Demoing at the Facebook Developer Garage of Madrid
February 27, 2008 – 4:54 pmTagzania was present las week in the Facebook Developer Garage of Madrid, an event that attracted several presentations and over 200 people in the audience. Fon the wifi network and its founder, Martin Varsavsky, hosted the event and it counted with the presence of the internationalization responsible for Facebook, Javier Oliván.
We were glad to present two applications, one in behalf of one of our customers, and the other one the Beta app of Tagzania itself. Nestoria’s search application to find homes in Spain was the 1st ever application developed in Spanish for Facebook last year, before the social network decided to expand to other languages this year. Last year’s experience with that app made us insights and ideas for other projects, and so the beta Tagzania app was recently launched: so far, only in Spanish, tailored to Spain, and in Beta stage, but it’s there, if you want to check.
Luistxo and Nando from Tagzania Services demoing Nestoria’s app
Other apps in the event were interesting, of course, but most of all we were glad to hear Javier Oliván explaining that the Facebook Platform will expand beyond the limits of its domain. In the near future, it will not only channel third-party applications into the social sphere of Facebook, but it will also be open to be used in other sites and networks. That’s a big step. Just like the opening of the Google Maps API sprouted myriads of geographical mashups, in 2005 there’s a new opportunity here, another defining moment for the Internet as a crossing point of multiple services and data. Tagzania Services doesn’t want to miss the action, certainly.
