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Kontagent Facebook Developer Garage SF Recap

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Thanks to everyone who came out last night and to those to watched the stream on ustream.  We’d also like to extend our gratitude to all our speakers who did a awesome job with the presentations as well.  Lastly, we’d like to thank Facebook and Intel for sponsoring and supporting the event.

We’ll be adding content as we collect it, but to kick things off, here are the presentation slides:

Andreas WeigendSocial Data Revolution

Josh ElmanFacebook

Justin SmithInside Facebook

Jeff TsengKontagent

Eric RiesLessons Learned Blog

Andrew MayerMediaShifters

Jia ShenRockYou

Vikas GuptaSocialGold

Michael HartNetFlix

Facebook Developer Garage SF, Hosted by Kontagent

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

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We’re extremely excited to announce that we are hosting the upcoming Facebook Developer Garage in SF, sponsored by Intel.

Sign up here!

Topics: Metrics, Social Gaming and fbConnect!

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm

Location: Hyatt Regency San Francisco  map

Street: 5 Embarcadero Center

City/Town: San Francisco, CA

Confirmed Speakers

  • 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
  • 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, 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

Overview

This Facebook Developer Garage, co-hosted by Kontagent Ananlytics, will be the first to event of its type to exclusively cover fbConnect, social games and advanced social app metrics. We will reveal some of the development processes and metrics that are behind top multi-million dollar social games. Our lineup of expert speakers include a number of experts in metrics (Dr. Andreas Weigend/Stanford, Erics Ries/Kleiner Perkins, Justin Smith/InsideFacebook, Jeffery Tseng/Kontagent, Vikas Gupta/Jambool, etc.) and successful game developers sharing their insights on how to utilize metrics to increase growth, engagement and monetization of Facebook applications and social games.

This event is open to all developers (social game developers are encouraged to participate), marketing professional and all Facebook enthusiasts. The presentations will be data driven and very actionable. Every developer should be take away something that can be used to change the way they’re developing applications.

There will also for thousands of dollars in prizes, including a draw for premimum passes to web 2.0 expo, and other exclusive prizes to be announced at the event.