Facebook’s Secret iPad App Exposed [Pictures]

As an aside, this is the most ridiculous pageview-inflating image gallery I've ever seen on a tech-tabloid site. It's not even possible to advance from one image to the next, you have to always go back to the main article!

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Post by apgwoz » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 10:53 AM UTC

schrototo wrote: post #4

As an aside, this is the most ridiculous pageview-inflating image gallery I've ever seen on a tech-tabloid site. It's not even possible to advance from one image to the next, you have to always go back to the main article!

I was just going to comment on this. I was curious to see what the new Facebook campus looks like, and it was the same way. "For sure, this is just that writer doing her job wrong," but no, MG's article does the exact same thing. How can you do a complete redesign, in this day and age, and not provide a usable image gallery?

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Post by ThomPete » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:08 AM UTC

Maybe I am just not getting it, maybe I am in my sceptic mood or maybe I am getting sensationalist news fatigue.

It's an iPad app yes, so what? Where someone expecting that FB wouldn't do an iPad app? Why is it secret? Does it do anything remarkable?

It seems like this is news because it's FaceBook not because the app in itself is interesting.

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Post by buddydvd » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:10 AM UTC

From the screenshots, you can see the photo viewer displaying a scrubber view (row of thumbnails). This strongly suggests that this app is built using Jeff Verkoeyen's Nimbus framework. If you're building (or built) apps using Three20, it'll probably be good idea to follow the Nimbus framework on Github.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/facebook-ipad-app-pictures/...

http://jverkoey.github.com/nimbus/interface_n_i_photo_scrubb...

https://github.com/jverkoey/nimbus

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Post by aberkowitz » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:23 AM UTC

Thanks to TechCrunch, Facebook no longer needs a marketing department.

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Post by sek » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:38 AM UTC

ThomPete wrote: post #6

Maybe I am just not getting it, maybe I am in my sceptic mood or maybe I am getting sensationalist news fatigue. It's an iPad app yes, so what? Where someone expecting that FB wouldn't do an iPad app? Why is it secret? Does it do anything remarkable? It seems like this is news because it's FaceBook not because the app in itself is interesting.

Mark Zuckerberg mentioned several times how an iPad app would be wrong, because its not really mobile or something like that and it came so incredibly late.

The second most visited site, over thousand employees and a iPad app is such a big problem. Hackathons, lockdowns, expensive Ex-Googlers, new campus and i am again totally unimpressed.

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Post by biturd » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 11:39 AM UTC

ThomPete wrote: post #6

Maybe I am just not getting it, maybe I am in my sceptic mood or maybe I am getting sensationalist news fatigue. It's an iPad app yes, so what? Where someone expecting that FB wouldn't do an iPad app? Why is it secret? Does it do anything remarkable? It seems like this is news because it's FaceBook not because the app in itself is interesting.

I agree. It is not even that good a re-release of the iPhone app. I was hoping for something to keep them relevant with what google has done. This is nothing special or groundbreaking at all. I expect better from a company that has such resources both in financial as well as people.