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.

DJ Patil and Andreas Weigend sit down and have a fascinating discussion covering the following “LinkedIn-related” topics: product development, organization, manipulation of data, being clever, exclusive LinkedIn insight. and much more!

DJ Patil’s has diverse experiences in a wide range of domains. Strong experience in working in ambiguity to solve complex problems. Focus on strategy, development , operations, and defining unique solutions. Experience in developing unique solutions via broad partnerships. Always looking to innovate by bringing smart people together.

DJ has an excellent track record of innovating using data & machine learning to develop revenue generating products. Some of LinkedIn’s products include “People You May Know“, “Who Viewed My Profile” & “Groups You Might Like“. Currently DJ is Chief Scientist & Sr. Director - Product Analytics at LinkedIn.

Andreas Weigend is a former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and the author of over 100 scientific papers on the application of machine learning techniques to finance and business problems.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.

Byron Reeves - Professor in the Dept. of Communication at Stanford University

Byron Reeves (twitter: @byronreeves) on Gaming for Work. In this intriguing video (Part 2 of 2), Byron speaks on using games and virtual worlds to change the way people work and businesses compete. Presentation titled “Work Sucks - Games are great“. Filmed July 31st, 2009 in Palo Alto at the fbFund HQ by Shaun Tai of SHAUN TAI Films (ZTY MEDIA), ©2009.

ABOUT BYRON REEVES

Byron is the Paul C. Edwards Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director of the H-STAR Institute (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research) and its industrial affiliate program, Media X. He is an expert on the psychological processing of media in the areas of attention, emotions, learning, and physiological responses, and has published over 100 scientific papers about media and psychology. His research has been the basis for a number of new media products for companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, in the areas of voice interfaces, automated dialogue systems, and business process simulations. He is currently working on the application of multi-player game technology to behavior change and the conduct of serious work, and is Co-Founder of Seriosity, Inc., a company building enterprise software inspired by game psychology.

ABOUT FBFUND REV

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.

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.

For more information, please visit fbFund.com

Thursday, June 18th 2009. TECHAFFAIR was fortunate to have been invited to “Oceans: Finding the Balance - A Voyage with an Oceans Pioneer and Google Earth” featuring 2009 TED Prize Winner, Dr. Sylvia Earle. Dr. Earle, a Deep Sea Diver, Oceanographer and Author, made a strong case for a ‘call to action’ combining great visuals which included a tour of the oceans using Google Earth.

Dr. Sylvia Earle was named Time magazine’s first “hero for the planet” and is an explorer-in-residence at the national Geographic Society. Dr. Earle was chief scientist at The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1990-1992 and advised several presidents on our marine environment. She also received the Rachel Carson Award from the National Audubon Society on May 19. Sylvia has logged over 6,000 hours underwater and recently inspired the program demonstrated, Oceans in Google Earth.

About E2: "Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) is the independent business voice for the environment. E2 is a national community of individual business leaders who advocate for good environmental policy while building economic prosperity. Working with NRDC, E2 takes a reasoned, economically sound approach to environmental issues by relying on fact-based policy expertise. As the independent business voice in the debate, E2 is effective and delivers results at both the state and national levels through its bipartisan efforts." Get involved.

About NRDC: "NRDC is the nation’s most effective environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.2 million members and online activists with the courtroom clout and expertise of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals." Get involved.

Although TECHAFFAIR was not allowed to film this intriguing E2 event, our staff was able to capture some engaging snapshots of the Google environment and lifestyle surrounding Google Campus located in Mountain View, California (Photos courtesy Shaun Tai for SHAUN TAI Films ©2009):

TECHAFFAIR would like to thank E2, NRDC, and Google for allowing us access to this ‘deep diving’ event.

LinkedIn Tech Talk Series 6/05/2009 Panel Discussion: Going from SCALA to scale!

Martin Odersky - Creator of SCALA / Professor at EPFL.

Moderated by Arnold Goldberg – VP, Platform Engineering at LinkedIn.

Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a professor of programming methods at the EPFL. He specialises in code analysis and programming languages. Odersky designed the Scala programming language and Generic Java. Scala is a new programming language which fuses object-oriented and functional programming while staying completely interoperable with Java. Odersky was programme Chair of ECOOP 2004. In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Martin Odersky – Creator of SCALA / Professor at EPFL - Photo by Linda Poeng.

Nick Kallen – Systems Architect at Twitter - Photo by Linda Poeng.

David Pollak – Team lead for the LIFT Web Framework - Photo by Linda Poeng.

Some of the great team over at LinkedIn! - Photo by Linda Poeng.

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of May 2009, it had more than 40 million registered users, spanning 170 industries.

TECHAFFAIR would like to thank Reid Hoffman, Arnold Goldberg, and Mario Sundar for allowing us access to this intriguing tech talk.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.