02.21.08

London Town

Posted in General, AlterSage at 11:13 am by Christine

Just flew into London last night. A long flight brought us safely to a cold London. Cold compared to the beautiful summer days of Cape Town we have just left.

Quite an exciting trip for us at AlterSage as we’re planning on visiting our clients located in and around London whilst we are here.

In addition we are also eager to meet up with new individuals and agencies looking to learn more about our services, potential outsource purposes and new opportunities. We have proven global experience in just about every facet of online marketing for a wide range of industries. Three of the additional benefits of working with us is of course the significant reduction on cost based on our location and exchange rate; English; and similar time zones!

It’s going to be a busy 10 days to fit our ambitious plans into - but we are really looking forward to this. We’re definitely also throwing in some sight-seeing must-do’s and visits to friends in between.

Travelling with me is my hubby, Joey - champion of FormFunction - a digital consultancy specialising in web and mobile application development with a strong focus on web 2.0 and social media applications. With Social Media Applications really being a hot-topic (yes, still!) Joey has great insights to bring to meet-ups too!

If you are in the abouts or wish to meet-up with us over coffee (or tea ), we welcome the opportunity. We are in London from today until Thursday the 28th before we head further afield. Please contact me directly at christine [at] altersage [dot] com or skype on “altersage”.

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02.13.08

FB Developer Garage Cape Town 2 Rocked

Posted in AlterSage, Events at 4:16 pm by Christine

Last night was the sequel to the first FB Developer Garage Cape Town that was held in October 2007.

This event was driven by FormFunction a recently launched digital consultancy already making great headway in the Social Media App sphere in South Africa.

Held at the Leslie Social Sciences Building at the UCT Upper Campus, it proved a really nice location and served the purpose for this event. Smooth registration, great FB swag, sponsored drinks from Joyent, food supplied by Butlers and of course a t-shirt to all attendees proved ingredients for a great evening.

In general the event was really well put together and everything turned out great despite the last minute drop-off by two of the night’s speakers . The turn-out compared to the first event was a bit lower. There was a confirmation total of just under 90 guests and by my last count it was around 40 people that were at the event. However the people that were there, were definitely there for networking, finding new business and learning new tips and tricks from other developers. It was great to see all the networking going on, which really does make one feel that you belong to a little community.

The format: This time there were 8 speakers in total (of which 2 unfortunately dropped out last minute) and each had about 20 minutes to present their topic. 4 speakers pre-break and 4 speakers post, thereafter a communal Q&A to speakers.

The speakers on the night: Chris Mills: MC - FormFunction, Christine da Silva: Importance of Usability of Facebook Applications - AlterSage, Tim Lambrechts: The process of managing a Facebook Application client - WiredCommunications, Joey da Silva: Developer Tips for Managing client expectations - FormFunction, Jacques Marneweck: Introduction to Memcache - PowerTrip, Steven Bayhack & Grant Fleming: Facebook Application Monetization - TextStream.

The topics were really well presented, and compared to the last one you can see that a lot more time had been spent around the platform and getting to know the tricks of the trade. The Q&A session also really drilled down to the nitty-gritty, with questions ranging from the sustainability of applications to initial launch and buy-in and a few questions about information scraping and security.

It was really enjoyable and we look forward to the next one, which I believe will be closer to September, so keep watching the CT Dev group on FB.

As per the last event, I’m sure that FormFunction will make the presentations available to all those interested. I’m sure all attendees will be duly notified via the FB group .

Well done again! Looking forward to the next one!

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