Google Gadgets & SEO » Facebook http://www.seoish.com Widget strategy, Google Gadgets, iGoogle, and the shifting sands of SEO. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:11:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Open Social and Search Monkey Developers Needed http://www.seoish.com/open-social-and-search-monkey-developers-needed/ http://www.seoish.com/open-social-and-search-monkey-developers-needed/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:04:03 +0000 pat http://www.seoish.com/?p=1007

If you read this blog and you are a developer, you probably should let me know I often have work on neat projects.

I have project work for…

Open Social developers (javascript)

Search Monkey (php / xslt)

Facebook (php)

Be part of some of the most popular and innovative applications on the web.

I should also note that We Build Pages is currently seeking a full time, inhouse Perl developer for Troy, NY.

To find out more leave a comment or email me at gadgets [at] gadzi.com

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Facebook has announced it’s new funding arm of fbFund.

Through this fund Facebook will distribute 10 million dollars to developers of useful apps. There are a couple different ways these funds will go out but I will describe the 2 Million they are giving out in a competition.

A quick run down of how this will work is this:

Nearly $2 million in non-recourse grants will be distributed between two rounds of the competition:

Round I: Identifying talent

Submissions reviewed by Investors, Facebook fbFund Team, Advisory Committee. Facebook will award $25k grants to our top 25 apps.

  • Open for submission: 8/4
  • Due on: 8/29
  • Winners announced: 9/22
What are they judging on?

  1. Originality of Concept

    Does the application introduce a great idea in a new and unexplored area?

  2. Market

    Is this application targeted to key cohorts or meet compelling market needs?

  3. Social/Useful

    Does the application enable people to interact with each other? Does it deliver real value to users (incl. entertainment)?

  4. Expressive

    Does the application allow people to share more information?

  5. Intuitive

    Is the application compelling and easy to use? Does it have a well thought out user experience?

  6. Potential

    Can it be a real business someday?

  7. Team

    Do you believe this team can execute and is driven to succeed?

To learn more see the fbFund page on Facebook.
Also of interest, Facebook is giving more details on their Great Apps progam.
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Facebook has opened up early registration for their developer event, f8.

The f8 ’08 sessions cover three different tracks with four sessions per track. These are actually pretty interesting sounding sessions. Early bird registration is only 150 dollars, to learn more about sessions and registration costs visit the f8 registration page.

This is a one day event so if you are planning on going to SMX Local / Mobile you can pull it off (f8 is the day before SMX). Look at the tracks below for f8, and notice the business and mobile tracks. hmmm.

Track 1: User Experience

Introducing the New Facebook Profile & More
Integrating Facebook Connect into your Website
Building Great Applications on Facebook
Design and User Experience at Facebook

Track 2: Technical

Advanced App Building
Feed and Social Distribution
Building to Facebook Scale
Made for Mobile

Track 3: Business

Building a Business on Facebook / Metrics & Analytics
Marketing your Application on Facebook
Entrepreneurship on Facebook Platform
fbFund: A Look Inside — Seeding Opportunity on Facebook Platform

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