MatthewVB

Seems like the there was a bit of a delay over at Weekend Apps with the final announcement. The latest information coming out is saying that 11 apps (as opposed to the first reported 6) were launched this past weekend.

Here’s the new run-down of the 11 apps:

• Matchtastic
  Dating and rating to find friends and meet new people
• ASPECTS
  ASPECTS shows the world the different aspects of your life, your skills and your interests. Flaunt it now!
• PikiPages
  Create your own free form page. Drag and drop your pictures, mp3, videos, etc. Share your pages with your friends or the entire world, event outside facebook.
• Send me an artist
  Send an artist to your friends and let him draw you a picture in 4 days.
• HitchHikers
  Hitchhiker takes you in a journey of a lifetime. Reach a destination anywhere in the world by hitchhiking with your friends. Meet new people and hook up with interesting folks along the way. Track the progress of your hitchhiking adventure and those of the folks you’ve helped.
• Deface a baby
  App for fun to deface a baby, in any way you want, and share it with your facebook friends!
• Spring Break
  Go on virtual tours and meet new people.
• Blogs I Read
  Display our favorite blogs on your profile, connect with bloggers, and discover new blogs.
• OH Snap!
  Choose your best pictures and display them on your profile
• Peace Quiz
  The purpose of Peace Quiz is to show you what would happen if we had world peace. The Quiz will show you some statements of what peace would lead to in and you get to guess whether or not the real affect would be higher or lower than our calculations.
• Ad Exchange
  An app to exchange ads among all the apps released in the weekend to cross-promote each other.

We’ll see how these apps turn out over the course of the next month. It seems to take a while in Facebook land for apps to spread, and with the most recent cries of application overload and the rumors of the peak of popularity, only time will tell how these 11 apps will fair in the land of the ever rising app.

In what was the first Facebook App development weekend, Weekend Apps hosted a handful of developers (final count unknown) and successfully launched 6 apps by the end of weekend. A quick rundown of what came to be the first of potentially more to come Weekend Apps…well, weekends.

• Deface A Baby – Draw on baby photos and share them.
• Pikipages - “drag and drop” photos, videos, text, html code into a canvas that you can share.
• Blogs I Read – Share the blogs you read, rank them, and post comments on it.
• Ad Exchange – Advertising exchange to cross promote your application with others in the same group.
• Matchtastic – “find your perfect match”
• Spring Break – Take your friends on a virtual spring break

While I defer to Nick  for insight on which of these will be most successful and why, based on my view of Facebook apps and where they’re going, I’m going to say fun over function is going to prevail. Things like Matchtastic and a Virtual Spring Break are what Facebook users will grab on to. Nothing can be more fun than going through pictures of what spring break could be like if you could do anything.

I’m sure we’ll see more apps come that continue to duplicate existing functions on Facebook, but kudos to Weekend Apps for their first weekend. Even though they didn’t reach their goal of 20+ apps, the founders should be excited to have launched 6 apps in the first run. We look forward to seeing what they come out with in the future! Perhaps they’ll take Weekend Apps on the road (ie. Startup Weekend).

Weekend Apps is off to create 20 Facebook apps this weekend. Another weekend startup event, last night started their big adventure. After a long night, a list of potential apps has been constructed and is now underway right now:

• Hitchhiker – your friends help you get from one city to another virtually.
• Dark and Stormy Night – group collaboration on writing a story, you add a part to a story, then pass it along
• Speed dating – chat over IM to meet potential dates
• Implicit dating – select people you want to date from photos
• Give friends to friends
• Social Match – you are matched based on common interests
• Web 3.0 page editor – a canvas page where you can drag and drop content
• App to promote peace
• Finds friends you should be friends with
• Lawrence Lessig for President
• Share blogs you read
• Deface a baby – you can draw or deface baby photos

While this is just a priminary list, we’ll see if the weekend a) meets it’s goal of 20 apps, but more importantly, b) actually launches some apps by the end of the weekend. Last night the group heard some speakers on topics from Facebook app development to the legal issues of start-ups.

We’ll see what makes the list come Sunday night — and what takes off in the upcoming weeks.

Weekend Apps has thrown their web hat into the ring of weekend organizations hosting code-a-thons. How does this one differ? Well, Weekend Apps is aiming to focus on solely Facebook apps. They will be bringing in Dave Morin, the Senior Platform Manager at Facebook, as well as having several individuals who’ve built successful apps come and help mentor the young developers. To top it all off — lawyers will be on hand to help with the legal side of business development and partnering with businesses (don’t need another Scrabulous situation).

The event hopes to launch 20 apps this weekend in Santa Clara.

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