ServePath Blog

Tomorrow (March 25, 2008) is the second annual SNAP Summit held in San Francisco. SNAP Summit is a one-day, two-track conference focusing on the business and design of social applications. Held from 9:00am until 5:00pm at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, SNAP Summit promises to deliver a group of experts and timely topics.

Have you ever wondered how you could make your applications more viral or which applications advertisers like targeting the most? What will be the next “killer app” on FaceBook or is there another platform that developers or businesses should be developing on? Want to learn how to get a pre-configured, “Facebook-ready” server with a quick deployment feature? (You have to come find ServePath for that one!)

Prices are $399 online or $499 at the door. BUT, if you put in discount code “ServePath”, you get $100 off your ticket online!

Speakers include:

• Jessica Alter - Director of Platform and Business Development @ Bebo
• Kevin Barenblat - CEO @ [context]
• Jim Benedetto - VP of Technology @ MySpace
• Siqi Chen - Co-Founder/Developer @ Friends for Sale
• Jeff Clavier - Managing Partner @ SoftTech VC
• Jaren Fliesler - Director of Business Development @ Slide
• BJ Fogg - Psychology and Technology Professor @ Stanford University
• Seth Goldstein - CEO/Co-Founder @ SocialMedia.com
• Martin Green - VP of Business Development @ Meebo
• Steve Jang - CMO/Head of Business Development @ imeem
• Aaron Kahlow - Managing Partner @ BusinessOnLine
• Jeremy Liew - Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Lee Lorenzen - CEO @ Altura Ventures
• Dave McClure - Advisor/Investor @ Blogger & 500hats.com
• Dave Morin - Senior Platform Manager @ Facebook
• Jeremiah Owyang - Web Analyst @ Forrester
• Rajat Paharia - CEO @ Bunchball inc.
• Joshua Porter - Founder @ Bokardo.com
• Jim Scheinman - Entrepreneur-in-Residence @ CRV
• Jia Shen - CTO/Co-Founder @ RockYou
• Anu Shukla - CEO/Founder @ Offerpal Media

Topics include:

• Effective Social Interface Design
• Methods of Boosting User Engagement
• Metrics: Where Users Come From
• Mass Interpersonal Persuasion
• Future of the Social Platform
• Social App Exit Strategies
• Building what Users (and Advertisers) want
• Viral Tuning and Viral Marketing - Best Practices and Real Life Examples
• Legal Issues Facing Social Media Companies
• Taking that App and Making Money - how does one really do it?
• Infrastructure Scalability 101: What you don’t know CAN hurt you
• Fundraising Strategies for Startups

ServePath is one of the sponsors of this event. We will have a table and people showcasing ServePath’s newest product offering: GoGrid which allows you to deploy a fully load-balanced server network in under 10 minutes. Look for us there!