Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

Facebook’s iPhone application is a splashing app that has blended several messaging features into an outstanding and promising service. The newly launched app facilitates its users with Instant messaging functionality. It has integrated Facebook IM service and has hell lot of features that will be a boon to iPhone and Facebook users.

The new app brings versatility to your Facebook-ing  through a iPhone- Facebook Chat feature. Without paying a single penny, you can check your friends’ status and chat with them with high degree of mobility.

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Mark Rizzn Hopkins argues that the Internet is built on two cornerstones: sex and hate. According to Mark "You’ll have griefers anywhere there’s a group of people, and if there’s anywhere that creativity’s encouraged, folks will use that creativity to come up with new ways to talk about, view, or engage in virtual sex."

I however would disagree with it, I think that not just the Internet, our entire society is built on two cornerstones, sex and greed (this is what you call money too). This is not something that we our generation has defined, it has been this way since the beginning of civilization.

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The stage has been set, the teams made up on; one side we have ‘Fire Yang’ Icahn and ‘Ball me’ Ballmer against the one man; the father of all trouble for them both; ‘I wont Quit’ Yang. That’s exactly how the scene has been set and Jerry Yang is continually making headlines; yesterday it was his firing at WSJ and today he was off with Kara Swisher’s Boomtown. What is Jerry up to? Or to be more precise what does Icahn want with his jib jab, a Kung-fu kick? Martial arts is none of our concern but the most recent Yangy words speak at drilling Icahn-Microsoft team a million holes.

He keeps juggling these words in response to all that Icahn or Microsoft comes out with; perhaps the three have taken up a default sentence to hurl whenever one of them makes a news break and why not? Default is Power isn’t it?

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Google, the search engine giant, has launched the Google Mobile app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app is currently available in the U.S. App Store. Although Google has put its hand on various other services and has gained success in most of them, they always stick with the basics i.e. ‘Search’.

The new application is accessible in the form of free download at Apple’s latest launched App Store which does a lot more than just search. Furthermore it also searches the iPhone/iPod Touch for stuff like contacts. If you wana customize search for different items like Wikipedia entries, news, etc., you can easily do it.

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Jott for iPhone is the ultimate mobile notepad that turns your voice into notes. Just tap the record screen and leave a note with your voice, Jott will then turn that note into text and add it to your Jott notepad or any of your lists. To get the same satisfaction of completing something on a paper list, cross off any item by swiping your finger across it on your Jott list. No matter where you are, now adding something to your notepad is as quick and easy as saying “Get strawberries for dessert.�

What Jott basically does it that it’s fulfilling a gap in iPhone’s features. Every phone nowadays has an option to record and take short notes, but sadly or shockingly this isn’t in the default features of the iPhone. Luckily this App is available as a free download. With Jott, note taking is taken a step further, as the voice notes are converted to text which can then be used to email anyone. The notes can be backed up and synced with the server. It also provides organizational features for your notes which can be made into lists and prioritized.

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When you go overdrive at outgrowing your competitors you often tend to unsettle those whom you have built yourself upon and the case is similar with Facebook. Eric Eldon reports of a rumor saying that the latest ‘out’ in Facebook is Jeff Hammerbacher and Facebook has confirmed the final notice issued by Jeff.

Being a Harvard acquaintance of Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg; Jeff was recruited from his job as an analyst in Bear Sterns in Wall Street and had been the core builder of Facebook’s data team, building it up from ground zero. The job of his team is to continually monitor the behavior of users that is used for finding change in traffic patterns and various other information; associated to the making of new product that eventually effects the business decision. Not only that, Jeff with his team has built the company’s software web with two open source software projects for the public.

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Shazam is another iPhone application. This application provide you with features that can make your iPhone beat Sony Ericsson Walkman phones on any day. For those of you who know about Sony Ericsson Walkman phones, you’d know that they come with a TrackID feature. That is exactly what Shazam does but takes it one step further by providing more rich features.

For those of you who do not know what TrackID is, it’s a free music recognition service which records a short music clip from the FM radio or an external music source and send it to servers over the internet, to provide you with the song title, artist and album name. Shazam lets you identify music in the same way, but with it, you can also build your own soundtrack ( we have no idea how that’s possible ! ), it will link you to the iTunes store to the recognized track, and also show you related music videos to the queried music! ( we think this is the killer feature Shazam! ). It also lets you tag music, even with photos, and to share track details with a friend.

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Apple’s App Store has recently launched Twitterrific, a popular desktop client of Twitter that allows its users to read and publish posts or tweets to the Twitter network. The service  is yet another addition in a long list of Apple’s newly launched online App store that offers bundles of exquisite and crispy software for Apple’s mobile hardware users.

Twitterrific being a desktop client will bring an edge of support for the iPhone and iPod touch users. The mobile version provides an ease to Twitter lovers as you can optimized it according to your compatibility for either left or right handed use. It provides a great degree of flexibility to its users as they can easily attach photos, locations, specify favourites and the list goes on.

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MySpace might have lost the number one place to Facebook, but they aren’t giving up yet. They have also released their iPhone application to compete with Facebook in the mobile market ( or shall we say the iPhone market! ). MySpace has reported an explosive increase in mobile traffic, crossing 2.5 billion page views in May compared to the 1.4 billion page views in March. This is why MySpace can recover lost market share in the mobile space.

MySpace App is free to download from the App Store. The interface blends in with the iPhone really well. Also some of the distinguished features of this App are:

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With NDA lifted as iPhone makes way to the market, the App Store goes live as well with talks already heating up over the countless applications already available. The store came to life this morning with almost 550+ applications that range from Super Monkey Ball to something as simple as an Abacus. The prices are as diverse as the applications available with the Abacus for $0.99; letting you count and customize the abacus in your way.

With the downloading of iTunes 7.7 you can make purchases of the applications from the store directly. Apart from the purchases made iTunes also lets you get all the information you need for the particular application you would like to purchase.

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