Facebook hired former Apple UI design manager Chris Weeldreyer to be product design manager, according to LinkedIn and Weeldryer’s Facebook Timeline. Weeldreyer had worked for Apple for eight years.
He appears to have been recruited by Facebook since we have no record of the company ever having an public job listing for the position.
Other new hires this week, according to LinkedIn, include:
- Quinn Duffy, Preferred Marketing Developer Program – former senior account manager at Wimdu GmbH
- John Reese, Production Engineer – former platform systems engineer at Bioware
- Sunita Whaval, Sales Representative
Additionally, Facebook removed the following positions from its Careers page:
- Data Engineer, Reporting
- Technology Partner, Hyperion
- Global Immigration and Tax Manager
- Design Recruiter – Contract
- Engineering Leadership Sourcer
- Recruiting Manager (Sao Paulo)
- University Recruiting Coordinator – Contract
- University Strategic Sourcing Specialist (Dublin)
- Data Center Energy Manager
- Marketing Manager – Contract (Hyderabad)
- Marketing Program Administrator 120505
- Data Scientist (Dublin)
- Analyst, User Operations, Intellectual Property, French (Dublin)
- Head of Mobile Operations
- Manager, User Operations (Austin)
- Account Manager, Tech/SocialCom (Dallas)
- Business Development Manager
- Business Development Manager, Mobile
- Media Solutions (Menlo Park)
- Manager, API Marketing Dublin)
- Manager, Italian Mid Market Sales (Dublin)
- Client Partner (Melbourne)
- Client Partner, Politics
- Custom Market Insights Lead (London)
- Data Scientist (Dublin)
Source: Inside Facebook
Facebook added 23 new positions to its careers page this week, including a job for lead commercial counsel, among several others for recruiters, engineers and analysts.
Posts added this week on Facebook’s Careers Page:
- Lead Commercial Counsel
- Data Warehouse Engineer
- Data Engineer, Visualization & Reporting
- Software Engineer, Measurement Systems
- Quantitative Modeling and Forecasting Analyst, Business Operations
- Infrastructure Security Engineer
- Oracle Application Developer (supply chain and logistics)
- Design Recruiting Lead/Manager
- Recruiting Coordinator – Contract (New York)
- Recruiting Coordinator – Contract (London)
- Technical Recruiter – Menlo Park
- Technical Recruiter – Menlo Park (Contract)
- Technical Recruiter – Seattle (Contract)
- Technical Sourcer – Menlo Park
- Technical Sourcer – Menlo Park (Contract)
- Technical Sourcer -New York (Contract)
- Data Warehouse Engineer
- Infrastructure Security Engineer
- Sourcing Manager, Network Hardware
- Media Solutions (Toronto)
- Quantitative Modeling and Forecasting Analyst, Business Operations
- Software Engineer, Measurement Systems
- Associate, Custom Market Insights (Menlo Park)
Jobs posted by Facebook on LinkedIn:
- Quantitative Modeling and Forecasting Analyst, Business Operations in Menlo Park, CA
- Business Operations Associate, Finance in Menlo Park, CA
- IT Manager in Dublin
- Principal, Monetization (Menlo Park) in Menlo Park, CA
- Lead, Custom Market Insights (New York) in Midtown Manhattan
- Associate, Custom Market Insights (New York) in Midtown Manhattan
- Marketing Mix Science Specialist (Menlo Park) in Menlo Park, CA
- Data Engineer, Enterprise BI in San Francisco Bay Area
- Technology Partner, Supply Chain/Logistics in San Francisco Bay Area
- IT & Security in San Francisco Bay Area
Source: Inside Facebook
Facebook has redesigned its so-called “hover cards” which appear when users mouse over the names of users and pages that have upgraded to Timeline.
These hover cards now display a user’s or page’s cover photo, in addition to profile pictures. Pages associated with places have a slightly different format. In place of the profile image, there is a map thumbnail that directs users to a full Bing map when clicked.
The new eye-catching design could encourage users to click Like on pages they see in News Feed or elsewhere on the site. Hover cards allow users to learn more about and interact with items in their feeds without opening a new tab or navigating away from the page. Page owners should now consider how their cover photo appears at a smaller size. It’s also worth noting that a page’s name and info appears as a layer on top of the cover photo, which might be difficult to read on some cover photo designs.
For pages associated with places, the inclusion of Bing maps could be helpful local places of business. However, there is now a noticeable lack of logo for users to associate with a brand or trademark, which could be problematic. This can possibly be remedied by including a logo inside of the cover photo to help identify the card and page.
Used strategically, hover cards could lead to more new page Likes with a single click. The number of Likes gained “on hover” are measured in page insights, as seen in the graph below.
The previous hover card design, which still appears for users who have not converted their profiles to Timeline, can be seen below. Facebook first rolled out hover cards in 2010, inspired by Twitter. Interestingly, Twitter no longer uses this feature.
Source: Inside Facebook
“Facebook for Every Phone,” the official page for Facebook’s feature phone application has become the first page on the social network to surpass 100 million Likes, according to our PageData tracking service.
What’s more, the page only seems to have been created five months ago, and it already has more than 33 million more Likes than the No. 2 page on the social network. That would be “Facebook,” the official community page for the site. After passing 100 million Likes on Sunday, the Facebook for Every Phone page is already up to more than 101.7 million total Likes.
Facebook for Every Phone is a native mobile app compatible with more than 3,600 different Java-enabled feature phones. The growth of the app’s community page is an indication of how many of the social network’s mobile users are on feature phones. Facebook for Every Phone users are given the option to Like the page when they first log in to the app, a company spokesperson told us in April.
Based on an analysis using the Facebook ad tool, we estimate there are about 95 million active feature phone users on the social network. Facebook does not indicate whether these are monthly active users or people who have downloaded or used the app within a longer timespan.
At the Social-Loco conference in San Francisco on Monday, Facebook Head of Mobile Partnerships Emily White said that 90 percent of users in Africa use a mobile phone. Many of these are are likely to be using the Facebook for Every Phone App. India is another country with a large population of feature phone users. White said that 30 percent of users in India are now registering for the site through mobile phones, suggesting they are mobile-only users.
Mobile-only users are typically feature phone users who do not have computer access. Smartphone users tend to visit Facebook through their phones and computers. In a regulatory filing, Facebook estimated that about 83 million mobile monthly active users accessed the social network solely through its mobile apps or mobile website in March.
Facebook recently updated its feature phone app to allow users to interact with pages and check into locations. The company also added photo filter capabilities so users can make their camera phone photos black and white or sepia.
Readers can see a full list of the most popular Facebook pages on our PageData site here.
Source: Inside Facebook
We have covered the lawsuit filed — and tenaciously fought — by Paul Ceglia against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for quite some time now. The embattled entrepreneur/businessman/whatever claims he owns 50 percent of Facebook, according to a contract …
Source: MARK ZUCKERBERG OR FACEBOOK – Bing News
Facebook and Yahoo are looking to settle two patent-infringement suits between the companies, according to a court filing from Yahoo.
Yahoo’s lawyers confirmed that the company is in negotiations with the social network and they requested the court grant them a two-week extension to file replies to the lawsuit and a two-week delay in a motion. Yahoo says it believes an extension will facilitate settlement.
Yahoo filed a lawsuit in mid-March, claiming Facebook infringed on 10 patents Yahoo holds related to advertising, privacy, customization, messaging and social networking. The suit called for Facebook to be permanently prevented from further infringing on Yahoo’s patents and to pay damages and legal fees. Facebook responded with counterclaims that Yahoo infringes upon 10 of the social network’s own patents.
Since then, Facebook expanded its patent portfolio by buying about 750 patents from IBM and another 650 from Microsoft. It also has deals to license hundreds more patents that weren’t for sale. Scott Thompson, Yahoo’s CEO at the time the original lawsuit was filed, has since resigned after failing to correct inaccuracies in his academic history.
AllThingsD sources previously suggested that key terms of the agreement include a cross-licensing agreement and an even deeper integration of Facebook into Yahoo and vice versa.
Source: Inside Facebook
