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The Economic Times
Facebook is letting users of its flourishing social-networking community play together on the road by using Apple's popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices.
Facebook senior platform manager Dave Morin revealed the news Saturday while flanked by an array of hip social software makers at a panel talk at South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.
"For the first time, your iPhone apps can now have friends," Morin said before panelists demonstrated applications that expand the borders of Facebook's online community onto iPhones and iPod Touch devices.
Facebook Connect for the iPhone debuted with nine applications available at Apple's online iTunes store and a promise that more will launch in coming days.
Mini software programs tailored to mesh with the Facebook operating platform let social-networking service users play games with each other online, share restaurant reviews while on the move, and locate friends.
Facebook members can use the community-oriented applications through iPhones as they would if they were connecting through a home computer.
Facebook launched Connect last year as a way to break down the walls between the social networking service and other websites and services on the Internet.
Applications demonstrated to applause from a packed conference room at SXSW included a "Who has the Biggest Brain" game by Playfish and a new SGN "Agency Wars" game enabling users to play government spies.
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