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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.13.07/Wed/facebook.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.13.07/Wed/facebook.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f6a3f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.13.07/Wed/facebook.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Both Facebook and Netvibes launched new iPhone-optimized versions of their sites yesterday. Netvibes, the customizable homepage widget site, offers a slightly more spare version for the iPhone with slimmed-down text-only widgets to speed load times on the EDGE network. + +The Netvibes iPhone site is still in beta, but point your iPhone to [m.nv1.netvibes.com][1] and check out the RSS reader which is one of the fastest we've used on the iPhone. + +The [Facebook iPhone][2] site is also very well done and indeed it's possibly the best iPhone site we've seen -- in many ways its better than the main Facebook site. + +Four tabs across the top of the screen give one click access to your main page, your profile, friends and e-mail. A series of buttons below each tab provide most of the options for each section. The only slightly disorienting aspect of the navigation is that clicking a tab tiggers the familiar sideways navigation -- panels slide to the left. Typically tabs don't relate to horizontal responses, but perhaps that's too nit-picky for an iPhone UI. + +Whatever the case, the interface is fast (the EDGE network has been having issues this morning so I only tested it on wifi) and the overall experience is much better than trying to use the main site on the iPhone's diminutive screen. + +For a detailed look at the various Facebook screens check out the [extensive photo tour][3] that Chris Messina put up on Flickr (which is where the above screenshot comes from). + +[1]: http://m.nv1.netvibes.com/ +[2]: http://iphone.facebook.com/ +[3]: http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/sets/72157601448859006/
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