Hi5 OpenSocial Hackathon: Interview Mixbook

At the Hi5 OpenSocial hackathon I interviewed Andrew Laffoon CEO and Chief Mixbooker and Aryk Grosz, CTO from MixBook.
They are 2 Berkeley graduates with a really cool media sharing application, http://www.mixbook.com/.
They are porting their FaceBook application FunBook to OpenSocial.
Quotes from the interview:
About the OpenSocial API: "OpenSocial promise: one API for many sites."
Compared to the Facebook API: "Different implementations, more javascript, xml. Both sides have their merit. What developers are interested about: what are the viral channels, how can I build more applications?"
Advice for beginner social application developers: "Look at the best applications out there. A/B Test a lot, which tweaks will increase the viral boost of the application? But you need to get the right concept first."
Favorite Social applications: Causes, useful
Monetization strategy: "Mixbook lets you create beautiful things in printed media, photos, posters, we partner with top photo producers"
Technology used: Ruby on Rails
Fun Story: "We launched our Facebook apps when we were on vacations, very soon our server went down. Bad idea to launch just before taking vacations."

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• opensocial
• socialsoft
• hi5
• orkut
• facebook
• apis
• google
• events
• social
• software
• mixbook

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[landrew65]

sweet!