Topic: Making Money On Platforms - An open discussion with PayPalX, Twitter and Yahoo.

Please join us for an evening of discussion with top Platform evangelists to see what works, what they have heard from developers and how we can make the platforms work for you!

Why should you attend? Ask our Brian, the PayPalX Intern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dk6oyTlNQg

Come share your success stories with us!

Submit your questions to @PayPalX (with #xboston in your tweet) before the event or if you are not able to attend in person. 

• Do you have a success story of how you make money on a Platform? 
• What can the Platforms do to make it easy for you to make real money with your apps? 
• What other questions would you like to see answered. 

The event is free. Pizza and beer will be provided.

Agenda:

6pm:
Doors open: registration, food and networking.

6:30pm:
Making Money On Platforms - Moderator, Sean Lindsay. [http://seanlindsay.com  || @rseanlindsay]

6:45pm:
Panel responds to your submitted questions and questions from the audience.

Bios:

Praveen Alavilli, Developer Evangelist, PayPalX

Praveen Alavilli is the developer evangelist for the PayPal X Developer Network (x.com) to help developers convert their cool new ideas into successful applications and services using the PayPal's Adaptive Payments Platform. Praveen usually plays with a lot of technologies and tries to connect dots across them relating to Online Identity and Payments.

Raffi Krikorian, Twitter Platform Team, Twitter

Raffi Krikorian makes a career of hacking everything and anything. Professionally, he is the founding partner at Synthesis Studios: a technological design and consulting firm that orchestrates his disjointed train of thought. He has developed Java-based distributed/mobile software agent infrastructures while also investigating human perception of sound in zero-g with NASA. While at the MIT Media Lab, he studied and built tiny, embedded, and sub-$5 Internet nodes and while also teaching students "How to Make (Almost) Anything."

Tom Hughes-Croucher, Yahoo! Tech Evangelist, Yahoo!

Tom Hughes-Croucher is an Evangelist and Senior Developer in Yahoo's Open Strategy Group, focusing on Yahoo's Web Services and Cloud Platform. Tom has contributed to a number of Web standards for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). Previously he helped build the online music stores for Tesco, Three telecom and Channel 4. 

Sign up for free office hours [one-on-one time to discuss your questions] with the PayPalX evangelist by tweeting to @PayPalX and requesting a 30 minute time slot between 1 - 4pm on Wednesday, July 28th or Thursday, July 29th. Use #xboston in your tweet.

The Microsoft NERD Center is our gracious host! @MSNewEngland