RockYou is among the top two most popular application development groups. They have applications including XMe, Likeness, Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and others. I had the opportunity to interview Jia Shen, the CTO and co-founder of RockYou back in August. Jia was present at both the Community Next event as well as the Graphing Social Patterns event, both of which I attended last week. Below is a video of him speaking at Community Next about the business of Facebook applications.

I had the pleasure to hang out with Dan Peguine, developer of the Honesty Box application, at the Community Next conference. I covered Honesty Box back at the beginning of June. Since then, the application has gone on to become one of the most popular applications on the site. Below is a video of Dan talking about his experience with the Honesty Box application.

Back at the beginning of June I covered the Free Gifts application. Since then, the application has continued to grow and now has around 350,000 active daily users and over 3.5 million users in total. Many people thought that the Free Gifts application would be banned by Facebook but Facebook has instead embraced the application. Even Facebook employees that I’ve seen speak frequently reference the free gifts application. Below is a video of Zack Allia talking about his experience developing and scaling his application at Community Next.

Keith Schacht and Ben Pollack were two of the developers that worked on building the Grow-A-Gift application. Mark Achler then partnered with Ben Pollack while Keith went off and started his own company. Below is a video of all three of them discussing the Grow-A-Gift application. Check it out!

Joe Winterhalter and Eric Diep developed an immensely popular application called Quizzes. Quizzes does exactly what you would imagine it to do: create custom quizzes. The benefit of this application is that your friends can take the quiz directly from your profile. We hadn’t reviewed this application on here previously. Instead we reviewed another quizzes application that failed to gain as much traction.

If you want to place quizzes on your profile that your firends can take, then this application is for you. Go check out the Quizzes application or listen to Joe and Eric discuss their experience building the application below.

Below is a pretty entertaining video of Paul McKellar discussing his SocialMoth application (which we previously reviewed) at the Community Next event. The application enables users to post anonymous confessions somewhat similar to post secret but a little more creatively. I’ll let Paul explain the rest.

Over the next couple days I’m going to post all of the videos from the Community Next event and Graphing Social Patterns. Below is a video of Ian Swanson from Userplane. Unfortunately the video display ratio is a little messed up so it looks slightly distorted. I tried to fix this and hopefully future videos will have a better ratio. Either way, here is the first video in a series of videos from Community Next.

My good friend Frank Gruber just posted a video of Mark Zuckerberg’s chat with Mike Arrington at the Techcrunch 40 event. If you didn’t get the opportunity to see it, I have embedded it below. Enjoy!

Thanks to Jeremiah Owyang who just posted this great video Jeffrey Sass. I gotta admit, my brain has been feeling a bit scrambled as well recently. Much of it is due to my Facebook addiction!

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