Around the Web: Facebook Opens the Web

Facebook is closing in on 500 million visitors a month and its goal of making the Web "instantly social." CEO Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled new features and announced it will kill the standalone Facebook Connect product it launched two years ago.

Boeing expects to deliver its 787 Dreamliner by year-end.

Visa is paying $2 billion for CyberSource, an e-payments service.

Salesforce is buying contact crowd-sourcer Jigsaw.

McDonald's McCafe is gaining traction with customers.

Longines opened its first online store.

Tesco is eyeing global growth.

Unilever's new user-generated video contest for 13 of its brands will include Ben & Jerry's, Dove deodorant, Lipton and Vaseline.

Merger creates new telecom power in emerging markets.

As expected, the FDA today called for salt cutbacks.

Europe is rebounding from days of vol-chaos.

Marketers are shifting more of their online budgets to content sites.

And in personal branding news: Courtney Love is no more.