Sending out automated birthday wishes on Facebook might be the most antisocial thing you can do, but will that keep you from using the HappyBirthday Chrome Extension.

Voice Brief is a cool iPhone app that reads out loud whatever appears on your Facebook feed by using voice synthesis technology. The 271 megabyte app also works with Twitter, Gmail, the weather, your calendar, stock prices or any RSS feed.

If you can’t get used to the fact that Facebook removed the Comment button, then you should give the F.B Purity browser plugin a try. The latest version (4.4.0) of the plugin reverts your Facebook to the previous commenting system with the button.

Last week we warned you about a fake application that’s supposed to tell you how much time you’ve spent on Facebook, when in fact it just displays a totally random number and posts spam to your wall. But for those interested in keeping track of the time you spend on Facebook, we found a browser plugin called Facebook Runner that does that, and more.

Microsoft has released a preview version of the Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook. The software, not to be confused with the similar Fishbowl client for Windows 7, offers a slick user interface to explore Facebook and currently comes with these features…

Major Nelson just confirmed that the long-awaited release of the Xbox 360 Fall Update, which integrates Facebook, Twitter, Last.FM and Zune Video. You can find the Facebook and Twitter applications under the new My Community channel on your dashboard.

You might have already noticed the green “Retweet” button we recently started placing at the beginning of our posts, which allows visitors to instantly “retweet” it while also keeping track of how many did. But since we’re a Facebook site in the first place, I wanted to add a similar button showing the number of Facebook shares.

iTunes 9 has just been released and the rumored Facebook integration turns out rather disappointing. All you can do right now is right-click a song in the iTunes Music Store (not even in your personal iTunes library) and choose the “Share on Facebook” option to publish the song’s name and album cover to your Facebook profile.

Some of you can’t seem to find the option that allows you to upload video directly to Facebook in the today released Facebook 3.0 app. It’s indeed not abundantly clear how to do that, but we can tell you how.

We learned from TechCrunch that the Facebook 3.0 app for the iPhone and iPod Touch was approved by Apple and has been added to iTunes about 15 minutes ago. At the time of writing, the entry in the iTunes Store still mentions version 2.5, but it should be 3.0 if you install it.

Facebook has yesterday submitted their updated Facebook 3.0 app for the iPhone to the iTunes Store for approval. Hopefully, Apple approves this app fast because the “What’s new” list looks most pleasing.

Mashable published a list of 10 iPhone apps and games you can log into using your Facebook account, thanks to Facebook Connect. “This list brings you 10 more fantastic apps that allow you to connect with Facebook from your iPhone to do things like share information, sync data, challenge friends to games, and access media.”

Verizon Communications (US) this week launched the Widget Bazaar, a virtual application store which gives its television service subscribers more ways to engage with TV content. One of the first widgets available integrates Facebook on the customer’s television set.

Did you know that over 8 million users become fans of Facebook Pages every day? Facebook has just added a free Widget for Facebook Page administrators, called the Fan Box. The Fan Box can show the number of fans a page has (up to 100), recent posts from the Page and a 1-click Become a fan button.