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Shake your iPhone to Add a Friend in Facebook

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iphone_facebookFor all iPhone owners out there it is now possible for you to add someone you just met right on the spot as a Facebook friend. All you need is a single bump with the use of the Bump iPhone app.

If you are unfamiliar with this iPhone app, here’s a small refresher. Bump allows you to share contact information with people by simply bumping your iPhone once with another person’s iPhone. You have to take note that the iPhones must touch each other in order for the app to work – you can not just shake your iPhone in the air. After this Bump will then connect the iPhones together and transfer your contact information.

fbiphone20-1Now, the Bump iPhone app is being updated with the help of social media giant Facebook. All you have to do is link your Facebook account to Bump and if the person you want to swap information with does the same you can now initiate a friend request on the spot. After you have sent it, a prompt would appear on the other person’s iPhone and she or he can either accept or deny your request. It is as simple as that. This has got a lot of iPhone users talking.

Bump’s Facebook integration is considered to be the first iPhone app that is able to initiate and accept friend requests. Jake Mintz, the co-founder of Bump technologies had worked closely with Facebook to make this a possibility. He also boasted that this is just the first of many social media integrations that would be coming to Bump.

Fun Games and Graphics as Adobe and AIR collaborates with Android

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Creative-Zii-Egg1After reaching a dead end on its attempt to get Flash on the iPhone, Adobe unveiled Flash 10.1 and AIR for Android is going to be part of the Open Screen Project that is expected to come around at the first half of 2010. This means that Flash and AIR developers are able to install content to all devices of Android.

This means that flash games and AIR apps are now going mobile and this starts with the Android platform. This can be an advantage for game developers since they will no longer need to create different versions of their applications and games for different devices. One version can do the job.

The announcement was made at Mobile world Congress in Barcelona. The said Open Screen Project is a consortium of about 70 companies ranging from Nokia to AOL. Through this project, Adobe is hoping that Flash and AIR would be able to be consistent part of mobile devices worldwide and they also aim to target netbooks, tablets and other devices that can support the Flash platform.

Adobe AIR gives the ability to create mobile apps for Android and this allows developers to port their creations into mobile and make use of information like GPS in their apps. This initiative is more of like a response to the one platform that does not make use of flash which is the iPhone OS. For now Adobe faces a challenge from the forthcoming web standard HTML 5 which Apple preferred over Flash.

Most mobile app developers would find that the benefits of having Flash on Android and other mobile platforms are much better than the costs it presents. By the end of this year, it is predicted that Adobe and AIR would be consistently used among numerous mobile and computer platforms. This would give a lot of reasons for developers to create new and richer media within Adobe’s framework.

So for those of you who are into games and videos or even browsing the web for other media and would want outstanding graphics and performance you can get yourself an Android phone and be amazed at what Adobe Flash and AIR has in store for you.