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This week Facebook reached yet another milestone, announcing that it has hit 500 million members! This comes just a few months after Mark Zuckerburg, founder and CEO of Facebook, announced the new open graph changes to Facebook at this year’s f8 conference. Zuck believes that the personalisation of the web is creating a new wave of opportunity for developers and content companies around the world.

So last month Facebook Developers Garage London hosted its first Graph API Hackathon at Dare Digital, inviting developers, designers and techie folks to participate in a 24 hour-style hackathon, challenging them to split up into teams and develop a new Facebook application from scratch. The event was organised by Facebook Developers Garage London Chairman and founder of iPlatform, Joshua March.

Each team then had the opportunity to present their idea, and the best Graph API hacks created – as chosen by a panel of judges – were given the opportunity to be showcased at a special Facebook Developer Garage the following day, including in front of Mark Zuckerberg and Ethan Beard, Director of the Facebook Developer Network.

The day kicked off with a talk on the Graph API from Mike Vernal, Manger of Platform Engineering at Facebook, then the teams got straight to work, with the venue being open all night (including copious amount of pizza to keep them going), which allowed teams to perfect their hacks until the following morning.

Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives and senior members of the development team dropped by, and although they only planned on a short visit, they stayed for most of the evening for discussions and feedback with the 60 participants on-site.

You can watch the full video report below:

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