Presentations:

• Facebook Platform and Applications, by Dave Morin from Facebook (we were informed that Dave will not be able to make it due to a conflict, but Facebook promised that a senior engineer will fill in instead).
• Incorporating your startup, and other legal details, by Chris field from Orrick.
• Going from Zero to 1 Million Page Views in One Month, by Siqi Chen (App: Friends for Sale).
• How I reached 5M installs, Nicolas Kokkalis (App: Who’s your perfect match)
• Promoting and Monetizaing Facebook Apps, by KW Low (App: My Heros Abilities).
• Flex on Facebook: Flex Apps on FB Platform, by Alex Notov, founder Shockapps, and editor at Startupism.

Panels:

• Micropayments in Facebook: as a revenue source and to simplify personal transactions.

Gifts and Giveaways

• One copy of Adobe Creative Suite bundle to the lucky winner from the Designer s Team. Your choice of Web Premium, Design Premium or Production Premium (retail price $999).
• 2 Copies of Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro (retail $699 when it launches) to the lucky winners. Gifts from Adobe.
• Free dinner, courtesy of our sponsors.

Sunday Night Extravaganza

• Super fast demos of applications launched in the weekend.
• Developers share their learned lessons.
• Final celebration.

Date and Time:

The weekend of February 22nd - 24th, 2008.

Friday 6:00pm - 12:00 am
Saturday 9:00am - 12:00am
Sunday 9:00am - 12:00am

Friday:
- Getting together and organization. It’s about the community, know the other teams and make new friends.
- Quick presentations to get things started.
- 7:00 pm Facebook
- 8:00 pm Nicolas Kokkalis
- 9:00 pm Chris Field
- Start coding

Saturday:
- Every 3 hours:

- Team status updates about development progress.
- Lightning Presentation (10 minutes) about development, UI advice, viral features, and good practices.

- Teams aim to release first draft of their apps by 9:00pm to have time for debugging before they day ends.

- Presentations:
- 3:00 PM Alex Notov

Sunday:
- Every 3 hours:

- Team status updates about traffic and user feedback.
- Lightning Presentations (scaling, monetization, user experience)

- Organize cross-promotion efforts.
- Cross-team activities for socializing and to sharing experiences.
- 8:00 pm Demos of launched apps & lessons learned
- 9:00 pm Micropayment on Facebook panel

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