Facebook Developer Garage London UK

July 5th, 2010 1:06 am

Mark Zuckerberg and a handful of senior Facebook Executives attended a special edition of the London Facebook Developer Garage.

Their arrival signifies the start of a European expansion in conjunction with the continued push for developers and sites to adopt the Open Graph Protocol. At the event a number of interesting statistics were announced by Zuckerberg and the other executives.

50% Facebook users log on every day
26 million active users in the UK
50% of ‘likes’ from social plugins are from Europe alone
47% European viewers of the ages 12-17 watch TV while using their laptops (Forrester research)

“People don’t talk to share – they share to have something to talk about” – Douglas Rushkoft

The major announcement was that Facebook has now reached 26 million unique users in the UK. Also announced was 50% of all “Likes” originate from within Europe, which is about 50 million out of the reported 100 million likes so far, an early indicatator of the popularity of the Social Plugin platform.

Mark Zuckerberg

“Every year that goes by we get more access to information – it’s a really exciting time to be developing”

Facebook has created a movement of designing for people – the whole platform is built around people.
“Facebook is the most engaging web platform ever built, because it’s about people“

Three new things Facebook have introduced recently:

1. OpenGraph
2. Social Plugins (Over 300,000 websites are now using social plugins.)
3. Instant personalisation

“I think we’ll look back in a few years when the web is much more personalised and wonder how it ever wasn’t personalised.”

The event marked a good turning point for all European based Facebook Developers and it will be good to see more of a Facebook presence outside of their Palo Alto offices in California.

Pauline says:

July 9, 2010 at 10:58 pm

This is the beginning of the future, where social networks will be like air — everywhere you need and want them to be. Facebook has a distinct advantage in this space, given its vibrant member base and its relationships with developers who are already creating these social apps. Looking forward for the next event