Facebook development garage @ Madrid
Last Monday I went to the event Madrid facebook developers garage in Teatro Lara where it was introduced the spanish version of facebook to the Spanish companies and developers. This was the first garage in Madrid and as I expected, it was more a general presentation than a kitchen for developers. Not a single recipe about how to develop anything. Nevertheless, It was interesting, the theater was crowded with developers and entrepeneurs and there were several “big guys” of the Spanish’s Internet I’ve seen in other events.
Javier Olivan, of facebook (maybe the only spanish guy there?)
After the general presentation a bunch of local businesses introduced several applications. One of them interesting and very well localizated (la porra) and others losing the main point of Facebook. While in Canada I installed the facebook developer application and I read a bit of the documentation. It’s easy to build “something” making use of the viral marketing so it’s possible that I will burn some time playing with the platform in the following months.
Martin Varsavsky speaking about facebook and of course fon. If we owe something to Martin is his insistence in making visible the Spanish bussinesses in Silicon valley and the rest of the world.
I don’t know how important will be facebook in Spain but maybe they arrived a bit late. Now there are several facebook clones and at least one of them (tuenti) is almost a exact clone of the facebook’s core applications from the user pointview. However Tuenti don’t have as much users as facebook and more important, they don’t have the cool API for developers facebook has, which can be something that move the scale to facebook’s side the second the spanish teenagers discover all the stupid crap games facebook has in their application directory.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:45 am
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