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- Inside Network Happy Hour Tonight in Berlin
- Facebook Makes It Easier for Developers to Share Application Admin Access
- Bing Now Displays Facebook Likes In-Line With Search Results
- Facebook Careers Postings: Journalism, Data Centers, Dublin, Austin, and More
- Facebook Hires and Departures: Latin America, Litigation, Recruiting, India and More
| Inside Network Happy Hour Tonight in Berlin Posted: 25 Feb 2011 05:48 AM PST
Inside Network recently launched a series of casual evening happy hours to bring together the community of developers, investors, and entrepreneurs that we serve globally. Join Kim-Mai Cutler, lead writer for Inside Mobile Apps, the Wooga team, and the SponsorPay team in an evening of casual discussion, networking and drinks in the heart of Berlin. All Inside Network happy hours are free, thanks to a co-sponsorship from SponsorPay, the European virtual currency monetization company, and Wooga, Europe’s largest social game developer. Happy hour starts at 6 p.m. at Wooga’s offices in Backfabrik. We look forward to seeing you there! Berlin About the sponsors: SponsorPay is focused on virtual currency monetization for online games, social apps, virtual worlds and social networks in the European market. The company's ad-funded payment solution gives online users access to virtual currency or premium features through participation in targeted advertising offers. Wooga is the largest developer of social games based in Europe. More than 15 million people play the four games Wooga has launched so far including Brain Buddies, Bubble Island, Monster World and Happy Hospital. Wooga employs a team of over 60 people from 20 nations and is located in the heart of Berlin. |
| Facebook Makes It Easier for Developers to Share Application Admin Access Posted: 24 Feb 2011 05:20 PM PST Facebook now displays invites to become an admin, developer, tester, or Insights user for a specific application in the Developer app and as a Facebook notification. Previously these developer requests were buried at the the bottom of the Requests page, below a user’s friend and other requests, frequently causing members of app development teams to miss the requests.
The change will reduce the delay between when a developer request is sent and when a user notices it and accepts. This will be especially useful for developers trying to set up new application testers who might be less familiar with the requests. Facebook added a new access control model for applications in January, allowing developers to assign different team members with different privileges. This makes sure the ability to modify or delete an app is only given to those who need it. Developer requests in the Developer app appear at the top of the app above News.
The developer request notifications appear along with notifications about wall posts and photo tags in Facebook’s top navigation bar’s notifications channel — the drop-down beneath the globe icon. Developer requests generate a red counter on the globe icon, as with other notifications. Clicking the notification leads to the My Apps page where the request can be confirmed or ignored. Note that only users who have already verified their developer account with a phone number or credit card can be sent developer requests. If a developer tries to send a request to someone who is unverified, they’ll receive an error message and the request won’t be sent.
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| Bing Now Displays Facebook Likes In-Line With Search Results Posted: 24 Feb 2011 12:30 PM PST The Microsoft Bing search engine will soon integrate Facebook Likes more prominently into its search results. Bing added Facebook Instant Personalization and began showing Liked results at the bottom of result pages in October. Now a Facepile of friends who Liked a result appears directly below the result. Users will be able to factor social recommendations into their normal search behavior of choosing between results. The integration doesn’t appear to be live quite yet, though.
Google’s ongoing tension with Facebook has led it to cease displaying Facebook Page updates after starting to in February 2010, and integrate social data from Twitter into search results rather than Likes. However, users must be logged into their Google account and have explicitly connected their Twitter account, while Facebook users don’t have to explicitly connect to Bing to get social results. Combined with Twitter’s smaller total user base, this means many more people will see social search results on Bing than Google.
While Google still dominates search, and probably will despite Bing’s new integrations, its lack of Facebook content is becoming increasingly apparent. If Google doesn’t come to an agreement with Facebook, it may lose users who want to navigate search results with the help of the Likes of their friends, not their tweets. After all, a friend could have posted a link to Twitter for any number of reasons.
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| Facebook Careers Postings: Journalism, Data Centers, Dublin, Austin, and More Posted: 24 Feb 2011 11:49 AM PST
Other positions added to the Careers Page this week include the Journalist Program Manager, a job which the description says requires someone who has “proven experience using Facebook in progressive ways as a journalist” and will be based in New York with the company’s Marketing Team. The job basically means that the candidate will be working with journalists to better utilize Facebook, specifically: identifying best practices for journalists, creating content, counseling journalists and advocate for them. The candidate needs a bachelor’s degree, at least 5 years’ experience in journalism, an understanding of social media and and a willingness to travel. Facebook added two positions in its Virginia data center, for Data Center Technician and Manager of Data Center Operations; a Lead Data Center Technician position will be based in the Bay Area in California. See our previous jobs post from this week for information on Facebook’s latest hires and departures. Posts added this week on Facebook's Careers Page:
Jobs posted by Facebook on LinkedIn:
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| Facebook Hires and Departures: Latin America, Litigation, Recruiting, India and More Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:34 AM PST
The lists below show new hires from LinkedIn, as well as positions that are no longer listed on Facebook’s Careers Page (and so presumably removed). The latter includes: Litigation Counsel, Communication Design Lead and Platform Marketing Events Producer. New hires per LinkedIn and Other Sources:
Recent departures, per LinkedIn:
Prior listings now removed from the Facebook Careers Page:
Who else is hiring? The Inside Network Job Board presents a survey of current openings at leading companies in the industry. |
Just a friendly reminder: Inside Network is coming to Berlin tonight for a happy hour at Backfabrik, the headquarters of the European game developer Wooga.
Developer can look forward to no longer having to explain to new team members where their developer requests are, and being able to instead concentrate on designing and testing their apps.
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