Facebook is developing a new text-only application called “Facebook Zero”. The new product was discussed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. With Facebook Zero, Facebook will be available on the mobile web to everyone, anywhere. Zero is a light-weight version of m.facebook.com that omits data intensive applications like Photos. Read full story »

Facebook to soon open an office in India to support users, advertisers and developers in India and around the world. By having multiple support centers in a variety of time zones, we can provide better round-the-clock, multi-lingual support. More than 8 million of Facebook’s total 400 million users are in India. Read full story »

WSJ reports that, barackobama.com has published an online job description for the post of Social Networks Manager, who will be responsible for maintaining the President’s accounts on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The person currently holding the job of ‘Barack Obama’s twitterer’ is stepping down soon. Obama now has more than three million followers on Twitter and nearly 7.5 million Facebook fans. Read full story »

Facebook announced that Facebook Chat is now available on Jabber (XMPP) clients – which means you can chat with your Facebook friends from any of your favorite desktop instant messaging client including iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Miranda and more. Jabber (XMPP) is an open messaging protocol supported by most instant messaging software and Facebook is now using the Jabber technology to make Facebook Chat available everywhere. Read full story »

In a poll conducted among American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), who handle divorces and legal separations in the USA, 81 percent of 1,600 members said that they have seen a rise in the last five years in the number of cases using evidence from the Internet. Facebook was the main source of divorce and custody evidence, according to 66 percent of AAML members, followed by MySpace at 15 percent, Twitter at 5 percent. Read full story »