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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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