Facebook 3.0 for iPhone: The New King of Video?

If you’ve been following the Facebook for iPhone Facebook page, you know that Facebook 3.0 for the iPhone is coming very soon. The application has been submitted to Apple for approval, and – though this process doesn’t always go smoothly – we can expect it in the app store in a day or two.

Of course, the new version brings many improvements – check here for a list – but one of them, added somewhat unexpectedly, towers above the rest: video uploading.

Now, while Facebook is immensely popular when it comes to uploading photos, when it comes to videos, it seems that the majority of users still prefer YouTube. But the new iPhone 3GS can finally record videos, and if the new Facebook app for iPhone makes it dead simple to upload them to Facebook (which it hopefully will), I can imagine that iPhone owners might simply start uploading their videos directly to Facebook.

As you may remember, Facebook’s support for video uploading has been a shoddy affair for a long time, and even Facebook itself didn’t put much emphasis on it, making it a tiny link that most users never even noticed. But then, late last year, Facebook added support for HD videos, and (even more importantly) embedding videos on other sites. [Mashable]

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