uptake has been tiny. Connect is instant portable identity for a much bigger demographic.
We were hugely impressed with Dave Morin’s presentation of Connect at Le Web. I hope we can get him over to Ireland at some stage to tell us more. Any chance Ryan will get him over for FOWA Dublin?
Full instructions on enabling Facebook Connect on WordPress Blogs are here.
16th of December 2008 by admin
I had a pleasure of attending LeWeb last week – and here are the top 10 takeaways
Meeting Irish in attendance
Very low Irish presence – Pat Phelan from Maxroam, Conor O’Neill from Loudervoice [who also covered event for ReadwriteWeb]
- Brian Bastible and colleagues from IDA
Connecting with People
Lots of great folks attending from the US, UK, Germany, France and Spain.
Old School is best school
Got to meet and chat with Dennis, Doc and JP.
Glimpse of future
Dave Morin – facebook connect, Marissa Mayer – Google, and Susan Wu – Virtual Goods
Startups – no Irish… come on !!
Startup Competition – some interesting startups – and very worthy winner – some Web2Ireland companies would have done well at this event….
Failure – true stories
Morten Lund was one highlight of the event – off the cuff – very honest in his story.
Funding is hard in Europe
Lots of VCs in attendance [none from Ireland] – and the VC panel was interesting – see video. Key themes – build products that VCs will use [Fred Wilson, Martin Varsasky, Jeff Clavier] – and they don’t really believe Govt intervention @ funding is key [more on that later] – and NO doesnt mean NO.
Go Big or Go Home
Lots of usual talk @ valley versus Europe and can we build a big European web company.
Annual LeWeb bitch fight
Great fun from the sideline
Next Year
Rumour has it that the International D Conference will happen in Dublin next year
And no doubt LeWeb 09 will be another enjoyable event.
