RSSBreaking: Facebook Announces Facebook Platform for Mobile; Facebook for Blackberry
October 24th, 2007
This just in - today at CTIA, Facebook is announcing Facebook Platform for Mobile. With Facebook Platform for Mobile, current Facebook Platform developers will be able to extend their applications to work on mobile phones and devices as well.
Facebook currently operates a site optimized for most mobile phone browsers at m.facebook.com, and another specifically for iPhones at iphone.facebook.com. In addition, Facebook Mobile allows users to receive Facebook notifications via SMS and upload mobile photos to Facebook directly.
With Facebook Platform for Mobile, Facebook users can opt-in to sending and receiving text messages from Platform applications, and interact with applications on Facebookâs mobile sites. Any phone that can access one of Facebook’s mobile sites will be able to access Platform applications on their mobile phone
Also today, Facebook and Research In Motion (RIM) are announcing the launch of a Facebook application for BlackBerry. Facebook for Blackberry will use the push-based BlackBerry system architecture. More details soon…
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October 24th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
[...] at CTIA, Facebook announced support for mobile versions of Facebook applications. Well at least kind of. I’m not entirely [...]
October 24th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
keep us updated on the blackberry app