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A few months ago, we announced Facebook Connect, an extension of Facebook Platform that makes it easy for you to bring your friends with you all over the Web. We're now expanding this to Apple's revolutionary iPhone and iPod touch, making it easy to connect with your Facebook friends in your favorite applications from Apple's App Store.

If you've used Facebook Connect on the Web, this will seem pretty familiar. You can now use Facebook Connect on your iPhone in the same way you can for a website. Simply download any application featuring... Facebook Connect and log in using your Facebook account from your iPhone. Then, you'll be able to easily find your Facebook friends. They will be able to see the same profile information as they can on the site, controlled by your privacy settings. You can also share what you're doing with your iPhone applications with all of your Facebook friends by publishing stories back to your profile.

For instance, you can use Facebook Connect with the Urban Spoon application. Once connected, you can see which restaurants your friends have reviewed on the iPhone as you are walking to dinner and share your thoughts afterwards.



With the game, "Who Has the Biggest Brain" by Playfish, you can connect with Facebook and try to beat your friends' scores, whether they are on their iPhone or their computer.



Win or lose, you'll have the option to publish a story back to Facebook, where all of your friends can see it. Sharing with your friends is easy with Facebook Connect for iPhone.



We've worked closely with a lot of developers to make Facebook Connect for iPhone available today. Use your Facebook account to find places to meet your friends using maps on Whrrl or challenge your friends to play Agency Wars, Binary Game, iBowl, Live Poker and Tap Tap Revenge 2.

In the coming days, many more applications will be available in Apple's App Store so keep checking back. If you don't see your favorite iPhone application soon, ask the developer to implement Facebook Connect – together we can make your application experience on the iPhone truly social.


Joe Hewitt, the engineer who built Facebook for iPhone, can't wait to connect with his Facebook friends on his iPhone.

Last August we launched our Facebook iPhone website, and almost a year later it has over 1.5 million people using it regularly. We are thrilled to see so many enjoying Facebook on their iPhones, so we've been working on ways to take our iPhone experience to the next level. Today, Apple has opened the doors to its App Store which features a new application we've created: Facebook for iPhone.

You're probably wondering what makes our iPhone application different from our iPhone website. The bottom line is that applications built for the iPhone... have access to more technology than websites. For example, with the native application you can take photos with the iPhone's camera and upload them instantly to your Mobile Uploads album on Facebook. You'll also find the native application is much faster than the website, giving you more reliable access to your Friends, Photos, and Inbox.

Facebook for iPhone also brings one important new feature to the iPhone - Facebook Chat. Wherever you are, you'll be able to see which of your Facebook friends are online and chat with them for free.

The first version of Facebook for iPhone is just a glimpse of the future. For instance, the iPhone has the ability to find where you are located, and we are looking for ways to let you opt-in to share your location and discover nearby friends. We're developing this and several other exciting new features that we'll release in the coming months.

Facebook for iPhone works with the original iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPhone 3G. You can download the application for free from Apple's App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/

Joe, a Facebook engineer, built Facebook for iPhone.

The iPhone hasn't even been out for two months yet, but it has
already changed the way people think about the mobile web. Today we are taking our first step into that new mobile world with a new Facebook website designed just for iPhone at iphone.facebook.com.

Facebook for iPhone not only looks wonderful on that big touch screen, it makes it easier than ever to stay connected with your friends wherever you are. If you are like me, you may find yourself updating your status a bazillion times a day once you have Facebook in your pocket... everywhere you go. The site lets you search for people with just a few quick taps and call your friends directly from their profiles. Facebook events become even easier with your iPhone, as you can quickly look up maps and directions on the go.

The iPhone site is the second in our family of Facebook mobile sites. If you don't have an iPhone, check out the original Facebook Mobile at m.facebook.com.



Joe, a Facebook engineer, is updating his status from his iPhone.