The site, which many (including us) called yet another Twitter imitation, had only been live since last September but now redirects to the main Facebook homepage.

Thanks to everyone who tried out Facebook Lite. We're no longer supporting it, but learned a lot from the test of a slimmed-down site. If you used Lite, you'll now be taken to the main Facebook.com site.

The pared-down version of the social network was meant to serve dial-up users and those in third-world countries with slower connections. Facebook did announce another stripped down version of itself called Facebook Zero last February at the Mobile World Congress, but going to this site from a browser simply gets the message "Sorry, your carrier does not support zero.facebook.com."

We've asked Facebook if any other alternative will be available for slow-connection and dial-up users, but did not receive a response by press time.

Of course it only includes Facebook data, not data from third party widgets. To be really cheeky, Netvibes should find a way to include all your third party Facebook widgets ;-) However Netvibes has actually done very well, because the only thing missing seems to be Facebook's news feed - because Facebook does not currently allow outsider providers to access the News Feed. Given that Facebook is not very open (at least outwards), this is impressive. Also it should be mentioned that you still need to click through to facebook to go through your friend requests, group invites, etc.

Facebook is expected to go public under the symbol "FB," but it's unclear whether they will list on the NYSE or the NASDAQ. With $3.8 billion in ad revenues in 2011, Facebook is on a roll. But what does that mean to the typical Facebook user?

What Does the Facebook IPO Mean To You?

We asked and culled your responses from Facebook, Google+ and Twitter and presented them back to you with Storify. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.

SmartTwitter helps strip out all of the Twitter mumbo-jumbo so all the rest of your non-tweeting Facebook friends can finally understand what you're saying.

From the app's description:

Smart Twitter was written out of the frustration with the existing Twitter-to-Facebook apps. They either copied everything, or required an arbitrary hashtag to post updates. It should be possible for a computer to figure out which Tweets should be copied to Facebook and which ones should remain on Twitter.

While copying your tweets to your Facebook may be considered lazy social media practice, there are many of us out there who do it nonetheless. If you're one of the offenders, we strongly encourage you to check out SmartTwitter.

We asked and culled your responses from Facebook, Google+ and Twitter and we used Storify to present it all back to you. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.

Brightkite users can choose to have their Facebook status updated and/or publish their location, notes, and photos directly into their Facebook News Feed.

To turn this new feature on, do the following:

1. On Brightkite visit your Account Settings, click on the Sharing tab.
2. Authorize Facebook by clicking the link next to all 3 steps.
3. Choose your Facebook cross-posting options and click save.

Brightkite promises this is only the beginning and that's there's more in store in terms of Brightkite/Facebook integration. We imagine that means they'll soon allow us to bring our Facebook friend list into Brightkite and vice versa.

The power of this integration is precisely why Facebook Connect is rapidly being adopted by web sites across the internet. That, and the fact that regular internet users immediately understand what "Connect with Facebook" means. Unfortunately, "Login with your OpenID" still has them scratching their heads.

This comes right after yesterday's announcement that sponsored stories will start popping up in the Facebook news feed. Sponsored stories are already appearing in the news ticker.

Facebook is interested in tailoring its ads to you rather than just delivering whatever it wants. You can click on the X if you don't want to see the ad that's being offered, and Facebook will deliver a new one. This is yet another thing to do on Facebook which operates as another way to keep you on the site longer.

Facebook already keeps track of ads that you've viewed and what sponsored stories have shown up in your feed. That information is available on the Facebook adboard .

Ads may help keep Facebook free, but will you accept them? Or, like a rebellious teenager, will you finally leave Facebook for Google+?

We'd like to grow our Facebook fan base, as it's a good way for us to interact with you outside of our own website. So to encourage this, we will be mailing our Facebook fans this once-only offer within the next 24 hours. Join our Facebook page now to be certain of receiving this offer.

How often do you check Facebook?

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New support has been added for 22 new languages on Android, and 12 new languages on iOS. Facebook Messenger is already available on iPhone (including iOS5) and Android, and now it's available on BlackBerry. Beluga, the system behind Facebook Messenger, was supposed to be the BlackBerry Messenger for non-BlackBerries. In an ironic twist of fate, that system has made its way to BlackBerry through Facebook.

Now that this app has come to BlackBerry, will BlackBerry users start leaving BlackBerry Messenger for Facebook Messenger?

As with Facebook Messenger for iPhone and Android, the BlackBerry version brings in all of your Facebook conversations, making it easy to access everything from one place. The app stands alone. BlackBerry Messenger offers messaging with other BlackBerry Messenger-confirmed users only.

The announcement about Facebook Messenger came from Facebook engineer Lucy Zhang, ex-Googler and co-founder of the group messaging startup Beluga, which was acquired by Facebook in March, right before SXSW. As it expands, Facebook Messenger continues to build off Beluga's design - and this isn't the first time Beluga has been compared to BlackBerry Messenger.

Calling all BlackBerry users! Do you have BlackBerry Messenger? If so, would you be willing to switch to Facebook Messenger?

The first feature is a one-time password. To use this feature, you have to have a mobile phone number associated with your account. Then, if you want to generate a temporary password, text "otp" to 32665. And in return, Facebook will text you a password that can only be used once and that will expire in 20 minutes.

Facebook say these features will be rolled out gradually, but should be available to everyone in the next few weeks.

It was a year ago today - April 22, 2010 - that Facebook unveiled the Like button, the catalyst it uses to drive its now ubiquitous open social graph. The Like button has been integrated on more than 2.5 million websites with 250 million people engaging Facebook externally.

In a status update on (what else?) Facebook's own Facebook page, the company said that that 10,000 websites institute the Like button every day. As of 9:30 a.m. Pacific, the status update had received 66,905 likes and 8,739 comments, with a lot of it in the form of general gibberish or completely off-topic to the Like button's year anniversary.

• Within the first three weeks of launching the Like button last April, more than 50,000 websites had added it. Now, since launching...
• 10,000 websites integrate with Facebook each day.
• More than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
• More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook (including over 80 of comScore's U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of comScore's Global Top 100 websites)
• Facebook is integrated with the largest US comScore Media properties including: the Top 10 Sports properties; 9 of the Top 10 News/Information properties; 9 of the Top 10 Entertainment properties
• 18 of the top 25 Comscore U.S. retail sites use Facebook
• Over half of the 25 fastest growing Comscore U.S. retail sites use Facebook
• Media sites were among the first to adopt the Like button, and as a result see an increase in Facebook activity. The average media organization has seen a greater than 300% increase in referral traffic from Facebook since the beginning of 2010.

Microsoft's investment with Facebook has always been strong - they were one of the early investors in the social platform, so Bing has been able to freely integrate with Facebook as they please.

The new Bing Translation feature on Facebook pages is yet another step toward Facebook's bigger goal: to make the Web fully focused on social search.

Do you use Bing social search? How do you think Facebook's new translation service will affect Facebook's global reach?

With Facebook Lite, the company already offers a very basic version of its service for desktop users on slow connections. This version is mainly aimed at users in the developing world.

If you try to go to zero.facebook.comright now, this message will appear: Sorry, your carrier does not support zero.facebook.com. As Robin Wauters notes, chances are that Facebook plans to offer carriers the most basic version of Zero for free. Mobile operators will be able to charge for the premium version. It's not clear if Facebook plans to take a cut of these fees.