The turnout for Toronto’s first FaceBookCamp was impressive. Based on the conference room capacity, I would estimate there was close to 400 people.
The event even garnered some mainstream media attention. A co-worker heard about it on CBC radio. Amber MacArthur produced a segment for CityNews International.
Here are some interesting tidbits:
Facebook is the most accessed website in Canada (I still find this are to believe). There are approximately 3 million Canadians actively using Facebook. 66% access it at least once a day.
The Facebook application development platform has been available for approximately 2 months. Since there, more than 1700 applications have been developed - 10% of them are developed in Canada. A few applications are now reaching close to 10 million installed users.
August 17th, 2007 at 6:09 am
It was indeed a huge turnout…so much so that the “unconference” really wasn’t one. Have you been to smaller unconferences / camp and if so, was there more active participation from the audience?
August 18th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Hi Phil, I’ve only been able to attend DemoCamp “unconferences”. They are significantly smaller and have more audience questions.