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Facebook Loses Earliest Remaining Employee, Kevin Colleran

in Social on June 23, 2011 at 5:06 pm PT

Kevin Colleran, Facebook’s longest-tenured employee and its first advertising salesperson, will leave the company early next month after six and a half years.
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f8: Great Apps, No Crap

in News on July 23, 2008 at 2:30 pm PT

Looks like Facebook has finally gotten around to addressing the issue of the intrusive third-party applications so prevalent in its ecosystem. “We haven’t done enough to reward Facebook’s good citizens,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during his f8 keynote address Wednesday.

Some Facebook Apps Are Actually More Equal Than Others

in News on July 22, 2008 at 12:28 pm PT

Tomorrow, when it rolls out its new platform, one of the more interesting pieces of news from Facebook will be its initiative to dub certain of its third-party app developers more special than others. The social-networking site has selected just two, in fact–Causes and iLike–to receive “preferred” status. While BoomTown is unclear as to the details, several sources said that this initiative has to do with developing in a way more in line with the goals of Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.