Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to Include Video Uploading for 3GS Owners

July 3rd, 2009

By Justin Smith

We’ve heard a lot of people say the iPhone’s built-in support for YouTube video uploading is going to make a huge impact on the number of people posting videos online. That number could grow even more now that Facebook’s upcoming Facebook for iPhone 3.0 app is going to include video uploads – especially amongst people who want to easily post their videos online for friends and family to see, but not the general public.

Joe Hewitt, the lead engineer on Facebook’s iPhone app, says, “3GS video uploading for the Facebook iPhone app is a go — didn’t plan to include it in the 3.0 update, but it was really easy to code.”

Developers and marketers should prepare for many more user-generated videos shuffling around the Facebook ecosystem in the coming months.

In addition to including video uploads for iPhone 3GS users, Facebook for iPhone 3.0 will include the “new” News Feed, Events Likes, Notes, Pages, a new home page, and a variety of other features. However, Push Notifications, which are in high demand, will be included in Version 3.1 later this summer, Hewitt says. A release date has not been announced.

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5 Responses to “Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to Include Video Uploading for 3GS Owners”

Maff Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
see Babbler and Bloo on Android, built with no help from Facebook and without access to the internal API that the iPhone’s allowed and we can already do things like video upload. Not that you’ll hear about it on here because they “don’t do Android”
Now You Can Easily Upload Photos and Videos to Facebook by Email Says:
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
[...] 3GS users will be able to upload video directly using the forthcoming Facebook for iPhone 3.0. But users of many other mobile devices will now be able to easily upload videos to Facebook for [...]
Facebook’s Internal Stats Show People Are Sharing More Says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:11 pm
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LaShena M. Griffin Says:
November 1st, 2009 at 3:55 am
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Ugues Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 7:35 am
I need help plz I can’t singne in on facbook in my iPhone