Facebook is playing Superman for mobile carriers who’re already choking on bandwidth. Facebook today announced the launch of Facebook Zero, a text-only mobile site, for a select set of mobile carriers. Facebook Zero is a stripped down version of Facebook’s existing mobile site.
You can access Facebook Zero at zero.facebook.com from your mobile device if it has been enabled for your operator. Chances are pretty slim although. Facebook will offer Zero to mobile carriers at no extra charge. Operators have the choice to provide it for free to their subscribe and if a user wishes to access data intensive applications like photos etc. on the mobile then an operator might choose to charge their users.
For Facebook it’s yet another method to add to the increasing the usage amongst mobile users, another step towards fetching Twitter-lovers.
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Facebook now lets you chat with your Facebook buddies from your favorite desktop chat application. Now you won’t need to stay logged into Facebook to chat with your friends. You can simply chat with your Facebook friends from your choice of IM client. Facebook uses Jabber (XMPP) to make Facebook Chat available outside of Facebook. The same protocol is supported by major IM clients such as Pidgin, ichat, Adium etc. Facebook has also enabled developers to make use of Facebook Chat using Facebook Connect. 
