Facebook Goes Mobile

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1. Maxcon
   

   January 10th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

   Forums - I lose internect connection after clicking 2 or 3 links in the forums. Any ideas. Thanks.

2. tomorrow
   

   January 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

   who cares if “Brian Howenstein” added ‘The Dark Tower” to his favorite books? Facebook on mobile is a waste of time. IMHO

3. drew olanoff
   

   January 10th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

   Not impressed. Digg mobile? Yes.

4. Mike
   

   January 10th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

   I’ve had this on my facebook for months.. i don’t know why it’s news now. I’ve been using facebook mobile for about a month and it’s pretty sweet.

5. Alaska Miller
   

   January 10th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

   This is worth 3.5 billion dollars I say

6. Sam Jackson
   

   January 10th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

   Cingular had Facebook mobile for a while. I thought it was silly they didn’t open it up for VZW testing since then. I will complain to Zuckerberg when he comes to school in a few weeks, perhaps.

7. lemon obrien
   

   January 10th, 2007 at 2:57 pm

   no…face book is like $10B baby.

8. Yohay Elam
   

   January 10th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

   I don’t think that going mobile raises Facebook’s value. I think that today, every site that respects itself should have a decent mobile interface.
   This is especially essential after the announcement of the iPhone, something that will make online surfing more trendy.

9. Jason Sperske
   

   January 10th, 2007 at 4:26 pm

   Mobile Mixtape swapping anyone?

   RadioMixtape.com to create, listen and purchase mixtapes,

   MixBox.mobi to swap them from your phone

   I just started using m.facebook.com, it’s damn good! MySpace should be worried (all of those custom “pimped” profiles have got to start looking like extra baggage to them, while facebook gets to extend their reach without breaking their visual theme). I really think a two device approach is the way to go.
   -Jason

10. Don Wilson
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    Whats with the significant reduction in image quality for your articles?

11. lemon obrien
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    @Whats with the significant reduction in image quality for your articles?

    realism baby….realism.

12. Edward Vielmetti
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 5:34 pm

    Nice idea, not my demographic.

    Waiting for http://m.linkedin.com to appear.

13. Drama 2.0
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    Word on the street is that with this launch Facebook is now looking for $14-$16 billion. They plugged some mobile industry projections into Yahoo’s proprietary spreadsheet software and mobile should create at least $750 million in revenues from Facebook by 2015.

14. stu
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 6:36 pm

    word on the streets is that with this announcement, facebook plans on acquiring google in Q2 of this year.

15. Amy Wilsch
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 6:50 pm

    but….. why????

16. Adrian Keys
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 6:57 pm

    “I don’t think that going mobile raises Facebook’s value. I think that today, every site that respects itself should have a decent mobile interface.
    This is especially essential after the announcement of the iPhone, something that will make online surfing more trendy”. - Yohay

    Well said Yohay…but I would want to see sites built for the mobile web instead of force-feeding a PC based site on to a 3.5 inch screen.

17. Fashion Industry Ceo
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    I hate facebook!…blank

18. theharmonyguy
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    As someone alluded to here, the mobile web version of Facebook (m.facebook.com) was previously only available on Cingular. The change today is that anyone can get to it - at least, I’m now able to on my Verizon phone. I’ve using the SMS service and mobile uploads for some time, but this is the first time I’ve been able to actually access the site via my phone.

19. Grey Morsels
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 10:05 pm

    oh well. There goes my date

20. Drama 2.0
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

    stu: I heard the same thing. Marissa Mayer and Mark Zuckerburg have been seen getting pretty chummy at some of the clubs in the South Bay and I even heard that Mark wouldn’t take a call from Bill Gates about a possible buyout this past week because he was with Marissa on one of her week long vacations. Google insiders have hinted that when he buys Google, they’re going to rename the Google party plane “The Zuck.”

21. Amy Wilsch
    

    January 10th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    Drama, recycled rumors… that’s old news

22. cindy minor
    

    January 11th, 2007 at 1:09 am

    whats the point of this? who really browses websites from your phoe, and why would you need to browse facebook? pretty dumb. sites like groovr and dogeball are much better and more useful.

23. Corey
    

    January 11th, 2007 at 8:02 am

    I just spent a few minutes using the mobile page and have to say I’m really impressed. I think the most significant value comes form the “Contacts” section. If my Facebook Friends have listed their e-mail addresses and/or cell phone numbers, I can look them up very quickly through this dynamic address book. And thanks to my phone’s ability to hot-link e-mail addresses and phone numbers, I get click-to-call or click-to-write from there.

    Significantly, it also allows you manage your events easily, if you use that feature. It’s an easy way to get up-to-date event information while you are en route if it becomes necessary.

24. Brian
    

    February 22nd, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    WOW!!! That’s me on the image!

    I made TechCrunch!