SoCon 08 Opening Presentation by Jeff Haynie

• Facebook Platform launched May 24, 2007

• Over 15,000 applications have been built, 140 new apps added daily

• 250,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007

• 65 billion page views per month• 6th most trafficked site in the U.S.

• Launched on June 29, 2007 -- UK, Germany France in November 2007

• 270,000 iPhones in the first 30 hours, 4M – 6 months from launch

• 20K iPhones sold every day• 27% of the US smartphone market,

19.5% in first quarter of shipping.

• In Rainbows released on Oct. 10, 2007

• 7th album by group, released as digital download

• “Name your price” • 1.2 million downloads, $8

average donation, and $10-12 million estimates

• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock was released in October 2007

• "largest (game) product launch ever" selling over USD $100 million in the first week after release in North America alone

• Over $1 Billion games sold

• Jan. 18, 2008 Sun agreed topurchase for $1 Billion

• Worlds largest and most deployed open source database

• Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube, Facebook

• The “M” in LAMP

What will be your big

event for 2008?

• This is a conversation, not a conference presentation event

• Everyone has something to learn, everyone has something to share

• Offline conversations are just as important as online connections