Last summer Facebook announced plans to bring Facebook Connect to the iPhone. And now almost a year later, those plans have finally come to fruition with the first apps launching on the service this weekend.

Essentially what Facebook Connect lets you do is utilize the same apps that you use on Facebook except on your iPhone. When you use the application on your iPhone while you’re on the go you have the option to post information about the game you’re playing or app you’re using on your Facebook wall and interact with Facebook simultaneously.

Currently the service is available with Playfish, SGN, Flixter Urbanspoon, Tapulous, Whrrl, Zynga, and the Binary game. The iPhone is the first device to get Facebook Connect support, with the service theoretically extending to other device in the future.

The service certainly offers a pretty good opportunity to both Facebook and iPhone application developers. Now rather than develop a game for just one of the platforms they can create one game that is used on both, and promote it in both places. All of the applications will also be available on the iPod Touch as well as the iPhone.

I’m all for integrating things over several different platforms. Unfortunately most of the applications that are currently supported by Facebook connect are simply things that I personally wouldn’t want to really use while I was out and about on my iPhone. I can see the functionality of adding things like word games or the like where you have “turn” you need to play, but things like Flixter just sort of seem, well … dumb to me.

Can you ever see yourself wanting to post things you do in applications to your Facebook wall while you’re using your iPhone or other cell phone? What sorts of applications would you like to see added to Facebook Connect?

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Entry was posted on Saturday, March 14th, 2009 at 8:52 pm under Internet, Social Media, Technology.

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