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The Future of the Facebook iPhone App, According to the Man Who Built It

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Aug 29, 2009

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Apple approved the first update to the Facebook app on the iPhone in almost a year yesterday and it was a huge hit. The app was built by Joe Hewitt, whose previous work includes co-creation of Firefox. With 12 million downloads, Facebook's app was the 2nd most popular free app on the iPhone platform in 2008 behind Pandora.

I spoke with Hewitt yesterday on the BadHairDay podcast and the following are three three features he identified as next steps on the app's roadmap.

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Contact list synchronization between your Facebook friends list and your phone's contact list. "It's a ToS thing more than a technical limitation," Hewitt said.

Push notifications. "We are working on push," Hewitt said last night. " I plan to have it in the next major update, the 3.1. It will be the same kind of notifications you get on the website. I probably won't right off the bat give you chat notifications. If you've ever used FB's SMS notifications, you can have pretty granular control and it will be the same level of notification in terms of whose notifications you see and what

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