Wednesday, Oct 10th, 2007 F8 - The Facebook Development Platform

F8 - The Facebook Development Platform

Facebook.com is growing crazily. Figures released in Jun 2007 boasted a 270% growth rate over 12 months. The number of registrants is well in excess of 50 million after only three years of being live. It is rumoured that there are more photos on Facebook than on Flickr - the web's leading photography site. Significantly, over 50% of users log in on average at least once a day -
you may well be one of them.

Why? Because Facebook is a social networking site. It keeps friends up to date with friends. A core suite of applications to update your social network with news, share photos and organize events keeps you coming back.

So why is this of interest to you as a Java programmer?

The answer is F8, the Facebook Developer Platform - a new frontier for web apps. With the Facebook Java API you can create your own applications that tap into this vast user base - for fun or profit. The viral growth pattern of Facebook's social networking model could see your application being used by thousands or even millions of users in next to no time.

What does this new platform look like? How can you leverage your skills to take advantage of it? What makes a good Facebook app?

Alan Biggs will get you up and running in the space of about an hour at October's CJUG Presentation.

Now all you need is an idea...


Speaker Bio

Alan Biggs is a software development consultant specializing in GUIs and Usability. Alan has been involved in diverse projects including the Calgary Flames web site, GIS mapping, the Graffiti 2 demo applet for Palm Inc., and enterprise applications at Hewlett-Packard. He is currently a consultant with the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) working on both thin and rich client Java apps. As an undergraduate, Alan was awarded 'Young Software Designer of the Year', and holds a BSc in Computer Science (Software Engineering). He has had articles published in user group magazines and international technical journals.

Details:

Wednesday, Oct 10th, 2007
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Fifth Ave Place
West Tower
2nd floor conference room (Northwest corner)
237 - 4th Avenue Southwest