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Facebook Developer Garage Videos

Friday, May 1st, 2009

As promised, here are the videos from the Facebook Developer Garage. We hope you’ll find these videos to be a helpful compliment to the slide shows posted eariler (best view with both blog posts opened side by side).


1. Josh Elman – Facebook Connect – @ Kontagent / Facebook Dev Garage from albert lai on Vimeo.

2. Andreas Weigend – What we can learn from Amazon.com – @ Kontagent / Facebook Dev Garage from albert lai on Vimeo.


3. Justin Smith – Social Gaming Trends – @ Kontagent / Facebook Dev Garage from albert lai on Vimeo.


4. Jeff Tseng – Beyond Viral Metrics – @ Kontagent / Facebook Dev Garage from albert lai on Vimeo.


5. Eric Ries – Engagement Loops 3. Justin Smith – Social Gaming Trends – @ Kontagent / Facebook Dev Garage from albert lai on Vimeo.


6. Andrew Mayer – Casual Gaming Metrics Applied to Social Gaming – @ Kontagent / Facebook Dev Garage from albert lai on Vimeo.


7. Jia Shen – Facebook Notifications Metrics – @ Kontagent / Facebook Dev Garage from albert lai on Vimeo.


8. Vikas Gupta – Virtual Economy Analytics – @ Kontagent / Facebook Dev Garage from albert lai on Vimeo.


9. Michael Hart – Netflix and Facebook Connect – @ Kontagent / Facebook Dev Garage from albert lai on Vimeo.

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Kontagent Facebook Developer Garage SF Recap

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Thanks to everyone who came out last night and to those to watched the stream on ustream.  We’d also like to extend our gratitude to all our speakers who did a awesome job with the presentations as well.  Lastly, we’d like to thank Facebook and Intel for sponsoring and supporting the event.

We’ll be adding content as we collect it, but to kick things off, here are the presentation slides:

Andreas Weigend – Social Data Revolution

What App and Game Developers Can Learn From Amazon.com

Josh Elman – Facebook

Making Your Websites Social with Facebook Connect – SF Facebook Dev Garage 3 25

View more presentations from joshelman.

Justin Smith – Inside Facebook

Justin Smith Fdg Slides

Jeff Tseng – Kontagent

Kontagent Fb Developer Garage Final Jeff

Eric Ries – Lessons Learned Blog

Eric Ries Engagement Loops The Levers And Metrics Of Engagement

View more presentations from Eric Ries.

Andrew Mayer – MediaShifters

Casual gaming metrics applied to social gaming

Jia Shen – RockYou

Facebook Developers Garage March 25 2009 2 Jia Shen

Vikas Gupta – SocialGold

Virtual Economy Analytics

View more presentations from socialgold.

Michael Hart – NetFlix

Netflix And Fb Connect

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Facebook Developer Garage SF, Hosted by Kontagent

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

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We’re extremely excited to announce that we are hosting the upcoming Facebook Developer Garage in SF, sponsored by Intel.

Sign up here!

Topics: Metrics, Social Gaming and fbConnect!

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm

Location: Hyatt Regency San Francisco  map

Street: 5 Embarcadero Center

City/Town: San Francisco, CA

Confirmed Speakers

  • Andreas Weigend (Data Mining Professor at Stanford and Former Chief Scientist at Amazon) – Keynote
  • Eric Ries (Kleiner Perkers, co-founder IMVU) – Metrics for Social Engagement
  • Jeffrey Tseng & Fredric Newberg (Kontagent co-founder/CTO & VP engineering) – Viral tuning beyond conversion + insights across applications
  • Josh Elman (Facebook) – fbConnect on Web & iPhone and others
  • Justin Smith (InsideFacebook, Head of Products at Watercooler) – Social Gaming trends
  • Andrew Mayer (Media Shifters) – Casual gaming metrics applied to social gaming
  • Vikas Gupta (co-founder Jambool) – Virtual Economy Optimization

Overview

This Facebook Developer Garage, co-hosted by Kontagent Ananlytics, will be the first to event of its type to exclusively cover fbConnect, social games and advanced social app metrics. We will reveal some of the development processes and metrics that are behind top multi-million dollar social games. Our lineup of expert speakers include a number of experts in metrics (Dr. Andreas Weigend/Stanford, Erics Ries/Kleiner Perkins, Justin Smith/InsideFacebook, Jeffery Tseng/Kontagent, Vikas Gupta/Jambool, etc.) and successful game developers sharing their insights on how to utilize metrics to increase growth, engagement and monetization of Facebook applications and social games.

This event is open to all developers (social game developers are encouraged to participate), marketing professional and all Facebook enthusiasts. The presentations will be data driven and very actionable. Every developer should be take away something that can be used to change the way they’re developing applications.

There will also for thousands of dollars in prizes, including a draw for premimum passes to web 2.0 expo, and other exclusive prizes to be announced at the event.

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Kontagent Wins Phase-2 FBFund/$250K Grant!

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Congrats to all the winners , and a big thanks to all those that have blogged about the announcement!

This was a result of a ton of hard work from the entire team, and its been a fun process getting here. Thank you for all those that voted, Cat and Julia from the FBfund team, and the judges from the surprisingly enjoyable due diligence discussions from the partners at Accel and FounderFund.

An interesting tid-bit: did you know that the 3 out of the final 5 winners out of the 25 finalists are Canadian (including me and Jeff – both Canucks!). Go Canada! =)

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