Last night, 12 teams started brainstorming ideas for a Facebook app that will be launched within 24 hours. After teams pitched their ideas last night, I went home thinking that I may witness the birth of the next great Facebook app by the time I wake up!

It’s Saturday morning at 10AM and I heard that some teams were working til 4AM this morning. At 10:30AM, a few teams gave an update on their status.

• “Dark and Stormy night” App: They have three developers working on it. They are using PHP and not sure if they can launch tonight. The advice to them was ‘reduce your feature set’.
• “Badges for aspects of Personality” App: Users give themselves descriptions such as “coder” or “scientist” which act as badges. When your friends vouch for your descriptions, the badges will be upgraded to indicate the truthfulness. The group is still working on the framework. When asked if they can launch tonight, they said, “ask us in a few hours.”
• Hitchhiker App: The team is still working on some unknowns.
• Social Match App: This team seems very close to completion. FBML and other parts are completed.
• “Giving a painting that reveals itself” App: This is app is similar to “Growing Gifts”. You give a friend a painting or some art that reveals sections of itself over time.
• “Promote Peace” App: Still working on it. It’s the team’s first experience building a Facebook app.
• Messaging App: The one man team found a developer in Argentina to help work on the project.
• “Deface Baby” App: Hope to launch tonight.

We will hear from other teams that will show up later today.

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