A different way to spend a Sunday - yesterday saw Facebook executives and senior members of the Facebook development team stopping by the Facebook Developer Garage Hackathon in central London. The aim of a ‘hackathon’ is to bash out a complete Facebook application in one afternoon (or one afternoon and a full night for those with the stamina), mirroring an exercise Facebook carries out internally to generate platform ideas.

Steve from Nudge talking through an idea with Mark Zuckerberg

Teams presented their entries to a panel of high-profile judges including Mr Mark Zuckerberg himself, with three winning teams going on to present their hacks to attendees and the general press at Monday’s special edition of the Facebook Developer Garage.

Nudge scored a great result, with a team headed up by Toby being chosen as one of the three winners. The app, titled “Tube Warning”, pairs Facebook Event data with the freshly released London Underground API to create a mashup that warns users of impending travel problems before they leave for their specific event.

A good (long) day was had by all - as well as some great idea’s being presented, it was also a great opportunity to chat face to face with Zuckerberg about Facebook’s intentions regarding Open Graph and Facebook for websites.

See more photos over at the Nudge Facebook Page