Social Network Holiday Family Hackathon

12/6/08 Sat 12pm-6pm
TEN's Santa Clara Innovation Center
2953 Bunker Hill Lane, Ste 400
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Telephone : 408-282-3500

What to expect:

This is a handon event where you can join others in learning how to build a social application on facebook platform, on bebo social network, what are the technologies involved, what are the secret sauces for quickly setting up and building and launching an app.

Offerpal offers virtual currency to monetize your apps on facebook, bebo and opensocial.

We will have experts at hand to teach you fundamentals of FBML, Bebo Platform, setting up free hosting on Joyent using OpenSolaris and setting up monetization with Offerpal.

AWARDS!!!

We will help you setup free hosting on joyent, create your first app that can run on facebook and bebo within the 4 hours your spent at this event.

Offerpal has made a generous offer to raffle a special award of free 2,000 installs for 1 lucky winner at the end of the day. This means you not only build your app, you will get 2,000 installs for free and can scale your application virally with 2,000 users.

Detailed Agenda:
12:00 Hackathorn Orientation / Lunch (Thanks to Offerpal,our lunch sponsor)

Come setup your laptop and setup the development environment to get started right away.
Network and find out who has build successful apps, what language they use and what is the best way to get started.

1:00 Walkthrough to build a Facebook/Bebo Application and Developer Sandbox by Bess Ho

Did you know Facebook and Bebo Platform are so similar that if you setup on one you can repeat on other and create the same application to reach millions of users on two different social networks?
Bess Ho  will walk through the setup process and teach you basics of FBML to get started with a real working application.

2:00 Application Hosting onthe Cloud

Sun will be at hand to walk us though how to setup free hosting at Joyent. This works for Facebook, Bebo and Opensocial applications.

3:00 Porting Your  Facebook to Bebo

Steve Cohen, head of engineering at Bebo will walk you through a step by step process to get your application up and running on bebo in 30 minutes.

You can create a new bebo application or you can take your facebook application and port it to bebo within 30 minutes, using the same FBML you learned from Bess earlier.

You can submit any new Bebo app created into the Bebo's BEST Contest.

4:00 Monetize Your Application with Offerpal

Deepika Bajaj of Offerpal will walk you through a step by step process on the secret to adding virtual currency into your application right when you launch it.

You get a chance to win the 2,000 free installs as you learn this process.

5:00 Show off your new app

We'll see a quick demo of everyone's new application as they are ready to go live!

The audience will vote on the coolest app of the day. Offerpal will raffle out the 2,000 free install for 1 application.

Lunch: sponsored by Offerpal
Facility with Wifi and outlet: sponsored by TEN's Santa Clara Innovation Center
Media and Give-away Sponsor: Bebo/AOL

Bring:
Your laptop with Wifi and USB port
Laptop Charger
Power Extension
USB Key for file transfer
HTML Editor
Terminal
Email Account
Facebook Account
AOL Account
Bebo Account