Facebook F8 Engineers Hackathon Dream
Published by Rodney Rumford July 18th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.What does facebook want to see in the form of new applications? Next week there is big facebook f8 event in SF. What happens when you bring together a bunch of coders, load them up with energy drinks and let the creative juices fly… New Cool Facebook Apps.
Some Ideas from the Facebook Engineers…
Biz Productivity
Facebook Context on other websites
Location Based Services
More Utility & Sharing
Shared Profiles
Facebook Connect
This year’s f8 event will also feature an 8-hour Hackathon for all f8 attendees. During this year’s Hackathon, you will have the chance focus on hacking the new platform interfaces like the Profile Publisher, App Tabs, and Feed Stories. If you have any questions or need assistance, facebook will have dozens of engineers at your disposal to help you. Because they want you to follow a more normal sleep schedule than the Facebook engineers swear by, the Hackathon won’t last all night long, and instead will be held from 3pm till 11pm.
They will be giving away prizes as well. I will be there filming the festivities and reporting what we see. The event is sold out and looks like it will be an amazing event.
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We’ve just been given permission from Facebook to announce that we’re going to be live-streaming the keynotes to London, for developers over here who can’t make the whole event:
http://logicode.dnsalias.org/~tomgallagher/facebook_garage/?p=25
Our normal host, Toby, will be in F8 but the rest of us will be able to join in here!
Josh