I forgot to post about this earlier but it has been announced or leaked that the new Facebook app for the iPhone 3.0 software is nearly finished. This is a big deal because Facebook remains one of the iPhone's most downloaded applications. Joe Hewitt is the brains behind the original app and he has taken to his blog to announce some of the new features. The new app is cram packed with all of the features that people have been requesting since version 1 of the app was released.
Some of the features include:
- 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
- Video uploading just leaked*
I think this is exactly what needed to happen to really put Facebook ahead of MySpace. We all know the MySpace app is garbage. Now that Facebook and Hewitt have answered the cries of the people I predict we will see more of a decline in MySpace's user base. That coupled with the ability to upload video and push notifications promised for 3.1 I don't see anything stopping Facebook from really burying MySpace. Pictures attached below!
