Over the weekend RIM released the latest version of Facebook for Blackberry. So what’s new for this version of Facebook for Blackberry? Not much. Users can now opt to set the News Feed as their default landing page if they wish and there are also a few feed filters included by default. The primary upgrade is that device memory is more efficiently managed. I’m in the process of testing it now however neither the iPhone or Blackberry application have worked for me for the past few months.

For those users with more than 1,000 friends or so, there has been…

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Yesterday Joe Hewitt posted screenshots of the new Facebook iPhone application which is expected to be released in the next couple weeks . What’s most important is the addition of events which was missing from the previous two versions. Joe claims that everybody is asking for push notifications but with thousands of contacts on the site, I’m honestly fine without it! Additionally the most recent version of the news feed will be turned on, making the old iteration of the news feed inaccessible.

Joe has been the sole programmer working on this project since the beginning. One product that’s still…

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