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[Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Visit Inside Facebook Gold to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.]Continue
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. When you place job listings on the Inside Network Job Board, they’ll be distributed to readers of Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games. That way, you can be sure that your open positions are being seen by the leading developers, product managers, marketers, designers, and executives in the Facebook Platform and social gaming industry today.Continue
A small team of high-profile developers are unveiling its new service for hosting customizable but automatically maintained WordPress publishing software installs tonight. WP Engine seeks to serve what they believe is a large market: businesses that need more customizability than WordPress.com hosted accounts offer at low-end prices but more ease of use and scalability support than the millions of WordPress.org users get running open source installs on their own or rented servers.Continue
In theory, Facebook's new question and answer feature has a million possibilities for users, app developers, advertisers and search engine marketers. But the feature's significance will largely depend on what the promised Application Programming Interface (API), the technical platform that lets outside developers build on Facebook data, will let developers do.
Will marketers flood Facebook with automatically-posted queries and self-promoting answers? Will advertisers target specific users based on their queries? And crucially, will developers be able to tap into the Questions database for use outside Facebook's walls?Continue
Those with access to Facebook’s Questions feature are seeing a new design of the home page publisher used to share status updates and other sorts of content. Users must now decide whether they want to publish a simple status update, a question, upload a photo, or post a link and website preview. While displaying the different things you can do with the publisher, the design change hides the status update prompt “What’s on your mind?” and the rest of the publisher behind an additional click, which could reduce sharing.Continue
[Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Visit Inside Facebook Gold to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.]
Today we present our monthly look at Facebook’s language leaderboard and growth.Continue
Out of the last five startups that Facebook has bought, four of them have had something to do with sharing information in a social news feed interface or sharing location data, if not both. All of the sale prices have been relatively low, too, with the acquisitions largely intended to bring in talented developers. So it makes sense that Facebook may be buying Hot Potato, a startup that lets you create and share a stream of information about events, and anything else.Continue
The experience of shopping and buying items has always been a social one, but online we largely browse and purchase items by ourselves while parked at of our computer monitors. The online shopping experience may soon get far more social as online retail behemoth Amazon has added connectivity to Facebook in order to provide product suggestions based on likes and favorites pulled from the social graph.Continue
Over the past year, Facebook and privacy are two topics that have become practically joined at the hip. The site has 
