Update: The Official Live Blog Will Begin at 5:30pm, October 23rd, 2007 over on this post.
It’s one of the top sites in the nation and anyone who is not on it yet (who had held out this long) deserves a medal.
Facebook has exploded in popularity since opening its doors to the general public last winter and along with profiles, gifts, fun walls and zombies, there are those who develop and design applications specifically for this highly-addictive monster of a site.
Join us for Vancouver’s first Facebook Developer (& Designer) Garage – a place for you to explore, get gritty, tinker, experiment, and test out your ideas for new Facebook apps.
When: Tuesday October 23, 2007 from 5:30 to 9:00pm
Where: The Vancouver Film School (VFS), Digital Design Campus [Google Map].
What: The Facebook Garage is an ad-hoc unconference-style meetup for anyone interested in connecting with Facebookers in and around Vancouver to discuss, share and extend your knowledge on how to design, develop and market Facebook services and apps.
Who: FacebookCampVancouver is presented by the Vancouver Facebook Developers Group (on Facebook) or (website) , the Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 Developers Group and the Vancouver User Experience Group
Unconferences are a relaxed and steady flow of presentations by attendees (see BarCamp or DemoCamp). Come on our if you are a developer, Ajax enthusiast, Facebook lover, Facebook App developer or promoter, Facebook geek or Vancouver geek in general. You’ll be able to network with other developers and application creators, demo your new idea for an app, show off and promote what you’ve already made, and have a great time.
Anyone/everyone else is welcome to sign up via the Facebook event.
You can tune into my site on Tuesday, October 23rd for the Official Live Blog, sponsored by Communicate.com. Big thanks also goes to Techvibes for being the media sponsor (including Flickr shots that I will use in my live blog) and Vancouver Film School as the Venue Sponsor. Of course we cannot forget Facebook, who has officially sponsored this event as well.
Facebook apps developed and designed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia include:
Dabble Do (Social To-Do List) Built By Dabble DB
MyBus (Translink Bus Schedule) Built By Handi Mobility
I’m Reading (Book List w/ Ratings and Reviews) Built By Garth Shoemaker
Up4 (Social Planning Helper) Built By ActiveState
Are You Normal Built By Kinzin
NHL Box Scores Built By Kick In The Nuts Media
Yoga Built By Kick In The Nuts Media
Urban Dictionary Built By Kick In The Nuts Media
The Far Side Built By Kick In The Nuts Media
Demotivator Built By Kick In The Nuts Media
Comic Strip Built By Kick In The Nuts Media
Scratch and Win Built By Backstage Technologies
ClassTalk Built By PeerGlobe
Scheduled Demos at the Garage:
Kinzin’s Are You Normal App Released October 3rd.
NoteMix – Create courses and collaborate on notes with other course members. By Colin Kierans
MyBus – Keep track of favourite Vancouver / Calgary / Toronto bus routes on your FB profile!
Hockey Pool by Ben Nevile
Opus Music Player and Social Playlists by Donat Group
Mixx Q & A with Jeremy Lim (Project Opus)
Green Gifts by Social Signal/BC Hydro
Scratch and Win by Backstage Technologies
ClassTalk by PeerGlobe
Open Social Networks? Q&A with OpenID Lead Johnny Bufu (Sxip Identity)
Scheduled Lightning Talks:
Monetizing Your Facebook Application(s) – A quick overview of ways developers are using their applications to generate cold hard cash!
The Future of Facebook Q&A lead by Boris Mann and Johnny Bufu of Sxip.
If you’re like me, when you check your feeds, Morning Brew is at the top of the heap. This is a daily feature provided by Sean Orr on the popular Vancouver group blog, Beyond Robson. After discovering he had many more projects on the go, and that he could get my Red Dwarf references, I decided to touch base with Sean and do another Blogger Profile.
Who are you?: Somebody who doesn’t know who he is, and perhaps realizes that its alright not to know. But for the sake of posterity and because we live in a digital world and whatnot, I’m Sean Orr, I was born in Surrey, I work at Budgies, I play in a band called Taxes, I take lots of photographs, I once ran for the Green Party.
Where do you write?: I write for Tooth and Dagger, and I blog. I write for Beyond Robson, a little column called Morning Brew and I write more international Digg type stuff at Chalked Up.com.
Favourite thing to write about?: I like writing about how absurd The Province editorials are. They are so blatant. Its almost too easy.
What’s the BEST part of blogging?: The best part of blogging is being able to be ultra sarcastic and parody the news in a sort of super Canadian tradition, and actually have people follow it.
Do you write for yourself, your readers or for Google?: I’d say I’d be writing letters to editors anyway if I wasn’t blogging so I’d say I write for myself, the readers are a total bonus. I also love starting up shit and the endless comments that hopefully follow.
What makes you the most interesting author on BR?: I wouldn’t say I’m the most interesting, I think you can’t really go wrong with Vancouver politics. The Only were doing it before me and Terminal City before them and I am influenced by those guys, same with you guys and the already well established blogging scene with The Vancouverite and whatnot.
Would you ever censor yourself?: I sometimes stop myself from saying really horrible things, but I wouldn’t really censor myself. I might remove a comment if i acted too hastily and wanted to rely in a calmer fashion.
PC, Mac or Speak n’ Spell: I use a Mac. Although I’m not like all in love with them or anything. I don’t really care.
Blogs you read or would recommend: I love looking at all the art on Poppy Talk, same with the fashion at The Commodified. From Blown Speakers and Streethawk for music. The Tyee is really good for the Reported Elsewhere newsfeed and they talk about stuff that isn’t mentioned in any of our major media. Livable Blog, CondoHype, Pacific Metropolis, Meg Fowler, PriceTags, and Public Eye are all great too.
A short while ago Keira was contacted by a reporter about the MySpace identity debacle. Since its discovery, she was able to get the profile deleted and notify some of the imposter’s contacts. Luckily I had time to capture some screenshots of the photos posted on the account before its removal. It’s nice to look back and laugh at the good times she and I had in “Hay Park” when she was visiting from Austin.
Original photo credit:
Duane Storey on Flickr – In Stanley Park, not Hay Park
Not sure if I’ll get some face time on the story, but we’re meeting with CTV this evening so I assume it will be on the 6:00pm or late night news.
Unfortunately, as experienced with The Crazy Canucks, CTV usually pulls their content from YouTube so we may not be able to view it later – save for my whatever my mom captures with her VCR – so let us know how it goes.
This weekend I’m heading over to Standard Building Supplies in North Vancouver, and not because I need some lumber. When this proprietor wants to create an event and get promotion going for his store he goes all out and this Saturday is no exception. He’s going to have several local radio stations on location, prize draws (including the chance to win a Porsche), tons of food and the best part… Canucks alumni signing autographs.
So far I’ve heard mention of Cliff Ronning, “King” Richard Brodeur, Geoff Courtnall, Dave Babych and Gino Odjick. Did I say Dave “the moustache” Babych and Gino “Ozone” Odjick? You bet I did.
The event takes place this Saturday at Standard Building Supply, 22 Bewicke Avenue in North Vancouver from 8:00am to 4:00pm.
With transportation and traffic congestion being a hot topic with Metro Vancouver commuters, Translink is preparing to launch a new site this November that aims to be an “all-in-one” source for getting around the region.
The website integrates bus, train and ferry schedules along with delays at YVR and the status at the Canada US border. www.i-move.ca is currently in the testing phase and is expected to be fully running by November. [CKNW]
One of the best things Translink could do is come out with a system that’s easy to use and time-saving. Unfortunately no matter how informed we are about a traffic camera being on HWY 1 at the Kensington on-ramp, it still doesn’t solve most problems with our major thoroughfares and lack of public transit options.
I’m certainly willing to give i-Move a chance, and I’ve even been tinkering with it for a while this evening.
The cycling section seems pretty interesting, laying out lines for routes on and off-road travel in all cities (I’m interested in seeing what Paul, Richard and Roland think of this).
“Trip Calculator” estimates 18-25 minutes from Burnaby to Vancouver depending on if you take the bus, or your car (on a day when there are no “events” present) and it also allows you to enter the current price of gas so it can tally how much you’ve used at various points along the way.
The “events” option is useful, displaying reported trouble-spots on the Google Map so drivers can plan alternate routes, although I’m not sure how often it’s updated. The rest of the features (cameras, borders etc.) just add icons to the map with flags containing basic information.
Despite bumping into an error from Microsoft CMS 2002 on the site, it’s definitely got a lot of features. I fully understand this is not the complete version of i-Move but will look forward to exploring it in detail once launched next month.
