Popfly, a new tool by Microsoft that enables point and click application development, has been receiving a lot of buzz recently. I had the pleasure to watch Dan Fernandez of Microsoft speak at the Graphing Social Patterns conference a couple weeks ago about Popfly. He gave a pretty entertaining presentation. Now you can enjoy it as well!
Dave McClure has posted a video of Jia Shen speaking Graphing Social Patterns conference last week. Here it is:
Dave McClure just posted the video of Tim O’Reilly’s keynote at the Graphing Social Patterns conference. I previously live-blogged the talk. If you want to see the whole presentation, here is the video:
One of my readers, David Marcus, just sent me a pretty entertaining video that he made. Check it out:
Mitch Kapor is an industry luminary. As Wikipedia states Mitch, “is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the ‘killer application’ often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. He has been at the forefront of the information technology revolution for a generation as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist.”
Mitch appeared at the Community Next to discuss the evolution of platforms. In the video below, Mitch discusses platforms. Unfortunately, I didn’t get all of the slides but if you listen, Mitch describes the slides well so viewing the slides are not necessary.
RockYou is among the top two most popular application development groups. They have applications including XMe, Likeness, Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and others. I had the opportunity to interview Jia Shen, the CTO and co-founder of RockYou back in August. Jia was present at both the Community Next event as well as the Graphing Social Patterns event, both of which I attended last week. Below is a video of him speaking at Community Next about the business of Facebook applications.
I had the pleasure to hang out with Dan Peguine, developer of the Honesty Box application, at the Community Next conference. I covered Honesty Box back at the beginning of June. Since then, the application has gone on to become one of the most popular applications on the site. Below is a video of Dan talking about his experience with the Honesty Box application.
Back at the beginning of June I covered the Free Gifts application. Since then, the application has continued to grow and now has around 350,000 active daily users and over 3.5 million users in total. Many people thought that the Free Gifts application would be banned by Facebook but Facebook has instead embraced the application. Even Facebook employees that I’ve seen speak frequently reference the free gifts application. Below is a video of Zack Allia talking about his experience developing and scaling his application at Community Next.
Keith Schacht and Ben Pollack were two of the developers that worked on building the Grow-A-Gift application. Mark Achler then partnered with Ben Pollack while Keith went off and started his own company. Below is a video of all three of them discussing the Grow-A-Gift application. Check it out!
Joe Winterhalter and Eric Diep developed an immensely popular application called Quizzes. Quizzes does exactly what you would imagine it to do: create custom quizzes. The benefit of this application is that your friends can take the quiz directly from your profile. We hadn’t reviewed this application on here previously. Instead we reviewed another quizzes application that failed to gain as much traction.
If you want to place quizzes on your profile that your firends can take, then this application is for you. Go check out the Quizzes application or listen to Joe and Eric discuss their experience building the application below.
