Facebook for iPhone 3.0: Your Little Black Book?
Parties are fun, but a really great party means the morning after is spent untagging photographs on Facebook. You were having a perfectly good time until some amateur lens jockey decided to give you the double chin treatment and then have the gall to tag it. If you're at all modest (or vain), you might as well start changing your privacy settings now. According to Justin Smith at Inside Facebook, Engineer Joe Hewitt just submitted the official Facebook for iPhone 3.0 app to the App Store for review. The new release will build upon a number of the community's social features including the ability to create albums, zoom into images, improve photo tagging and add video.
The current Facebook for iPhone application is used by nearly 25% of all iPhone owners or roughly 12 million monthly active users. With the new app's photo and video features, if you aren't diligent in your untagging, your work mates might just get an eyeful of your weekend blunders or bathing suit body. Then again, if you're looking to land a date, this might be a great way to socialize. Facebook for iPhone 3.0 offers a great way to see status updates, rsvp to mixers and parties, and the ability to call contacts directly from the Friends page. With these new features, your social calendar might just fill up and you might end up trading in your little black book for a big blue network.
While Hewitt admits that the Facebook app's video feature is a last minute incorporation, it will be interesting to see if the decision to add it will cut into the user base of existing Twitter video apps.
To keep an eye on the Facebook for iPhone application process or to discuss the app, follow Joe Hewitt on Twitter (@joehewitt)or check out the Facebook for iPhone page for new photos.
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Great, one more reason not to use the iPhone as an actual phone...
At some point they need to change it's name to the iApp(with phone capability)!
Hey its really great news that facebook is also available now for IPhone 3.0. It will surely helps IPhone developers to work with facebook and developed more promising applications. Great info and apps. Thanks for update
Can't wait to get my hands on the latest version. The new notes features will be very handy
I too can't wait for the new Facebook app! Facebook is cannibalizing everything but I think that's largely a good thing in regard to sharing media and the details of your life over the web amongst people you care about. My older family members are on it now and they never bother with Flickr/Vimeo/Twitter/etc unless I directed them there.
That said, Facebook is increasingly becoming open and public, and the nature of a black book is one that is closed and extremely private. I'm not going to post private media on Facebook, an entirely separate app is required for that. :)
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Disclaimer: this is an app my company built.
Just so you know v3.0 of the Facebook won't support push notifications (via the developer I spoke with). He said push will be included in v3.1
Many people get impressed by this facebook apps for iPhone. And they really wants to look forward for more. Thanks for info