Third-Party Facebook Mobile Utility Apps Integrate Hardware to Offer Lightweight Social Experiences

Several developers released new Facebook-integrated mobile web apps today to coincide with the launch of Facebook’s mobile application platform. The Huffington Post, Flixster, AudioVroom and others provide an early showcase of the potential of the platform, including the ability to integrate with a mobile device’s GPS, media player, audio output, and more.

While less full-featured than Facebook web apps and slower than native smartphone apps, these third-party Facebook mobile platform apps demonstrate how lightweight experiences built on top of the social graph can provide utility.

Here’s how four of the utility app mobile platform launch partners are integrating social and native phone features into their mobile Facebook apps:

HuffPost for Facebook– The Huffington Post’s news reader mobile web app shows a iOS hardware access request to “use your current location”, which allows it surface local news from its Patch network in a “Nearby” tab.

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