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May 10th Meeting: Facebook Open Graph & Building a Usability and Analytics Toolkit

Howdy everyone, we have two great topics this month that will get your mind working and provide great ideas that you can put into practice.

Event Details

7:00 – 9:00p.m. Tuesday, May 10th
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos

Let us know you’re coming! RSVP on Facebook (it’s not required, you’re always welcome). While you’re at it, check out the new Refresh Austin Facebook page!

Building a Usability and Analytics Toolkit

Judd Lyon, Partner/Technical Director at Trifecta Interactive

Most of us probably agree that getting user feedback is important, yet why do many of our projects go without it? Judd will explore combining techniques and online tools that can help you drive improvements to your site/app.

Among the topics covered will be:

Web Analytics
Online Surveys
Remote User Testing
A/B Testing
Search Engine and Social Media Tracking
Reporting Dashboards

Using Facebook Social Plugins and OpenGraph for Fun and Profit

Jon Loyens, Director of Bazaarvoice Labs

Sure it’s easy to add a Like button to your website but what do you do with it once it’s there? How can you use Facebook Login to make registration for your site easier and get more user information all at the same time? What kind of data can you mine out of Facebook OpenGraph? In this presentation, I’ll take everyone a step beyond the basics of Facebook’s social plugins and demonstrate how to use the more advanced features of the Facebook platform and give everyone a glimpse of how much data is really there to be had and used.

Refresh Roundup: Open Source Politics, Zuckerberg animosity(?), and Austin’s businesses coming together

Michelle Greer asks, Why Do Tech Geeks Want to Punch Zuckerberg in the Face? “With Beacon still in need of a major overhaul and all eyes on him for an IPO date, it looks like Zuckerberg has his hands full with Facebook.” you can see him at SXSW giving this year’s keynote.
Ryan Joy likes to find his daily paper on the doorstep in the morning. However, that paradigm fails when it’s the electronic version. Check out this PHP/cron job combo that may just bring back the nostalgia of newspaper delivery.
Andrew DuPont reports great news. Prototype 1.6 officially supports Opera. With it’s lightning fast javascript engine and DOM level 3 support, Opera is finally getting the full support it deserves… from Prototype, at least.
Whurley posed the question, Who is the best candidate for the open source community?” to the blogosphere, Twittersphere, and Interwebs. Michelle weighs in here as does Four Kitchens. I think we all cringe at the thought that our leaders may understand the Internet as a series of tubes.
Kevin Koym, with Bootstrap Austin, talks about building business ecosystems in Austin despite a possible recession. He argues that “Austin’s wired technology community has been organizing into … ‘Enterprise Tribes’ helping entrepreneurs build their businesses, recession or not.”
Boone Putney is excited by the beta release of Microsoft’s HealthVault. Privacy issues aside, Boone sees it as way to “automate a lot of the processes that are notorious originators of error in the medical industry.”
…and, of course, probably the biggest thing to come out is this week’s Refresh Austin’s SXSWi Party announcement.

That’s it for this week! If I’ve missed anything, post it in the comments.

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May 10th Meeting: Facebook Open Graph & Building a Usability and Analytics Toolkit

Event Details

Building a Usability and Analytics Toolkit

Judd Lyon, Partner/Technical Director at Trifecta Interactive

Using Facebook Social Plugins and OpenGraph for Fun and Profit

Jon Loyens, Director of Bazaarvoice Labs

Refresh Roundup: Open Source Politics, Zuckerberg animosity(?), and Austin’s businesses coming together

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