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Last week took place the Facebook Developer Garage in London. It was a nice event with Chamath Palihapitiya (VP Facebook Product Development). But what is a Facebook Developer Garage?

It is an event organized somewhere by a Facebook developer with some sponsors. It aims at explaining how to make a good use of the Facebook Platform and it is a networking event as well.

It exists since July 2007 (the Facebook Platform exists since June 2007). Here was the schedule of the last event:

6.30 Introduction
6.40 Keynote Speaker - Chamath Palihapitiya, VP Product Development, Facebook
7.00 Technical Q&A - Learn how to maximize your apps impact on the news feed
7.30 App Showcases
8.00 Close - eat, drink, socialize and network further as required

I learned that the UK is the second fastest growing country in Facebook and that we now have 3000+ applications in it.
Facebook begins to be popular in France, but the Facebook platform is not -yet- used by French developers. This is mainly because Facebook is only available in English (in the future the site will be multilingual).

The next Facebook steps (according to Chamath Palihapitiya):
- They are working with applications creators to make a guide explaining how to create a profitable business with Facebook, based on existing success stories
- They will release a more comprehensive guide and more tutorials about the Facebook platform (what we have today is really not enough)

You can find the presentation showed during this Facebook Garage here.

The next Facebook event will take place in October, between the 10th and the 13th, the main subject will be: Monetize your Facebook app.

Very interesting, and I’ll be there.