socon 08 opening presentation by jeff haynie
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This was the opening keynote presentation that was done by Jeff Haynie at SoCon08 on Feb 9 2008 at Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Atlanta, GA.TRANSCRIPT
• 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