Reflections from the 4th NYC Facebook Meetup

I hosted the fourth NYC facebook meetup last week. Packed crowd, lots of great discussions, including a ton of demos. It’s clear that the deeper apps everyone’s been waiting for are just around the corner–we saw some of them last week!

We saw a great crowd this time with broad representation: big media companies (VH1), industry pundits (Jeff Jarvis), political junkies, individual and company developers (Daylife), even companies focusing exclusively on facebook (David Henderson of Social Media, which is hosting a conference on facebook apps in San Fran.)

Discussion centered around what the real numbers of installs and churn must be, future platform potential, and app monetization. The buzz around this platform is still insane, and the excitement’s only growing here in the Alley.

There’s some overzealousness apparent, but the killer apps (and there will be many) have yet to be discovered. With adoption and viral growth that’s already faster than any new technology on the web so far, it’s easy to see why people are so excited.

Jeff Jarvis has more in his writeup.