And what about Facebook?

As with the iPhone SDK v3.0, another future plateform we will aim at is obviously Facebook.

We will create an application, easier than the original Geoviu website and than the iPhone application of course, to quickly enable the user, in just one glance, to view the most important news around the world at that precice moment he or she has logged on Facebook and share it with his friends.

By the way, let’s have a quick reminder about Facebook:

• Well, as nearly everyone knows now, it’s the first commmunity website in terms of members with 175 million in march 2009;
• It’s the 5th most visited website worldwide;
• Due to the recent 1.7% share bought by Microsoft in 2007 at 240 million dollars, Facebook  has been evaluated at about 15 billion dollars;
• Its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, born in 1984, is the youngest billionaire with an estimated fortune of 1.5 billion dollars.

As you may already know, and maybe have already used, several google mashups have already found their place on Facebook as:

• Where I’ve been (the most popular map-based application on Facebook);
• Travel Map, Cities I’ve Visited, Mapster (show your past and future travels);
• Friend Map, Map Friends, My friends map (see where your friends are/live);
• Map App (sharepoints, services around you);
• Love Map, my Wedding map (dating and relationship applications).

Unfortunately, many of these map-based applications look alike on the concept itself and the corresponding possibilities.

In conclusion, what we lack right now is experience with community based interface to allow the user to add and share information from our future Facebook application to his Facebook contacts.

Anyway, it sure will make a nice and useful addon after our iPhone application and we cannot wait to put it online! But patience folks: Geoviu beta Facebook Application is not expected online before this summer!