Thanks for joining us for Vancouver’s 2nd Facebook Developer (& Designer) Garage and 1st in the new year. Special thanks to all our speakers (Michael Fergusson, Jeremy Lim, Alan Albert, Matthew Chiu, Garth Shoemaker, Jason Bailey, Chris Richardson, Mark Mayo, Jeremy Holland, Dean Halford, Colin Kierans, Ben Nevile), ours sponsors and to Megan Cole for hosting the event, Rebecca Bollwitt for live blogging, Duane Storey (Vancouver Blogger) and Rastin Mehr for photographing, and for the Vancouver Film School (VFS) for welcoming us back.

Looking for event photos and postings? Stop at our event wiki. Anything missing? Add your photo album, video or posting.

Thanks to our sponsors for helping us to support Vancouver’s Blogebrity and Tech Woman 2008 to Watch Rebecca Bollwit (aka Miss604) to live blog Vancouver’s 2nd Facebook Developer (& Designer) Garage and 1st in the new year and to support Duane Storey helping out with photos on Flickr and Miss604’s Vancouver Blog.

If you can’t attend Vancouver’s Facebook Garage tonight or if you’re looking for a handy write-up you’re invited to tune your browser to Rebecca’s Official Vancouver Facebook Garage Live Blog.

Thanks to Miss604 for signing up again and thanks to Duane Storey for helping out with photos on Flickr and Miss604’s Vancouver Blog. Thanks to our sponsors for making it all possible.

Doors (to the lobby) will open at 5:30 and the event will kick off at 6:00 sharp at the latest. Note, that sign-up to our event on Facebook is required.

Where: Vancouver Film School (VFS) Theatre 1

The VFS Digital Design campus is located at 420 Homer Street between Pender and W. Hastings. Enter through the side door on the east side of Homer Street. The event will take place in Theatre 1 accessible from the main foyer. Reception will be in place to assist all guests.

Megan Cole will host and moderate the event but - of course - the spotlight will be on all the live demos, Q&As and lightning talks.

Here’s the line-up (not the official order getting revealed tonight):

• Eat-A-Rama by ActiveState (Plus Mini-Lightning Talk)
• Mixx Maker (V2.0) by Project Opus / Donat Group
• (The World’s Biggest) Hockey Pool + Friend of the Month by Ben Nevile (Mainsocial)
• The Snow Report by Jeremy Holland and Dean Halford (MOK Agency)
• These Are My Kids by Kinzin / Uniserve
• 10 Friends Notes by Colin Kierans
• My Food Fix by Matthew Chiu
• I’m Reading by Garth Shoemaker
• Total Fashionista by Stephen Joyce
• $uper Rewards by Jason Bailey (Plus Mini-Lightning Talk)
• Mini-Lightning Talk on Hosting Options and Tips and Tricks on Handling Millions of Facebookers by Mark Mayo (Joyent)
• Vibrator by Chris Richardson (EQO)

If you can’t make it tonight our media partner Rebecca Bollwitt will live blog on Miss604’s Vancouver Blog and Duane Storey will help out with photos on Flickr and Miss604’s Vancouver Blog.

Thanks to our sponsors for making it all possible and supporting Vancouver’s 2nd Facebook Developer (& Designer) Garage and 1st in the new year.

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You’re invited to sign-up for a lightning talk (10-15min.) at the upcoming 2nd Vancouver Facebook Developer (& Designer) Garage and 1st in the new year. Post your proposal to our event wiki or send it to the organizer (yours truly;-).

Note, that we also welcome more Facebook application demos (no matter if still in beta or just released in the new year). Please, follow our simple 2-step nomination procedure (Step 1: Post a blurb and link to our Facebook wall; Step 2: Answer the mini Q&A. That’s it).

The current official live demo and Q&A line-up includes:

• Eat-A-Rama by ActiveState
• Mixx Maker (V2.0) by Project Opus, Donat Group
• (The World’s Biggest) Hockey Pool + Friend of the Month by Ben Nevile (Mainsocial)
• The Snow Report by Jeremy Holland and Dean Halford (MOK Agency)
• These Are My Kids by Kinzin, Uniserve
• 10 Friends Notes by Colin Kierans
• My Food Fix by Matthew Chiu
• I’m Reading by Garth Shoemaker

Rob Cottingham - the creative mind behind the Green Gifts Best of the West Facebook Award Nominee - has published a Facebook cartoon in the Noise to Signal series. Rob writes:

My latest cartoon might resonate with anyone who’s run afoul of Facebook’s Terms of Service (Hello, Mr. Scoble!)

(Source: One Degree)

Do you have published a Facebook cartoon? Let us know.

Join Green Gifts, Hockey Pool, Are You Normal?, Scratch and Win, Up4, Music Gifts, Funny Jokes, My Food Fix, Lerna BC Event, I’m Reading, Zoykes!, Coffee Shop, My Bus, Class Talk and Mixx Maker and tell us about your Facebook application and get on “The Wall“.

All nominees will get included in a series of free reviews of Facebook applications - including on Miss604’s Vancouver Blog authored by Rebecca Bollwitt - our official live blogger and Vancouver Tech Women to Watch (and Read) in 2008.

What more? Get listed on the “Best West Index” - updated every 15th each month - tracking Western Canada’s top Facebook applications using analytics from Facebook and Adonomics including estimated valuation in $$$.

Hurry and tell us about your Facebook application today and secure yourself a free ticket for Vancouver 2nd Facebook Developer (& Designer) Garage and 1st in the new year.

Ben Skelton - Habañero Practice Lead and Vancouver User Experience Group (VanUE) Organizer - helped us again securing the venue at the Vancouver Film School (VFS) Theatre 1 located at 420 Homer Street between Pender and W. Hastings for Vancouver’s 2nd Facebook Developer (& Designer) Garage and 1st in the New Year 2008.

Thanks to the Vancouver Film School (VFS) for inviting us back and thanks to Ben Skelton for getting it all started. Interested in attending? Sign-up at our event page to secure yourself a free ticket. We “sold out” last time in October. Stop at our sponsored Official Vancouver Facebook Garage Live Blog to read-up on what to expect.

Megan Cole (of Kinzin’s Are You Normal? Team) published a story titled “Vancouver’s Biggest Facebook App (According To…)” challenging Ben Nevile’s Hockey Pool for the title as Vancouver greatest Facebook success story.

The Adonomics Facebook Analytics Chart lists 584,267 total users, 35,056 active users, and a $252,654 valuation for “Are You Normal?” vs 366,239 total users, 47,611 active users, and a $177,980 valuation for Hockey Pool.

Whose bigger? You decide.

Join Green Gifts, Hockey Pool, Are You Normal?, Scratch and Win, Up4, Music Gifts, Funny Jokes and My Food Fix and tell us about your Facebook application and get on “The Wall“.

Tell us about your Facebook application on our Best of the West 2007 Awards Wall on our Facebook page. It’s that easy to send in your nomination! We’ll get back to you for details. Hurry! And get included in a series of free reviews of nominated applications on Miss604’s Vancouver Blog.