Facebook Connect expands beyond iPhone to mobile web
Last March, Facebook released Facebook Connect for iPhone, which allowed iPhone application developers to integrate Facebook’s social features into their mobile applications. Today, at Nokia World in Stuttgart, Germany, the company announced a version for other smartphones.
It’s called Facebook Connect for Mobile Web, and, as with the iPhone version, it gives app developers an easier way to reach Facebooks’s users and their data. Availability on Nintendo’s DSi came earlier this month.
Facebook Connect, which was launched… Continue Reading
Is Facebook becoming a new mobile advertising platform?
One of the most explosive successes over the past year has been Apple’s iPhone. Now, with tens of thousands of developers building applications to run on the iPhone, these developers are looking for the next step: a nice way to make money from all the users they’re getting through the iPhone.
Turns out, Facebook might be a good place to start. If say, a popular game application gets a user to sign in using their Facebook… Continue Reading