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- Facebook career postings: data center, engineering, mobile, more
- Facebook hires: investor relations, engineering, business development, more
- New Facebook guidelines require news and video apps to wait at least 10 seconds before publishing user activity
- Facebook allows post scheduling directly from pages without third-party tools
- Facebook introduces 5 tiers of page admin access
| Facebook career postings: data center, engineering, mobile, more Posted: 31 May 2012 05:15 PM PDT
Posts added this week on Facebook's Careers Page:
Jobs posted by Facebook on LinkedIn:
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| Facebook hires: investor relations, engineering, business development, more Posted: 31 May 2012 04:50 PM PDT
Facebook appears to have hired a director of investor relations in addition to some data center staff and engineers, according to its Careers page. Various other staff in business development, marketing and user operations were hired, according to the company's LinkedIn feed. New hires per LinkedIn and other sources:
Prior listings now removed from the Facebook Careers Page:
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| Posted: 31 May 2012 03:37 PM PDT
Facebook seems to be starting to enforce some best practices for social readers and video apps, which have grown extremely quickly but have poor public perception. Many users complain that these applications publish stories that they didn't mean to share. Although 10 seconds is the minimum amount of time that a user must be on a piece of content before their activity is shared, some developers might want to use an even longer span to ensure that published actions reflect a user’s actual behavior. If a video is 5 minutes long and a user leaves after 20 seconds, for example, the user might resent the app telling their friends that they watched the video. In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook told developers they should allow users to easily turn sharing on or off, and that the setting should persist. However, it's unclear if a particular setting should be applied every time a user visits an app or be reset when a user leaves and returns. Spotify, for instance, offers a "private session" mode, but if users close the application and reopen it, their listening activity will reset to sharing. Users can always change their app settings and delete stories from their activity log, but Facebook is encouraging developers to give users more control from within an app. Open Graph documentation says social reading apps should provide users with an option to remove any "read" stories directly from an article page. For video applications, Facebook says developers must provide the option to remove the activity from the same page the content appears. Video apps must also give the user clear, ongoing, and in-context messaging that their watch actions will be published on Facebook. Also in Wednesday's developer update, the social network announced that applications must use the built-in "read" and "watch" actions moving forward. Previously these actions were in beta for certain Open Graph partners. Now no custom "read" or "watch" actions will be accepted, and developers have 90 days to convert their custom actions to the built-in verbs. This will allow all social reader and video activity to be aggregated properly on users' Timelines and in News Feed. For example, Facebook displays "trending articles" and "trending videos" based on these built-in actions. |
| Facebook allows post scheduling directly from pages without third-party tools Posted: 31 May 2012 10:21 AM PDT Facebook page owners can now create posts and schedule them to appear a specific times by using a new feature in the page’s publisher. Previously, page owners had to use third-party tools like those from HootSuite or Buddy Media to schedule posts for future points in time. Now, users can click the clock icon in the bottom left corner of the publisher and select a date up to six months in advance. While this additional functionality could help page owners not already using third-party tools, social media platform companies should not feel too threatened by the feature. Most platforms offer a unified dashboard for Facebook, Twitter and other networks, so that user can create a post from one location and then schedule it to appear in several channels. This is something Facebook is not likely to replicate. The social network’s new feature requires that posts be scheduled at least 10 minutes from when they are created. The publisher also offers times in 10-minute increments so it seems posts cannot be scheduled for 12:15, for example. However, Facebook’s Help Center says posts can be scheduled in 15-minute intervals. We have asked the company for clarification.
After scheduling a post, page owners will see a confirmation that will let them know that they can view, reschedule or cancel their post from the page’s activity log.
Earlier today, Facebook released different levels of admin access for page owners. These features are likely to most help individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses that don’t have a budget for third-party platforms. Most larger companies have additional needs that won’t be met using Facebook’s native tools. As we’ve seen in the past when the social network improves its page moderation features, third-party platforms are able to incorporate the features into their own tools using Facebook’s APIs. |
| Facebook introduces 5 tiers of page admin access Posted: 31 May 2012 08:45 AM PDT Facebook now offers pages fives different levels of page admin privileges so that businesses can assign roles to different people without giving up full control of their pages. Previously, all admins had equal access to create posts, view insights, manage applications, respond to fans and edit page settings. The new roles are “manager,” “content creator,” “moderator,” “advertiser” and “insights analyst.” Facebook offers the following chart to break down what each type of admin is authorized to do.
Facebook first announced that it would offer five levels of admin access at the Facebook Marketing Conference in February, but at the time it did not explain what the different roles would be. For now, page owners cannot change the privileges associated with the roles above. For example, an advertiser cannot create posts as the page unless they are changed to a content creator — though doing so also gives them the ability to respond to fans through comments or private messages. Still, these roles seem to cover the needs of most pages. The current default for all admins is manager status. Levels can be changed from the “admin roles” panel within the “edit page” dashboard.
Thanks Blink VP of Media and Planning Eti Suruzon for the tip |
Facebook added data center, engineering and other account management staff to its 
Facebook has updated its Open Graph publishing guidelines to require social news and video apps to wait at least 10 seconds before posting "read" or "watch" actions to a user's Timeline. This will prevent Open Graph applications from being able to publish stories on behalf of users immediately after they click a link.
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