Fring gets Facebook, other third-party add-ons
(Credit: Fring)After so many announcements for this or that application’s Facebook appearance, it’s nice to see Facebook play a supporting role in kind.
On Tuesday, Fring, a VoIP and IM application for a range of mobile phones, added the ability to fold Facebook into the communicator, through a new Settings menu option called ‘fringAdd-ons‘. Gmail Notifier, Orkut, vTap videos, and Yandex.mail are also in there also, together representing the first extensions created by third-party developers using Fring’s API.
Exactly how many add-ons join this handful will depend on Fring’s popularity with casual developers. Fring is not the only mobile software company opening its API to programmers. In fact, crowdsourcing software authors is now seen as integral to a mobile software publisher’s strategy and success. iPhone is the biggest honcho to have more recently welcomed developers, and the success of Google Android as a mobile platform is tied to the mostly independent developers fighting to win big money for their grand ideas and edgy implementations.
So far, connector programs like the Facebook add-on are a good start. Relatively easy to make, programs like these help Fring close in on bragging rights for being the most far-reaching social networking hub out of all the multinetwork text and VoIP communicators without putting forth additional development dollars.
FringAdd-ons are currently available for the latest versions of Nokia Symbian 9, Sony Ericsson UIQ, and Windows Mobile.
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Fring gets Facebook, other third-party add-ons
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