There are a slew of iPhone applications coming up because of the growing popularity of Apple's iPhone. Aiming to expand its community base, the social networking site Facebook announced its iPhone & iPod touch application last week. Facebook announced "Facebook Connect for the iPhone" on March 14 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) 2009 conference.

The 'Facebook Connect for the iPhone' is the first application to offer live social experience for iPhone and iPod Touch users. It helps to connect the iPhone and iPod Touch users with their Facebook friends. They can play games and share a lot other information with their Facebook friends.

The best thing about the 'Facebook Connect for the iPhone' app is that it lets users to login to Facebook right from the app to find their friends, and share what they do. The users can share their personal info, share restaurant reviews, and provide location-based status updates, and more to their friends.

In a company's March 14 blog post, Joe Hewitt, the engineer who developed Facebook for iPhone, wrote, "A few months ago, we announced Facebook Connect, an extension of Facebook Platform that makes it easy for you to bring your friends with you all over the Web. We're now expanding this to Apple's revolutionary iPhone and iPod touch, making it easy to connect with your Facebook friends in your favorite applications from Apple's App Store."

Hewitt elaborated, "If you've used Facebook Connect on the Web, this will seem pretty familiar. You can now use Facebook Connect on your iPhone in the same way you can for a website. Simply download any application featuring Facebook Connect and log in using your Facebook account from your iPhone. Then, you'll be able to easily find your Facebook friends. They will be able to see the same profile information as they can on the site, controlled by your privacy settings. You can also share what you're doing with your iPhone applications with all of your Facebook friends by publishing stories back to your profile,"

In the blog, Facebook engineer, Gareth Davis wrote, "Facebook Connect easily lets developers make their websites and desktop applications more social. And with the explosion of iPhone apps over the last year, we want iPhone developers to reap all the benefits Facebook provides."

Meanwhile, Limbo, the United States' well known mobile social network, also declared that Limbo for iPhone and iPod touch now features Facebook Connect for iPhone.

In a statement, Limbo's CEO, Jonathon Linner said, "Our members want a new way to share their experiences from their iPhone or iPod touch with friends who may not yet be Limbo members. Now that Limbo features Facebook Connect for iPhone, they can easily share and distribute information and experiences with their friends via Facebook status updates, requests and notifications. The location-aware emphasis of the Limbo application enables users to find and meet up with their friends to increase face time and real world experiences. This makes it even easier to connect with friends in the real world, not just online."