• by Gavin O'Malley , April 20, 2010

As it turns out, Google isn’t the only hugely successful company capable of bad ideas. Indeed, Facebook is pulling the plug on Lite just seven months after releasing the service to the world. Hyped as a potential Twitter-killer, Facebook Lite was a simplified version of the site, which was supposedly “optimized for people with slow connections,� notes All Facebook. “But apparently not enough people were using it.� Regarding the service, Facebook said: “We’re no longer supporting it, but learned a lot from the test of a slimmed-down site.� The question remains as to why Facebook would act so fast to shut down the service. All Facebook, for its part, guesses “that maintaining both the main version of the site as well as the simplified versions simultaneously has proven difficult.� It also suggests that Blake Ross, who was the developer behind Facebook Lite, is now focused on other, potentially more successful products.