Facebook is going on a launching spree. Word has it that the world’s biggest social network has revealed the launching of a stripped-down, text-only version of its mobile site called Facebook Zero.
According to Robin Wauters on techcrunch, Facebook’s Vice President of Mobile and International Expansion at Chamath Palihapitiya, outlined the mobile version of Facebook at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.
Wauters was able to grab an image of the presentation Mr. Palihapitiya.
According to the BBC, Facebook said the new site “omits data intensive applications like photos,” and Facebook spokesperson commented on the app saying, “We are discussing it… as an option to make Facebook on the mobile web available to everyone, anywhiere and allow operators to encourage more mobile internet usage.”
Facebook has recently said that they have more than 100 million mobile users and this news shows that they are really taking it seriously.
It may be noted that Facebook have also launched a strip-down, basic version of Facebook called Facebook Lite for people with slow bandwith, especially in the developing countries.
Visiting the zero.facebook.com using mobile shows a message saying “Sorry, your carrier does not support zero.facebook.com.” The app may have already been launched, but operators have yet to sign up.
This version can be a boon for many where data services aren’t working well or traffic to regular Facebook is clogged.
Let’s wait and see how this new app turns out to be. Facebook for sure is working hard to make its products and service suit it’s users’ needs.
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