Top: Landscape-mode screenshot from Facebook’s new, unified iOS update. Bottom : Landscape-mode screenshot from MyPad’s iPhone app. I swear to God Facebook, we should start holding a contest for people who can spot this  this kind of design “flattery” — like have them win Disrupt Beijing tickets or something.

Facebook is bringing its platform to mobile. The social network is allowing app developers to connect users more easily to the mobile or web version of their apps when using the site on a mobile device. To start, Facebook is launching support for the Facebook mobile website and Facebook for iPad, iPod touch and iPhone.

Facebook's iPad app could be a lot closer to launch than we thought. A full-sized, fully-functional version of the iPad app is hidden inside the current iPhone app. That means that, if you are running the iPhone app you already have the iPad executable on your phone.

Today, at long last, Facebook has introduced its application for Apple’s iPad. The app will give users “the full Facebook experience, right at your fingertips,” writes former Microsoft employee and current Facebook engineer Leon Dubinsky on the Facebook blog . “Facebook on the iPad feels fun,” he summarized.

As budgets are squeezed and funders and donors demand greater levels of transparency about how their money is being spent, marketing has become an increasingly controversial topic for charities. A recent survey on this network found that seven out of 10 voluntary sector professionals thought that marketing was "incredibly expensive" and too "widespread" for stakeholders to take notice of.

The interactive nature of Channel 4's Big Brother - TV screens, audiences connected in real time - was a spur to Child's i Foundation founder Lucy Buck. As one of the series' producers for seven years, Buck decided to quit her job to set up an interactive charity for abandoned Ugandan children.