@@ -1,259 +1,259 @@ -title: Why Facebook Matters - Stats, Numbers, Web OS vs. Desktop OS, News -gradient-colors: #0e1f5b #3b5998 - - -h1. Facebook Profile Questions - Ice Breakers - -* Are you on Facebook? -* How many apps have you installed on Facebook? Zero? Less than Five? Five+? Ten+? -* Name your two top (recommended) Facebook apps -* Why? Fun? Utility? Other? - -* Have you already developed a Facebook app? In PHP, Ruby, Java, C#.NET, Python? - -Sample: - -* No / Zero -* Fifty+ / Pirate vs. Ninja, What Disney Princess Are You? / Fun -* Five+ / WordPress, Twitter / Utility - - -h1. What's Facebook? - -* Facebook is "Addictive" -* Facebook is "So, Distracting, Companies Must Ban It" -* Facebook is "God's Gift to Developers" -* Facebook is "Nirvana for Direct Marketers" -* Facebook is the first "Word of Mouse" Engine -* Facebook is "Bloomberg Terminal for Your Life" -* Facebook is the "Lowest Cost Customer Acquisition Vehicle on the Planet" - -Source: Adonomics - Why Facebook Is Worth $100 Billion - - -h1. Facebook Stats - -* More than 70+ million active users -* More than 200,000+ new registrations/day since January 2007 -* Users spend on average 20 minutes/day on Facebook (Source: comScore) -* #1 photo sharing site on the Web (Source: comScore) -* More than 14 million photos uploaded/day -* More than 6 million active user groups - -Source: "Facebook Statistics":http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics - - -h1. Canadian Facebook Stats - -More than 8+ million Facebookers (top outside the US followed by 8+ in the UK) - -Metros/Networks - -* Greater Toronto Metro, Ontario - 1,161,114 Facebookers -* Greater Vancouver Metro, British Columbia - 703,382 Facebookers -* Greater Montreal Metro, Quebec - 591,215 Facebookers -* Greater Calgary Metro, Alberta - 383,558 Facebookers - -Canadian University Networks - -* University of British Columbia (UBC) - 31,595 Facebookers -* Simon Fraser University (SFU) - 24,142 Facebookers -* University of Victoria (UVic) - 16,416 Facebookers -* University of Toronto (UofT) - 57,360 Facebookers - -Source: "Facebook Networks":http://www.facebook.com/networks/networks.php (Apr/14/2008) - - -h1. Facebook vs. MySpace - -Facebook: - -* One Person - One Profile (No Multiple Personas Allowed) -* No Fake or Anonymous Profiles Allowed - -MySpace (100+ Million Profiles): - -* One Spam King - 500,000 MySpace Profiles -* Fake and Anonymous Profiles Allowed - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Chair, Butter, etcetera - - - -h1. Facebook Apps - -* 20,000+ apps -* 100+ new apps/day added -* More than 95% of Facebookers installed (and used) at least one Facebook app - -Top Categories - -* Just for Fun Applications (9000+) - Top Friends, Movies, Likeness, Scrabulous, Graffiti, Vampires -* Gaming (2400+) - Scrabulous, Texas HoldEm Poker, (fluff)Friends, PetrolHead, Oregon Trail, WarBook -* Sports Applications (1900+) - Sport Bets, Hockey Pool, Premier League Picks, Toronto Maple Leafs Fans -* Utility Applications (1800+) - Bumper Sticker, Advanced Wall, Cities I've Visited, Where I've Been, Books iRead - -More Categories - -Education (1600+), Dating (1500+), Music (1100+), Events (900+), Business (900+), Money (300+) and many more - -Source: "Facebook Application Catalog":http://www.facebook.com/apps - -h1. Best of the West - Top Facebook Apps Made in British Columbia - -# Scratch and Win (Backstage) / 449,900 / 71,984 (16%) -# Hockey Pool (Ben Nevile) / 347,793 / 48,691 (14%) -# Are You Normal? (Kinzin) / 572,300 / 5,723 (1%) -# I'm Reading (Garth Shoemaker) / 61,400 / 614 (1%) -# Hockey Pool Pro (Jason Bailey, $uper Rewards) / 20,300 / 203 (1%) -# The Snow Report (Jeremy Holland and Dean Halford ) / 18,200 / 182 (1%) -# Eat-A-Rama (ActiveState) / 17,800 / 30 (0%) -# Green Gifts (Social Signal) / 7,400 / 74 (1%) -# These Are My Kids (Kinzin) / 4,200 / 126 (3%) -# Mixx Maker (Project Opus/Donat Group) / 1,000 / 20 (2%) - -Source: "Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 (3.0) Developer Group":http://vanajax.com - -"Adonomics Chart - Scratch and Win / Are You Normal? / Hockey Pool":http://adonomics.com/display/5274916578+2389617504+5173067945 - - -h1. Facebook Developers - -* More than 300,000+ Facebook Developers World Wide -* Vancouver Facebook (& Social Network) Developers Group (200+) - -Facebook Developer Garage Events Around the World: - -San Francisco, New York, Boston, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Singapore, Sydney - and in many more cities (Source: Facebook Developer Garage Calendar) - -* "Vancouver's 1st Facebook Developer Garage":http://barcamp.org/FacebookCampVancouver2007 -* "Vancouver's 2nd Facebook Developer Garage":http://barcamp.org/FacebookCampVancouver2008 - - -h1. Facebook App Analytics / Stats - Adonomics Leaderboard - -* There are 886,320,511 installs across 21,822 apps on Facebook with over 200,000 developers currently evaluating the platform. -* These applications were used 34,175,797 times in the last 24 hours and have a combined valuation of $428,182,197.. - -h3. Top Facebook Applications - -"Adonomics Facebook Application Leaderboard":http://adonomics.com/leaderboard/apps - -Metrics: - -* Installs -* Active Users (%) -* Valuation (Estimated) in $$$ - - -h1. Graphical OS vs. Social OS - -Windows OS vs. Facebook OS / Desktop OS vs Web OS - -h3. Founders - -Harvard drop-out and his former roommate -vs. -Harvard drop-out and his former roommate - -h3. Initial Launch - -1984 vs. 2004 - -h3. Critical Mass Achieved - -1995 vs. 2007 - -h3. Competitors - -Digital Research's GEM, IBM's OS/2 Presentation Manager, VisiCorp's VisiON, Sun xWindows, Apple's Mac - -vs. - -MySpace, LinkedIn, Orkut, Friendster, OpenSocial - - -h3. Focus - -* Windows SDK à Developers / Developers / Developers!!! -* 80,000 employees -* 4+ million 3rd party developers - -vs. - -* F8 Platform à Developers / Developers / Developers!!! -* 450 employees -* 200,000+ 3rd party developers - -h3. Lock-in - -OEM PC companies bundled Windows; Developers' apps and API knowledge; Consumer investment in apps, file system and user interface - -vs. - -Consumer investment in Profile Data, Notes, Photos, e-Mail history, Groups, Apps, and Friend Network; developers' apps and API knowledge - -h3. Killer Apps - -Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook, Browser - -vs. - -Photos, Events, Friends, Newsfeed, Inbox, Groups, Profile Page -Calendar, Dining, Travel, Gifting, Shopping, Turn-based Games, Super Groups - - -Source: Adonomics - Why Facebook is Worth $100 Billion - - - -h1. Web Site Registration vs. Facebook App Install - -h3. User Actions Required to Accomplish Registration - -Select Registration Button, Enter E-mail, Enter & Re-Enter Password, Enter other app related profile data - -vs. - -Select Add Application, Select Continue - -h3. Source of New Users - -Cost Per Click Advertising (typically $0.25 to $1.00 to get a visitor), Cost Per Impression Advertising, Search Engine Optimization, PR, Offline Advertising, Blogs - -vs. - -Friend Invites, Friend Newsfeeds - - -h3. Site Reminders - -Bookmarking (<1%) -vs. -Profile page - -h3. Post Registration Marketing Methods - -e-mail - -vs. - -e-mail, newsfeed, profile page, friends' interactions - -h3. Hurdles to Re-using Site/App - -Remember e-mail/password -vs. -Find app/icon on Profile Page and Click - -Source: Adonomics - Why Facebook is Worth $100 Billion - -h1. Tracking Facebook News - -Facebook Blogs/News - -* "All Facebook Blog":http://allfacebook.com -* "Inside Facebook Blog":http://insidefacebook.com - -Facebook Blogs/News in and around Vancouver, B.C. - +title: Why Facebook Matters - Stats, Numbers, Web OS vs. Desktop OS, News +gradient-colors: #0e1f5b #3b5998 + + +h1. Facebook Profile Questions - Ice Breakers + +* Are you on Facebook? +* How many apps have you installed on Facebook? Zero? Less than Five? Five+? Ten+? +* Name your two top (recommended) Facebook apps +* Why? Fun? Utility? Other? + +* Have you already developed a Facebook app? In PHP, Ruby, Java, C#.NET, Python? + +Sample: + +* No / Zero +* Fifty+ / Pirate vs. Ninja, What Disney Princess Are You? / Fun +* Five+ / WordPress, Twitter / Utility + + +h1. What's Facebook? + +* Facebook is "Addictive" +* Facebook is "So, Distracting, Companies Must Ban It" +* Facebook is "God's Gift to Developers" +* Facebook is "Nirvana for Direct Marketers" +* Facebook is the first "Word of Mouse" Engine +* Facebook is "Bloomberg Terminal for Your Life" +* Facebook is the "Lowest Cost Customer Acquisition Vehicle on the Planet" + +Source: Adonomics - Why Facebook Is Worth $100 Billion + + +h1. Facebook Stats + +* More than 70+ million active users +* More than 200,000+ new registrations/day since January 2007 +* Users spend on average 20 minutes/day on Facebook (Source: comScore) +* #1 photo sharing site on the Web (Source: comScore) +* More than 14 million photos uploaded/day +* More than 6 million active user groups + +Source: "Facebook Statistics":http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics + + +h1. Canadian Facebook Stats + +More than 8+ million Facebookers (top outside the US followed by 8+ in the UK) + +Metros/Networks + +* Greater Toronto Metro, Ontario - 1,161,114 Facebookers +* Greater Vancouver Metro, British Columbia - 703,382 Facebookers +* Greater Montreal Metro, Quebec - 591,215 Facebookers +* Greater Calgary Metro, Alberta - 383,558 Facebookers + +Canadian University Networks + +* University of British Columbia (UBC) - 31,595 Facebookers +* Simon Fraser University (SFU) - 24,142 Facebookers +* University of Victoria (UVic) - 16,416 Facebookers +* University of Toronto (UofT) - 57,360 Facebookers + +Source: "Facebook Networks":http://www.facebook.com/networks/networks.php (Apr/14/2008) + + +h1. Facebook vs. MySpace + +Facebook: + +* One Person - One Profile (No Multiple Personas Allowed) +* No Fake or Anonymous Profiles Allowed + +MySpace (100+ Million Profiles): + +* One Spam King - 500,000 MySpace Profiles +* Fake and Anonymous Profiles Allowed - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Chair, Butter, etcetera + + + +h1. Facebook Apps + +* 20,000+ apps +* 100+ new apps/day added +* More than 95% of Facebookers installed (and used) at least one Facebook app + +Top Categories + +* Just for Fun Applications (9000+) - Top Friends, Movies, Likeness, Scrabulous, Graffiti, Vampires +* Gaming (2400+) - Scrabulous, Texas HoldEm Poker, (fluff)Friends, PetrolHead, Oregon Trail, WarBook +* Sports Applications (1900+) - Sport Bets, Hockey Pool, Premier League Picks, Toronto Maple Leafs Fans +* Utility Applications (1800+) - Bumper Sticker, Advanced Wall, Cities I've Visited, Where I've Been, Books iRead + +More Categories + +Education (1600+), Dating (1500+), Music (1100+), Events (900+), Business (900+), Money (300+) and many more + +Source: "Facebook Application Catalog":http://www.facebook.com/apps + +h1. Best of the West - Top Facebook Apps Made in British Columbia + +# Scratch and Win (Backstage) / 449,900 / 71,984 (16%) +# Hockey Pool (Ben Nevile) / 347,793 / 48,691 (14%) +# Are You Normal? (Kinzin) / 572,300 / 5,723 (1%) +# I'm Reading (Garth Shoemaker) / 61,400 / 614 (1%) +# Hockey Pool Pro (Jason Bailey, $uper Rewards) / 20,300 / 203 (1%) +# The Snow Report (Jeremy Holland and Dean Halford ) / 18,200 / 182 (1%) +# Eat-A-Rama (ActiveState) / 17,800 / 30 (0%) +# Green Gifts (Social Signal) / 7,400 / 74 (1%) +# These Are My Kids (Kinzin) / 4,200 / 126 (3%) +# Mixx Maker (Project Opus/Donat Group) / 1,000 / 20 (2%) + +Source: "Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 (3.0) Developer Group":http://vanajax.com + +"Adonomics Chart - Scratch and Win / Are You Normal? / Hockey Pool":http://adonomics.com/display/5274916578+2389617504+5173067945 + + +h1. Facebook Developers + +* More than 300,000+ Facebook Developers World Wide +* Vancouver Facebook (& Social Network) Developers Group (200+) + +Facebook Developer Garage Events Around the World: + +San Francisco, New York, Boston, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Singapore, Sydney + and in many more cities (Source: Facebook Developer Garage Calendar) + +* "Vancouver's 1st Facebook Developer Garage":http://barcamp.org/FacebookCampVancouver2007 +* "Vancouver's 2nd Facebook Developer Garage":http://barcamp.org/FacebookCampVancouver2008 + + +h1. Facebook App Analytics / Stats - Adonomics Leaderboard + +* There are 886,320,511 installs across 21,822 apps on Facebook with over 200,000 developers currently evaluating the platform. +* These applications were used 34,175,797 times in the last 24 hours and have a combined valuation of $428,182,197.. + +h3. Top Facebook Applications + +"Adonomics Facebook Application Leaderboard":http://adonomics.com/leaderboard/apps + +Metrics: + +* Installs +* Active Users (%) +* Valuation (Estimated) in $$$ + + +h1. Graphical OS vs. Social OS + +Windows OS vs. Facebook OS / Desktop OS vs Web OS + +h3. Founders + +Harvard drop-out and his former roommate +vs. +Harvard drop-out and his former roommate + +h3. Initial Launch + +1984 vs. 2004 + +h3. Critical Mass Achieved + +1995 vs. 2007 + +h3. Competitors + +Digital Research's GEM, IBM's OS/2 Presentation Manager, VisiCorp's VisiON, Sun xWindows, Apple's Mac + +vs. + +MySpace, LinkedIn, Orkut, Friendster, OpenSocial + + +h3. Focus + +* Windows SDK à Developers / Developers / Developers!!! +* 80,000 employees +* 4+ million 3rd party developers + +vs. + +* F8 Platform à Developers / Developers / Developers!!! +* 450 employees +* 200,000+ 3rd party developers + +h3. Lock-in + +OEM PC companies bundled Windows; Developers' apps and API knowledge; Consumer investment in apps, file system and user interface + +vs. + +Consumer investment in Profile Data, Notes, Photos, e-Mail history, Groups, Apps, and Friend Network; developers' apps and API knowledge + +h3. Killer Apps + +Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook, Browser + +vs. + +Photos, Events, Friends, Newsfeed, Inbox, Groups, Profile Page +Calendar, Dining, Travel, Gifting, Shopping, Turn-based Games, Super Groups + + +Source: Adonomics - Why Facebook is Worth $100 Billion + + + +h1. Web Site Registration vs. Facebook App Install + +h3. User Actions Required to Accomplish Registration + +Select Registration Button, Enter E-mail, Enter & Re-Enter Password, Enter other app related profile data + +vs. + +Select Add Application, Select Continue + +h3. Source of New Users + +Cost Per Click Advertising (typically $0.25 to $1.00 to get a visitor), Cost Per Impression Advertising, Search Engine Optimization, PR, Offline Advertising, Blogs + +vs. + +Friend Invites, Friend Newsfeeds + + +h3. Site Reminders + +Bookmarking (<1%) +vs. +Profile page + +h3. Post Registration Marketing Methods + +e-mail + +vs. + +e-mail, newsfeed, profile page, friends' interactions + +h3. Hurdles to Re-using Site/App + +Remember e-mail/password +vs. +Find app/icon on Profile Page and Click + +Source: Adonomics - Why Facebook is Worth $100 Billion + +h1. Tracking Facebook News + +Facebook Blogs/News + +* "All Facebook Blog":http://allfacebook.com +* "Inside Facebook Blog":http://insidefacebook.com + +Facebook Blogs/News in and around Vancouver, B.C. + * "Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 (3.0) Developer Blog":http://vanajax.com \ No newline at end of file samples/facebook.textile @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ h1. Guiding Principles of Merb Development * Know your runtime and how it acts -h1. Merb’s Motto +h1. Merb's Motto No code is faster than no code. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Just throw more servers at the problem! Throwing more servers at the problem only goes so far ... -Of course I’m happy to sell you more servers ;) +Of course I'm happy to sell you more servers ;) h1. Who Cares About Efficiency Continued @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Premature Optimization is the root of blah blah blah... *Postmature Optimization* is the root of all hosting bills ;) -h1. What’s New? +h1. What's New? * merb-core ** Rack Webserver Abstraction Layer @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ class Posts < Application end }}} -h1. merb-more - What’s New? +h1. merb-more - What's New? * Code Generators * Asset Bundling @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ h1. merb-more - What * Caching * Other essentials -h1. merb-plugins - What’s New? +h1. merb-plugins - What's New? * merb_datamapper * merb_activerecord samples/merb.textile @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Behind the scenes - Geo Microformat Code Alternative geo Microformat: <abbr title="49.205486;-122.892036" class="geo"> - North Vancouver’s Lynn Canyon + North Vancouver's Lynn Canyon </abbr> Yes. That's it. That's all. A real-word geo microformat from Flickr (a Yahoo! service). samples/microformats.text @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Flickr 2.3 million photos geotagged this month * Golden Bricks - Fall in Vancouver -> http://flickr.com/photos/januszbc/1776184496/ * Vancouver Sculpture Biennale -> http://flickr.com/photos/pandoras_box/487848863/ * New Westminster, SkyTrain Bridge -> http://flickr.com/photos/januszbc/2100964102/ -* North Vancouver’s Lynn Canyon -> http://flickr.com/photos/januszbc/2211044973/ +* North Vancouver's Lynn Canyon -> http://flickr.com/photos/januszbc/2211044973/ * Last Day in Paris -> http://flickr.com/photos/danorbit/346563918/ * Grand Canyon -> http://flickr.com/photos/leviathor/220065623/ @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Alternative geo Microformat: {{{ <abbr title="49.205486;-122.892036" class="geo"> - North Vancouver’s Lynn Canyon + North Vancouver's Lynn Canyon </abbr> }}} samples/microformats.textile @@ -110,14 +110,14 @@ That's it. Voila. h3. Bonus: Try some more slide show samples * "Microformats - Adding Semantics to Your Web Site - Web 3.0 in Action":http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/microformats.html -(Source: "@microformats.textile@":http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/microformats.textile, - "@microformats.text@":http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/microformats.text) +(Source: "@microformats.textile@":http://github.com/geraldb/slideshow/raw/master/samples/microformats.textile, + "@microformats.text@":http://github.com/geraldb/slideshow/raw/master/samples/microformats.text) * "Why Facebook Matters - Stats, Numbers, Web OS vs. Desktop OS":http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/facebook.html -(Source: "@facebook.textile@":http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/facebook.textile) +(Source: "@facebook.textile@":http://github.com/geraldb/slideshow/raw/master/samples/facebook.textile) * "Merb - All You Need, None You Don't":http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/merb.html -(Source: "@merb.textile@":http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/merb.textile) +(Source: "@merb.textile@":http://github.com/geraldb/slideshow/raw/master/samples/merb.textile) * "Tagging & Tag Clouds Made Easy":http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/tagging.html -(Source: "@tagging.textile@":http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/tagging.textile) +(Source: "@tagging.textile@":http://github.com/geraldb/slideshow/raw/master/samples/tagging.textile) h2(#textile). What's Textile? What's Markdown? site/content/index.txt @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ h2(#fetch). How To Fetch New Template Packages? Using the @-f/--fetch URI@ option lets you fetch (install) new templates. Example: {{{ -$ slideshow -f http://github.com/geraldb/sandbox/raw/.../s5blank/s5blank.txt +$ slideshow -f http://github.com/geraldb/sandbox/raw/master/s5blank/s5blank.txt }}} Resulting in: site/content/more.txt @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ include code use a nested include e.g.: }}} For more options or on how to write your own syntax highlighting -helpers it might be best to check the source of the helpers. +helpers it might be best to check the "source of the helpers":http://github.com/geraldb/slideshow/tree/master/code/lib/slideshow/helpers. h2(#questions). Questions? Comments? site/content/plugins.txt @@ -46,10 +46,20 @@ h2 .programlisting { + padding: 4px 0 4px 0; + border-top: #bbb 1px solid; + border-bottom: #bbb 1px solid; + background: #f3f3f3; +} + +/* +.programlisting +{ color: white; background-color: black; padding: 0.5em; } +*/ .toc { site/content/slideshow.css @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ h2(#s5blank). S5 Blank Sample template package using the S5.11 blank package (License: Public Domain, Author: Gerald Bauer) -Install: "s5blank":http://github.com/geraldb/sandbox/raw/13d4fec0908fbfcc456b74dfe2f88621614b5244/s5blank/s5blank.txt +Install: "s5blank":http://github.com/geraldb/sandbox/raw/master/s5blank/s5blank.txt h2(#fetch). How To Fetch New Template Packages? site/content/templates.txt 5592501240170cb21c6d0c4beb37a44fda7f7664 Gerald Bauer gerald.bauer@gmail.com http://github.com/geraldb/slideshow/commit/72e94423716161ed3b9b7d731419a0c9f2a2d8d2 72e94423716161ed3b9b7d731419a0c9f2a2d8d2 2009-03-21T07:22:35-07:00 2009-03-21T07:22:35-07:00 touch up site and css 83e56eb2d84eebf6ae23da735dfefd666c4eba1a Gerald Bauer gerald.bauer@gmail.com