Facebook launches unified mobile website for all phones
Looks like somebody has released a major upgrade to its mobile interface. Facebook has now unified its mobile websites into one interface on m.facebook.com. It was previously set up as two separate mobile websites: touch.facebook.com, designed for high-end smartphones with touchscreens, and m.facebook.com, suited for feature phones with a touch interface. According to Erick Tseng, Facebook’s mobile chief, this change should not only provide a more consistent user interface across mobile devices, but it will make it easier for Facebook to push out new features.
Facebook also announced that 250 million people — around half its user base — are actively using Facebook mobile on a monthly basis.
Facebook for iPhone gets events check ins, maps, unfriending
Now, you won’t have to miss anything. Yesterday, Facebook updated its iPhone app, adding two new features – the ability to check-in to events and a map for seeing where all your friends are checked in. Previously, you could only check-in via Facebook Places, which meant checking-in to various locations around cities just like you do on Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and others. Now, with Facebook Places you can check-in to events as well. This new feature takes into account the time of the event and the user location to determine whether or not to allow the user to check in. Once a user checks in, that information gets posted to their wall and their friends’ timelines, as well as shows up in the list of users checked in on Facebook Places. Neat huh.
Version 3.4 of Facebook’s iPhone app also has a few other nice updates as well. These include the ability to view your friends on a map from the Places area (using Google Maps), an “improved” News Feed, an “improved” notifications UI, and the ability to unfriend someone from your phone (yes?).
