Nokia Messaging for Social Networks is the latest release of Nokia Messaging which is available for the Nokia N97, N97 mini and the 5800, which in short means, all Symbian S60 Version 5 devices within the Nokia stable.

I have been a fan of the Nokia Messaging application and even went as far as rating it as a Nokia N97 application worth using!

What’s even cooler about this release, is that I have a short feature in the launch video. Watch it and look out for my Twitter account as the first tweet!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-VvM6Xwscw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

I feature from 41 seconds to about 54 seconds. If you don’t follow me on Twitter already, you probably missing out. I go as @DChetty, so check it out!

The latest application now supports full Twitter and Facebook integration and allows simple, yet useful features like the ability to export Facebook events to the Nokia’s native calendar. The latest app supports full home-screen access and pulls data directly from your Facebook and Twitter accounts.

It’s very nifty and I recommend it as a potential Beta Labs winner!

I have been amazed at the success of Facebook’s ability to create a sticky social network that seems unrelenting in its efforts.

This is a short list of some of Facebooks stats:

• It has than 350 million users
• 50% of all of its users logging in at least once daily
• 45 million status updates daily
• 2 billion photos uploaded monthly
• 10 million fans of pages daily
• 8 billion minutes spent on Facebook daily
• 70% of users engage with applications built on the platform
• more than 1 million developers use the Facebook platform
• more than 350 000 applications run on the Facebook platform currently
• 14 million videos uploaded monthly
• 3 million events managed each month
• 65 million users log in via the mobile phone and are twice as active as desktop users

These figures are VERY impressive and would undoubtedly get most online marketers salivating at the prospect of using Facebook as a marketing channel.

Interesting articles worth browsing:

The Facebook Marketing Bible (An old article, but valid content)

Facebook Marketing: Articles and Resources (Also an old article, but great resource list)

Inside Facebook’s Best and Worst Of Marketing 2009 (Paid for ebook)