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Facebook has become one of the most popular social networking service. According to its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is growing at the rate of 3% every week. If you haven’t used Facebook yet; I really recommend trying it.

What can we do on Facebook from our mobile device? There are basically three things, i.e.:

• Mobile Web. Browse Facebook web site from http://m.facebook.com.

• Mobile Uploads. Upload notes and pictures by sending multimedia message to notes@facebook.com or photos@facebook.com. Most S60 devices are able to send multimedia message to an email address.

• Mobile Texts. Update your status by sending text message to FBOOK (32665). You can also do many other things by sending text message, for example poke your friend and write to your friend’s wall. To update your status simply send text message started with “@” (see screenshot below).

Note that before using text message service, you have to register your phone number. Unfortunately, as of writing of this posting, only US and Canada numbers are supported.

Bonus Links

• Overview of Facebook Mobile

Wikipedia is one the first places I visit to search for information on the Internet (besides Google, of course). Unfortunately, the current Wikipedia is not “mobile” friendly. If you load Wikipedia home page using the built-in S60 Web browser, you would see something like below.

Personally, I hate doing horizontal scrolling. It’s quite annoying for me. There is a solution for this problem, for example using Opera Mini to load Wikipedia page.

Today, I read an interesting posting on Lifehacker.com about Top 10 Wikipedia Tricks. It mentioned a web site, called Wapedia (http://www.wapedia.mobi) that reformat Wikipedia pages to our mobile devices. As you can see in the screenshots below, the layout of Wikipedia page is much better than above.

To use Wapedia, simply run your S60 Web browser and type http://www.wapedia.mobi.

There are some IM (Instant Messaging) applications for S60 already. There is EQO Mobile, a free VoIP application that supports IM. There are some commercial IM applications as well, such as Agile Messenger and IM+.

Palringo is a free IM application. It is available in several platforms, which includes S60 3rd Edition. Palringo supports all popular IM services, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and Jabber.

If you don’t want to spend money on your IM application, I highly recommend Palringo.

Click here to download Palringo