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Facebook Weekend BETA

ron — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:21:13 +0000

Friday, November 30th through December 2nd, 2007

FBWB ( Facebook Weekend Beta ) is a combination of the Barcamp adhoc unconference and the StartupWeekend concept. It brings together entrepreneurs, Facebook developers, and designers to create products over a weekend. It’s a fun (and productive) way to spend a weekend and a great way to build an app, start a company, and meet talented people.

Anyone can participate, whether you already have a team and an idea or if you want to lend your talents and join a group. Each team is responsible for all decision making on how to they want to develop their idea/company or project.

FBWB is brought to you by Innovation Toronto, a not-for-profit organization promoting entrepreneurship in the GTA. To find out more join the FacebookWeekend Beta group on, you guessed it, Facebook.

Important Stuff:

When: Friday Nov 30 (evening kick-off), Saturday Dec 1, Sunday Dec 2
Where: Innovation Toronto, 169 Eastern Avenue

How to Prepare: Join the Facebook group (this means you are registered once you join) and post your ideas, or offer your services to join a team by posting on the discussion board. Once you’re part of a team try to meet and plan in advance, it’ll make the weekend that much more productive and you will be that much closer to being ready to bring your idea to the expert panel.

What to Bring: Yourselves, your laptop, some cash for food (we’re working on finding food sponsors).

More information on Facebook Weekend BETA is available here:

http://www.innovationtoronto.com/facebook-weekend-beta/

And the Facebook Weekend Beta group to register your idea/group/company here:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6900744045

Profit & Not-For-Profit

ron — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:12:51 +0000

We have had some questions about whether FBW BETA will accept not-for-profit ideas. Of course! From the Innovation Toronto perspective we welcome everyone’s ideas. The whole idea of the weekend - before, during and after - is to have some serious fun while building real projects.

Please don’t hesitate to contact either Colin Smillie or Ron Smith if you have any questions - or ideas of course!

Tech Crunch UK on “The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde”

ron — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:15:30 +0000

On July 7 this year a 23-year-old part-time cameraman started a venture known as StartupWeekend where he planned to create, with others, a startup in one weekend. Since then he has begun a global odyssey to create a startup in many cities, and next month he lands in London and Dublin. But for this Web 2.0 version of Phileas Fogg, the sailing around the world has not been all plain.