This video is Part 1 of 3, taken at the fbFund REV Demo Day on 9/1/09 that features an introduction by Cat Lee, Sheryl Sandberg, Dave McClure, Thread.com, Funki, Sociable, GeckoGo, DropPlay, Photos I Love, Vittana and Workstir.

This video is Part 2 of 3, taken at the fbFund REV Demo Day on 9/1/09 that features Backlight.org, NetworkedBlogs, Wildfire, NutshellMail, Cash.io, Gameyola, RunMyErrands and Samasource.

This video is Part 3 of 3, taken at the fbFund REV Demo Day on 9/1/09 that features MyChurch, RunThere, Zimride, Sortuv, Life360, RentMineOnline, and an outro/wrap-up from Enrique Allen and Dave McClure.

“fbFund is a fund focused on continuing to create incentives for the development of applications on Facebook Platform. Initially, the fund will make available $10 million in capital which may grow over time.

The fund is now accepting applications for $25,000-$250,000 non-recourse grants from anyone interested in building their business on Facebook Platform. Any individual or company, anywhere in the world can apply as long as they have not raised any formal venture funding.

We are forming this fund to help grow the Facebook application ecosystem. By decreasing the barrier to start a company, we hope to entice an even larger group of people to become entrepreneurs and build a compelling business on Facebook Platform. We hope this is also a funding model that other venture capitalists will follow.

fbFund will be administered by Facebook and funded by Accel Partners and The Founders Fund. The investment committee will be comprised of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, and Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook vice president of product marketing and operations. Facebook board members Jim Breyer (Accel Partners) and Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund) will also be part of the committee. Additionally, the fund will rely upon an advisory council that includes Reid Hoffman, founder and chairman of LinkedIn; Josh Kopelman, founder of First Round Capital; and Rajeev Motwani, professor of computer science at Stanford University and early advisor to Google.”

Please submit your application at http://www.facebook.com/developers/fbfund.php.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.

Widget Summit 2008

Widget Summit hosted its third annual conference November 3rd and 4th at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. Widget Summit is the premier widget conference educating hundreds of attendees a year on business and development best practices in the emerging widget industry.

The Widget Summit 2008 conference program included a detailed look inside the widget platforms changing the way users interact with rich content across multiple environments. Widget Summit will help you reach and engage new audiences across multiple platforms including over 180 million Windows Vista desktops, 25 million active Facebook users, 10 million iPhone smartphones, or the millions of users that call My Yahoo! and iGoogle home every day. The world of widgets reaches beyond a standard web address and into the desktops, mobile phones, social networks, blogs, and personal homepages of today’s fragmented online engagements.

Check out the following Widget Summit 2008 videos:

Jonathan Carrigan of CBC shares business lessons learned while completing his MBA and in practice with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Lessons Learned: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Paul Lindner of hi5 presents on the widget container and its worldwide audience.

Widgets Around the World: hi5 from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Laurent Sanchez of ACCESS presents Japanese use of mobile widgets at Widget Summit 2008.

Widgets Around the World: ACCESS from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Will Price from Widgetbox and Freddy Mini from Netvibes discuss widget discovery via galleries with moderator Niall Kennedy.

Meet the Galleries from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

iPhone developers share their mobile development experience on this new platform. Brian Fling of Fling Media, Tom Conrad of Pandora, Dom Sagolla of DollarApp, and Sunil Verma of Mobclix discuss the iPhone native application platform with moderator Raven Zachary.

iPhone Developer Panel from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Andreas Weigend presents Widget Data Strategies at Widget Summit 2008.

Widget Data Strategies from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Steve Souders of Google presents High Performance Widgets at Widget Summit 2008.

High Performance Widgets from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Chris Schalk of Google and Paul Lindner of hi5 Networks present OpenSocial Basics at Widget Summit 2008.

OpenSocial Basics from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Max Newbould of MySpace provides an introduction to creating OpenSocial applications on the MySpace platform.

MySpace Applications from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Max Engel of MySpace presents MySpace Data Portability at Widget Summit 2008.

MySpace Data Portability from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Ryan Sarver of Skyhook Wireless and Chris Butler share the current state-of-the-art for geolocation-aware widget implementations and the data targeting available within.

Geolocation-aware Widgets from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

An excellent ‘related’ read: Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

While at the Ogilvy conference a few years ago (February 16th -17th, 2006 in Barcelona | Ogilvy GSM Conference: “Intention, Attention, and Interaction”), Anil of Mobuzz TV sat down and had a chat with Andreas Weigend about Web 3.0 and the future of interactivity.

In this video, Andreas predicts that Web 3.0 will offer “incentives” for the user; with incentive driven sites such as Live.com and their cashback program, Andreas proves himself as a visionary.