{"id":40269,"date":"2009-11-11T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=79359"},"modified":"2009-11-11T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T00:00:13","slug":"my-video-interview-with-joe-hewitt-facebook%e2%80%99s-iphone-app-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40269","title":{"rendered":"My Video Interview With Joe Hewitt, Facebook\u2019s iPhone App Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Much of Facebook’s success on the iPhone has come courtesy of Joe Hewitt, an ace programmer who joined the world’s largest social networking site when it acquired Parakey<\/a>, a company he co-founded with Firefox kid Blake Ross. Hewitt has now decided to shift his focus away<\/a> from the iPhone. In a tweet sent out earlier today he said<\/a>, “Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a new project.”<\/p>\n

Joe was named to GigaOM’s Top 15 Mobile Influencers list earlier this year<\/a> for his contributions to the iPhone app ecosystem — in particular, for single-handedly turning Facebook into a major force on the iconic Apple device<\/a>. I recently gave him a hard time over the delays in launching Facebook 3.0<\/a>, which prompted Joe to stop by our office and take part in an impromptu video chat. Here are the excerpts from that conversation. <\/p>\n

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Much of Facebook’s success on the iPhone has come courtesy of Joe Hewitt, an ace programmer who joined the world’s largest social networking site when it acquired Parakey, a company he co-founded with Firefox kid Blake Ross. Hewitt has now decided to shift his focus away from the iPhone. In a tweet sent out earlier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}