Creative Vibrations ® » Vikas Gupta http://creativevibrations.com/blog Frequency Response and Overtones ™ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:15:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Facebook Developers Garage http://creativevibrations.com/blog/facebook-developers-garage http://creativevibrations.com/blog/facebook-developers-garage#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:59:10 +0000 peterjeshua http://creativevibrations.com/blog/?p=371 I had a fun evening tonight at the FB Dev Garage in the San Francisco Hyatt Regency near the Embarcadero. You know you’re in the right place when a Ukrainian sits down in the seat next to you and you happen to sell Ukrainian Folk Music! It’s true!

Overall, it was a great event and networking opportunity. I’m really excited about Facebook Connect now that I now what it’s all about and I’m going to start using social analytic service Kontagent first thing tomorrow at work! Here’s a full list of speakers from the night. It would be interesting to take a class with Andreas Weigend in the future. He “gets it”.

  • Albert Lai (Kontagent,co-founder/CEO), Intros
  • 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
  • Jia Shen (co-founder/CTO RockYou) – Metrics of notifications
  • 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, Former 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
  • Michael Hart (Netflix) – Netflix Facebook Connect Metrics

FB Dev Garage

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