Review: Facebook Developers Garage

• Posted by Steve Spencer

Article posted on Aug 10

Last night Phil Burns pulled together a Facebook developers garage.  There were about fifteen folks in attendance, and I have to say that the amount of intelligence in that room was overwhelming.  I hope you’ll forgive me for not listing out names of the folks involved and attending, and linking over to them, but honestly the crowd was so sharp that I would have to link to each and every one of them… and rather than risk missing one or two I will have to err on the side of brevity.

This was the start of what is intended as an ongoing forum for the growth, knowledge sharing, brianstorming, and networking of those in the valey involved in, or interested in Facebook.

I think the really important part here is “interested in.”  The meeting last night was amazing.  I cannot believe how much I learned (I still have information leaking out my ears because my brain can’t hold it all.)  But there is a crowd of people who were not at the event who I would suggest would derive a lot of value… The room was filled with people who know, believe in, and use Facebook.  But I think it is just as important for those who don’t.  If you choose not to buy into the hype, or you choose not to use a technology, at least know what it is, understand what it is you’re not using and why.  Also, this lets you see what you didn’t know… are there applications for it that you did not consider?  Or is it headed in a direction that may be of value to you or your customers one day.

It’s great to believe in a technology.  It’s nice to be able to disagree wit a technology.  But it really sucks to say have to say, “That isn’t worth looking at… everybody says so… but I don’t know why.”

I’ll pencil you in for the next event

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