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Facebook’s Director Of Engineering For Ads Reportedly Heads To Quora

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:47:21 +0000

John Hegeman, Facebook’s Director of Engineering for Ads, is apparently leaving the company to join Quora. He posted to his private timeline Thursday that it is his last day at Facebook, according to TechCrunch.

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Facebook Begins Rolling Out New, Customizable Timeline

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:44:32 +0000

The redesign for Timeline has been tested in New Zealand and other parts of the world, but Facebook announced Wednesday that it will start officially rolling out the new look to select users immediately. Much like Facebook’s updated News Feed, the goal for Timeline is to reduce clutter and place more options in the hands of users. The new design has about content and open graph actions on the left side of the page, with posts on the right side.

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Bing Integrates More Facebook Results Into Social Sidebar

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:42:11 +0000

Just like Facebook is integrating Bing into its graph search, Microsoft’s search engine is getting more cozy with the social network. Bing announced Thursday that more results from users’ Facebook friends will be included next to the main search results if users have connected their Facebook accounts to Bing.

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Aaron Greenspan Claims Recently Discovered IMs With Mark Zuckerberg From 2004 Back His Claim To The Ideas Behind Facebook

David Cohen — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:07:59 +0000

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: A classmate of Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg from Harvard University is claiming that some of his ideas were stolen and incorporated into Facebook. Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss, or Divya Narenda? All of them are good guesses, but in this instance, we are talking about Aaron Greenspan.

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Co-Worker Of ‘The Boy Kings’ Author: No ‘Rampant Culture Of Sexism At Facebook In 2007’

David Cohen — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:30:16 +0000

Charlotte Willner, a Facebook employee since 2007 who worked under tell-all book The Boy Kings author Katherine Losse, said her former boss may have been exaggerating a bit when describing the sexist culture in the early days of the social network.

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More Wedding Bells Within Facebook Mafia

Julie D. Andrews — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:22:53 +0000

Now that hardscrabble work of building a company and seeing it through its initial public offering is complete, another Facebook geek is unrolling his sleeves, taking a big exhale, and enjoying the other fruits life has to offer, such as settling down into wedded bliss with his life-long companion, or some rendition of that.

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Did Facebook IPO Ruin Fundraising For Startups?

Julie D. Andrews — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:00:00 +0000

A missive posted by Paul Graham, founder of investment firm Y Combinator, warned that there may be funding hurdles for startups in the future as a result of Facebook’s less-than-dynamic initial public offering performance.

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IPO Sinks Facebook In Customer Loyalty Study

David Cohen — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:26:22 +0000

The list of casualties of Facebook’s staggering initial public offering now includes Facebook’s position on the Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index, as it fell to fifth place in the social networking category, after holding the top spot in February.

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Graduating Engineers To Facebook: Nice Package!

David Cohen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:41:51 +0000

What recession? Assuming two anonymous responders to a Quora post are telling the truth, there’s certainly no shortage of money for engineers joining Facebook straight out of school.

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How Long Would It Take (Google) To Clone Facebook?

David Cohen — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:39:30 +0000

One of the charms of Quora is that you never know who will answer your queries. For example, the site’s founder, the former Facebook Chief Technology Officer, Adam D’Angelo. may happen to chime in when you ask, “How long would it take to build Facebook as of July 2011?”

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Hacker Makes Facebook Look Like MySpace, Gets Hired

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:48:28 +0000

While many companies will file charges against someone who exploits their system, Facebook decided to take things in another direction after Chris Putnam and two friends exploited a bug to make the site look like MySpace.
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REPORT: Facebook Branding Beats Twitter

Jackie Cohen — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:19:19 +0000

Facebook’s brand effectiveness outranks all other social media’s branding efforts, according Brand Keys’ Customer Loyalty Index.
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Facebook Almost Had A Hedgehog As A Mascot

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:56:56 +0000

While Facebook never ended up with a mascot to represent the company, Sean Parker, a co-founder of Facebook and Napster, wanted to have a hedgehog as the company mascot.
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The Secret To Why Facebook's Places Logo Has A 4 In It

Nick O'Neill — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:43:17 +0000

If you thought Facebook was copying Google and Foursquare with their new Places logo, think again. Aaron Sittig, the lead designer at Facebook, posted a coy response yesterday on Quora claiming that they “could only wish we’d been so clever.” Whether or not placing the four in the logo or using Google’s places pin (found here) was intentional, it’s pretty clear that the images “subconsciously” appeared at a minimum.
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The History Of The Facebook ID

Nick O'Neill — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:44:18 +0000

How does Facebook generate your ID when you join the site? While new users of the site aren’t aware of the use of numerical IDs, since the beginning Facebook’s profile system has been based on IDs to identify each user. While the site first began by auto-incrementing IDs, the model that the site has used for generating these IDs has changed over time. The history of the Facebook ID isn’t a regularly discussed topic among most users, however one Quora user posted the question and Justin Mitchell posted a great response.
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