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Facebook Weekend BETA - Update

ron — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:10:33 +0000

Here are the FB Weekend projects listed so far:

Wrinklebook.Com

Pet Project(s)

Charity Link

Energy footprint challenge

FB Application - Educational Publishing Space

Healthbook: An FB app for Personal Health Information and Services

Currently, 68 people are ready to help make your idea a reality! Submit your idea now at:

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

65 FBW BETA Members and Counting . . .

ron — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:15:48 +0000

Thanks for everyone’s response so far the Facebook Weekend BETA. Just a reminder that developers can post their interest (by platform) etc. on the discussion board in the group. There are some very interesting app ideas already posted - we encourage you to post yours.

First 3 Facebook Ideas Posted for FBW BETA

ron — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:06:57 +0000

Things are starting to get interesting. We have just seen the posting of the first 3 ideas for the upcoming weekend. Looks like we have 2 for profit and 1 not-for-profit approaches.

If you have an idea that you would like to see successfully built or would like to be part of the team that builds and promotes them please go to the FBW BETA group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6900744045

Let’s have fun and build some great projects!

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!

Coming Soon . . . Facebook Weekend BETA

ron — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:57:42 +0000

Getting it ready!

The launch announcement should go out tomorrow mid-morning. Apologies ahead of time to anyone who receives a duplicate as we are using multiple mailing list to make sure we don’t miss you.

Facebook Weekend 1 - Planning Session

ron — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:49:03 +0000

Where: 169 Eastern Avenue

When: TONIGHT FROM 6:00 p.m. to 8 p.m.

This session will focus on refining communications and process for the upcoming weekend.

Look forward to seeing you there.

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.

Innovation Toronto Update - October 10, 2007

ron — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:10:11 +0000

It is looking like a very good idea to split up the discussion we are now having in our google groups section into 2 major discussion areas:

The Events Discussions - this will be an open discussion (please contact us to get on the list) around Innovation Accelerator events including the upcoming ProjectWeekend 1 event (TBA) and the FacebookWeekend event (Dec 1/2). The main purpose of this discussion will be planning and improvement ideas to keep doing better and better events.
The Innovation Accelerator - this discussion is aimed at helping to create a viable Innovation Accelerator at our 169 Eastern Avenue location. If you are interested in joining this series of discussions, please contact us for further information.