Here's an interesting article on Facebook and their stance on mobile. Oh and a comment from Facebook on the iPad.http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/27/facebooks-mobile-chief-within-1-2-years-were-going-to-be-a-mobile-company/
Moxie Mo Show: Facebook App for iPad - Finally?
Facebook has all but ignored the iPad since the very beginning. While other developers have tried to make using Facebook on the iPad more enjoyable, Facebook hasn't yet even said if they will release an app or redesign Facebook to be more touch screen friendly. They could be doing both, and on the Moxie Mo Show Blog we have the story.
Moxie Mo Show: Facebook Photo Sharing App Coming?
Twitter Issues
Seems as though Twitter is making changes to their back end and it is impacting some of the Twitter solutions that I use. Primary the ones that allow me to cross post from Twitter to Facebook and those that allow my Tweets to appear daily on KellysWorld. I read that changes were in progress, but hadn't heard they were already in place. It's all that I can think of because solutions that were working, are currently not working. It's a little annoying. Doesn't seem to be much I can do about it at the moment, one of the issues with using lots of "free" services; it makes complaining very difficult.
iPhone FaceBook Gets FaceLift
Very cool! If you like using FaceBook (come on, admit it, you do) then I bet you will like this news. FaceBook on the iPhone is about to get a face lift.
Shortly after the release of the iPhone, FaceBook had a website that worked quite well as one of the first web applications. Then when Apple opened up the phone to native applications FaceBook again provided a fix for our addition. Late last year FaceBook 2.0 came out and it was a huge hit. Both of my daughters use it daily. Now word that 3.0 is nearing completion should be music to our ears.
Back on July 1st Joe Hewitt, lead engineer for the popular iPhone application, announced that while he couldn't give an exact date on when it would be submitted to Apple he did say it was 98% complete. That's everything but the fat lady singing folks.
That should mean in the coming weeks, maybe sooner, we will have this latest version available to us on our iPhones. The one thing this update will be missing is Push Notifications, but Joe says that feature should be in 3.1 later this summer. Further evidence that 3.0 will be out soon.
A list of the announced features are below, or you can link to the original post HERE.
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The "new" News Feed
- Like
- Events (including the ability to RSVP)
- Notes
- Pages
- Create new photo albums
- Upload photos to any album
- Zoom into photos
- Easier photo tagging
- Profile Pictures albums
- A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
- Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
- Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
- Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
- Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call
