iPhone Apps Roundup: AdMob Ads; Facebook Mobile; Meebo Client; IE4 All Over Again

AdMob: It has released a special ad unit designed for the iPhone. AdMob’s new iPhone ad unit for Starbucks includes a Starbucks ad that, when clicked, slides down allowing the user to enter a Zip Code. Doing that opens the iPhone’s Google Maps application which directs the owner to the nearest Starbucks.

Facebook: A pretty cool mobile version of Facebook, especially adapted for iPhone…uses cues from iPhones UI.

Meebo: The Web-based chat client has adapted it for iPhone and works well…among the best of iPhone IM apps.

— Then, a contrarian view on all these iPhone-adapted online apps: “The IPhone Is Internet Explorer 4 All Over Again“: “In suggesting that developers use the web to build iPhone applications, what Apple has done (perhaps inadvertently, perhaps not) is force the creation of a subset of the mobile web that only works with the iPhone

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