The first German Facebook Developer Garage in Hamburg was a big success. We are thrilled about the very positive feedback we have received so far. We would like to thank all of you for your active attendance. With your contribution to the whole event, we were able to get a great Facebook Developer Garage in the Handelskammer Hamburg going.

In order to make the next event even more successful we would be thankful for any helpful suggestions you may have. Feel free to contact us directly at nina.seidel@cellitygroup.com. Later on, we will sum up your feedback and post a list of the best ideas for the next Garage in the “Facebook Developer Garage Germany” group 

Are you interested in some of the presentations? We placed it here at your disposal. Garage party pictures are published in the “Facebook Developer Garage Germany” group. Take a look!

Best regards,

Your Facebook Developer Garage Organisation Team

Nina Seidel, Sunday, April 20, 2008

Sarik Weber, our VP Marketing and Founder of cellity, met Om Malik of GigaOM in the US. He brought him up to speed on our company, but he also mentioned that we had launched a Facebook application that allows you to send free SMS messages to anyone worldwide. Om Malik signed up for the app but also looked at the competitive landscape and found that there are around three dozen (free) SMS-related apps, but they have little or no usage. Even the best ones get about 500 users a day, though most have fewer than 50 daily users. (Related story: 5 Ways to SMS for free.) The state of these SMS apps is no different from many social voice applications (voice widgets). The only difference being that the VoIP widgets have high incidence of installs but comparatively low daily usage.

These two examples made him question the viability of Facebook as a communications hub. Oms columnist Daniel Berninger has eloquently made an argument for a social directory that uses Facebook and other social networks to break away from the current paradigm of numeric phone numbers. He is part of a group that believes social networks could be used to authenticate our “communication” relationships. Om Malik does not necessarily disagree with Daniel, but the usage metrics of SMS and voice apps makes him wonder if Facebookers really want to do anything more than throw Vampire Bites, Scrabble and pretend to have a lot of friends.

What is cellity freeSMS?
cellity freeSMS is a easy way to send and receive text messages directly from your Facebook Account to any mobile worldwide.

Why did you make it?
Since cellity freeSMS is such a success on mobile, we wanted to give the same functionality to all Facebook users too.

What does a freeSMS message cost?
freeSMS Messages are completely free. You may send and receive unlimited messages a day.

What countries can I send freeSMS to?
cellity freeSMS works in and to any country in the world. However there may be a few carriers that block our messages. Just try it, its free.

Do I need the mobile application to use freeSMS on Facebook?
Short answer: No
Complete answer: freeSMS on Facebook is fully working without the mobile application installed. However we recommend you to install the mobile application. It’s cool to have the possibility to send and receive messages on Facebook and on your mobile simultaneously.

When someone answers my message I sometimes get an SMS that I should download freeSMS. Why?
It’s just a reminder from us to install the mobile version. If you install the mobile version, this will never happen again.

Join here the cellity freeSMS facebook app.