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Last week, Facebook Developers Garage London was back, with more tech you can shake a Facebook app at! Held in the heart of London’s Silicon Roundabout, at TechHub, attendees heard from Simon Cross, Executive Product Manager at BBC ID & Social (basically one of the top developers), who spoke about blending TV with social media platforms with the launch of the new BBC iPlayer in the next few weeks. He wowed the audience with some amazing figures, such as 130 million requests for video/audio per month, 1.4 million users per day and wait for it… it makes up 10% of the UK bandwidth!

Regular speaker, Iskandar Najmuddin from Nudge ran through what is new on the platform, namely Facebook Places (what everyone is talking about!) and Dave Nattriss gave an interesting dissection of what is hot on Facebook right now – apparently Farmville still (60 million people like it!) and it’s mostly social gaming applications that are the most popular on Facebook – so if you are thinking of creating an app for Facebook we definitely suggest you should add an element of competition to the service

There was also a Hackathon Update from some of the guys who presented their app ideas to The Zuck earlier this year. Todd Chaffee’s Six Degrees of Separation app caused a bit of buzz and Iskandar made the interesting observation that an application like this could merge a user’s personal and professional online persona to the point that there would be no need for Linkedin – What do others think?

You can watch the full video report below:

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Last week our sister video production company, Newspepper headed to the annual Bootlaw & Chinwag Summer BBQ to find out what’s hot in the world of tech in London!

We asked what people thought about Facebook Places – soon to be launched in the UK – what has been the most exciting technology development this year and possible the most important question for the ladies in tech – Jack Doresy vs Mark Zuckerberg; Who would you like to spend a bit of personal social networking time with?

Find out the winner in our video report below:

Newspepper Report – Chinwag and Bootlaw Summer BBQ from Newspepper on Vimeo.

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So I know I’m <very> late to the game on getting an iPhone4, but I rushed out and bought and iPad from the US as soon as it came out and restricted myself on waiting for my free 02 upgrade for the iPhone4. Finally it came and today is the first day I’ve had it! I thought I would do a quick vlogg (video blog for those in the dark ages) and test the HD camera and iMovie app.

It was the perfect day to test the camera as I was filming at London  Zoo today for The Entrepreneurs Exhibition where I’m going to be doing a seminar later this year (make sure you get your tickets).

So what do you think of this video? It was filmed, edited (whilst I had a cuppa-tea) and published in one hour…all on the iPhone4- I think it’s pretty amazing considering it’s editing HD footage and the app is limited but easy to use. You can add name tags and music to each clip and change the theme.  Make sure you watch right until the end to see The VintageMaker app that allows you to film as if it’s the 1920s!

Ps: The video is still processing on YouTube  which is why it might look a little grainy- Come back in a couple of hours if you want to see it’s full potential.

PPs: I am not sponsored by Apple I just love their products -If you know of a better  phone and app on Android or other smart phone I would love to test it out and publish the results!

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Bit more of me, me ME! Are you sick of me yet? I was featured in a life-style article by The Evening Standard’s Mark Prigg on Monday because cloud-based services enable me to run my company from any computer, anywhere in the world. I’ve just come back from three months in the USA and although I have the wonderful Chloe on the ground here in London dealing with day-to-day logistics, I was able to run my accounts and company filing from the USA with ease. It’s also about how I HATE clutter and physical possessions – I have not had a TV for three years as I watch all my programing online and only buy minimal amount of clothes- Hopefully living our lives digitally will enable us to step away from this gross buying and throwing away culture we have.  You can read the full article here.

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