Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
It seems like there will be a huge announcement from Facebook at Nokia World according to TechCrunch with Facebook new location based service which will go head to head with Twitter new location based API.
Well this is certainly good news, a new kid is on the block and its Symartic which is developing a new Facebook application for Symbian. They posted a cool video which I highly encourage you to check it out. It looks way cool.
“What will you do first?” asks Nokia as they unveil their new polished N97’s Facebook widget but perhaps a better question is, “Do the rest of you s60 fans feel shafted by us releasing this *wink wink*?” Its kind off like a slap in the face if you ask me and I’ll tell you why; Read more
You probably remember the song from the mid-eighties from Robert Palmer, Simply Irrestible, as soon as I saw the pictures of the upcoming Nokia flaghip mobile computer, the N97, I could not think of anything else to say but wow, wow, wow, and oh my, this machine its going to re-revolutionize an already revolutionized mobile phone industry. The N97 even has a nickname, its being called the “Facebook Mobile” for its obvious integration of the social site Facebook but it also has support for Friendster and MySpace as well. Below are the specs, read them and drool.
Specifications of the Nokia N97:
Gravity and Facebook is a match made in heaven. So the question now becomes, “How can we update our Facebook Status via our beloved Gravity ?” Its easy, first setup another Twitter account ie. Lastname + facebook, so my new twitter account is called ledesmafacebook, I guess you can really call it whatever you want but I like to add the Facebook part. Then go to iconspedia.com and search for a cool Facebook icon to add to the web Twitter account as your avatar, here is my Gravity main screen as an example.
Then goto Facebook and add the Twitter application, give it all the permissions it asks of you and put in your new twitter username account. Why create a separate Twitter ? Simple, so you don’t have to not mix your Twitter updates with your Facebook status updates.
If you want to consolidate your Twitter and Facebook updates then input your main Twitter username to the Facebook twitter application and everytime you update your Twitter then it will automatically update your Facebook as well. I personally don’t really like that, but its an option and can work for some folks who don’t really update all that much.
The second method is to use your new Twitter account which you can quickly add thru Gravity and really have the best of both worlds. Now if Gravity supported Ping.fm or Hellotxt I guess we would be total heaven, so until then, this is a very nice, smooth, and functional alternative. So go ahead and give it a try, it may work for you as well as it works for me.
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