Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Habbo Hotel's Oisin Lunny speaking at Garage tomorrow on monetisation of virtual worlds

Today we confirmed Oisin Lunny, the UK's country manager for Habbo UK, to speak at the Facebook Developer Garage London tomorrow on the monetisation of virtual gifts and worlds.

We'll also be looking at the new Facebook APIs on status updates, posted links and video uploads, and what this means for application developers. 



More about Oisin Lunny and Habbo

As UK Country Manager of Habbo UK, Oisin combines 19 years of experience in the media, music and technology industries. In addition to the day-to-day running of Habbo Oisin oversees the deployment of integrated marketing and advertising campaigns to encourage site growth. 

Habbo is the largest and fastest growing Virtual World and Social Networking site for teens globally, with over 124 Million registered characters. This presentation will share insights gained from Habbo’s nine years of experience in creating an immersive environment for teens, looking at integrated advertising campaigns, and the creation of an in-world economy through virtual currency and gifts. 

Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Facebook Garage - Next Week! (11th Feb)

Tickets available now - 

At this month's Garage:

'From Concept to Launch' Mat Clayton from Wakari is back with his sucessful steps to make a viral app.

Comic Relief are here to tell us all the details of their Facebook Developer Garage Hackathon, which is happening during the day on the 21st February.

Devin Hunt, the co-founder of Fuzzwich.com, an animation advertising company, tells us about their ups - and downs - experimenting with marketing inside Facebook.

Karl Bunyan from Social Cash how to triple your users by allowing translation of apps.

Toby Beresford from Nudge London tells us 5 things we should know about Facebook Connect.

Plus the regulars - Iskandar's back with the Latest from the Platform and all the top advice, networking and free beer at Sun Microsystems.

This month thanks to Gold Sponsor Sun (http://uk.sun.com/startupessentials/) we're back at Sun Microsystems Customer Briefing Centre and they'll be laying on the free pizzas, wifi and beer

Our Event Sponsors: Nudge (www.nudgelondon.com/blog), Logicode (www.logicode.com) and AdKnowledge

Media partners: Newspepper.com

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