Weekly Facebook Developer Blog Update – This week’s Platform Update to the Facebook Developers Blog announced that developers can now upload videos using the Graph API, and can batch upload binary data, including photos. It also reminded developers not to use fake accounts as admins of their apps, or their apps could be disabled. Developers should use real accounts to create apps, and Graph API-based designated test accounts for testing.

Facebook Unblocked in Vietnam? – Vietnam’s telecom company, FPT, signed a partnership with Facebook this week wherein the company will help promote and sell ads, as well as consulting developing Vietnamese apps for Facebook. The news was reported in PC World Vietnam, which hints that Facebook may be unblocked in that country soon.

Facebook Considers Censorship – Responding to questions about how Facebook sees working in countries that restrict free speech, aspokesperson told The Wall Street Journal that ”Maybe we will block content in some countries, but not others. We are occasionally held in uncomfortable positions because now we’re allowing too much, maybe, free speech in countries that haven’t experienced it before.” Facebook, like Google and other tech companies, do censor some information in specific interests (Nazi propaganda in Germany being an easy example, or hate speech), but have so far resisted widespread censorship of users over political or cultural issues.

Uganda Set to Block Facebook – Facebook is increasingly a target for blocking among governments, regardless of how it handles its service — the free-wheeling nature of the communication medium is what some fear. The government of Uganda is set to order ISPs there to block Twitter and Facebook in the face of widespread protests in the face of high food and fuel prices.

Facebook Increases Lobbying Spending in DC — Although not by much. Spending is up to $230,00 in the first quarter of this year from $41,000 a year before. Other companies and organizations spend many millions of dollars per quarter.

A Look Inside Facebook’s Oregon Data Center - Data Center Knowledge went on a tour of the servers at Facebook’s Prineville, Oregon datacenter and included photos and a video. Robert Scoble also went on the tour an includes more information and photos, such as that Facebook’s datacenter is the most efficient in the world. [Image via Facebook]

Winklevoss Twins Are Back in Court, Again – Although last week we reported that the Winklevoss twins had lost their latest challenge in an ongoing series of lawsuits against Facebook, they’re back. This time, the twins and another UConnect co-founder Divya Narendra, claim that Facebook hid instant messages that could have aided their cause during the course of their lawsuit (the newly-produced emails from a separate case against founder Mark Zuckerberg, from Paul Ceglia).

One User’s Question Goes Viral With 4M Votes – A random Facebook user, Heather Marie Hollingsworth, recently posted a question to her friends that ended up getting 4.11 million votes. AllThingsD reports that the virality designed into Facebook’s Questions product was likely responsible, as Hollingsworth simply asked her network whether they wanted to stay on her friends list as she began to clean it out.

Facebook Glitch Resets Email Notifications – Facebook reported it fixed a glitch that affected the amount of emails users receive from the social network, which users adjust in their account settings. All told users may receive email notifications for up to 73 different actions, such as being tagged in a photo.

Latest Android for Facebook Released – Facebook for Android v1.5.3 was released this week; the latest version allows users to tag friends in status updates, bug fixes and a friend finding feature.

FormSpring Names Former RockYou Executive as COO - Ro Choy, a former business executive at the social developer, is now the chief operating officer of the question and answer site that makes heavy use of Facebook features.

Compete: Financial Services Ok on Facebook – Compete studied the state of financial services firms on Facebook and found that State Farm, Capital One, Progressive beat out iTunes and Ford.

Pixable Raises $3.6M – Pixable, which created the Photofeed app that helps people discover their friends’ photos, raised $3.6 million this week in a second round funding.

Adaptly Raises $2.7M – Adaptly raised $2.7 million this week in seed and Series A funding from investors that included First Round Capital, Charles River Ventures and a group of angels. The money is set to help Adaptly continue to help advertisers spread their message across social networks, not simply Facebook.

Which Green Cars Capture the Most Chatter? – Social media analytics company Infegy ran an analysis of which “green” vehicles captured the most social chatter. Their analysis found that the Chevy Volt, then Audi A3 Diesel and Ford Fusion Hybrid were the top three midsize cars, whereas compacts were the Toyota Prius, Mini E Electric and the Nissan Leaf.

American Express Holds Small Business Contest – American Express Open and Facebook are partnering to hold a contest for small business owners to get a “small business makeover” at Facebook’s headquarters. The contest will award 5 business owners an all-expense paid trip to Palo Alto, California for a two-day, one-on-one business makeover, along with $20,000 to revamp their business’ social media strategy.

Facebook offers two parts of its platforms for developers, brands, and media publishers to build on. One is the Facebook canvas — the pages on Facebook.com where apps are located — and the other is Facebook Connect, the catch-all name for a variety of ways to integrate Facebook off the site.

We’ve written out a brief guide below for marketers and developers who are thinking about where to build, with advice for specific goals like gaining widespread visibility or directly monetizing users.

Note that while Facebook itself stopped using the “Connect” term in 2010, it’s still commonly used inside and outside the company to refer to non-canvas options, mainly the Graph API and the Open Graph protocol, but also Instant Personalization on third-party websites, “Facebook for Wesbsites”(which are Facebook social plugins), as well as other features, like its single sign-on service for Facebook-integrated mobile apps.

For reference, Facebook Canvas apps are built in HTML iframes on Facebook.com as their own properties or as tabs on Facebook Pages. Connect sites are typically standard websites that have been augmented with Facebook functionality through embedded plugins and calls to Facebook’s APIs.

Accessibility

Canvas Apps are readily accessible to Facebook’s enormous user base, though all their users must have a Facebook account. They can quickly navigate to them via search, through posts mentioning them in their news feed, or through their Facebook bookmarks in the site’s left sidebar Since roughly half of all Facebook users return to the site each day, these bookmarks may receive a lot of impressions.

Canvas apps are not accessible from mobile devices (although some developers create mobile apps that closely pattern themselves after canvas apps). Giving an app extended permissions feels like a more natural part of the Facebook experience when on Canvas. Apps that don’t require any private information or access can instantly use a Facebook user’s public information without requiring any log in or permissions since users are already logged in.

Canvas apps are best for developers looking to target users who likely to already be Facebook users.

Connect Sites don’t require users to have a Facebook account if the app can function without a user’s Facebook information, making them accessible to the entire internet. They can be accessed from mobile devices. Users can use traditional browser bookmarks to find their way back to Connect sites.

Connect Sites are best for sites that would benefit from Facebook information but don’t require it, and that are targeted at demographics that may be less likely to have Facebook accounts, such as seniors and those from developing countries.

Growth and Virality

Canvas Apps have a “built in audience” or can quickly convert Facebook users into their own users. Users may feel more comfortable publishing content to Facebook from Canvas Apps since they’re already on Facebook and in a sharing mindset. When users install a Canvas app, it may generate an App Discovery news feed story, informing their friends of the install and bringing new users to the app. Users can @ mention Canvas apps in their posts.

Connect Sites may have less virality because users are less comfortable sharing off-site actions to Facebook. However, a reputable brand may be able to outweigh this apprehension. Both Canvas and Connect apps can use Facebook’s friend invite system.

Content and Appearance

Canvas Apps must live within Facebook’s user interface, and therefore are somewhat restricted in the overall aesthetic experience they present. In terms of content, it may be more difficult to pull data streams from third-party sites and social networks such as Twitter into Canvas apps. Users are accustomed to rapidly clicking around Facebook and switching from one Page to the next, so Canvas apps are best kept simple and punchy, or should be designed with mechanisms to keep users engaged or frequently revisiting.

Connect Sites have complete freedom over the look of their apps, outside of using the standard Facebook Connect buttons. It’s easy to pull in outside data streams, and sites may have more leeway in terms of showing objectionable content on their Connect site than in a Canvas app. With a less frantic browsing pace than Facebook, Connect works better for content heavy sites where the user may need to do some digging before having the experience they desire.

Direct Monetization

Canvas Apps can use Facebook Credits as their payment method (and all games must do so as of July 1st, 2011), making payments more accessible, as users may already have a balance of Credits However, Credits come with a 30% tax that goes to Facebook. Non-games can process payments however they want, and do not need to pay Facebook’s tax.

Connect Sites cannot use Facebook Credits, although Facebook has done some off-site testing. Instead the must process payments directly or use an intermediary such as PayPal. Connect games do not have to pay a 30% tax to Facebook. Some users may feel more comfortable entering their payment details outside of Facebook.

Advertising Space

Canvas Apps may only use advertising providers that have been approved by Facebook. Facebook’s own ads are shown in the right sidebar, which may clutter a Canvas app’s experience without earning its developer any money.

Connect Sites may use any advertising provider they want, or choose not to show any ads at all. Both Canvas and Connect sites can user Facebook’s social context and Sponsored Stories ad units.

Implementation, Documentation, and Analytics

Canvas Apps have existed for longer, so there are more documentation articles and forum discussions, as well as a more robust developer community available to help guide you. Facebook has also made a commitment to improving communication with Canvas developers, so they may receive more advance notice of changes than Connect developers.

Connect Sites are designed to be easy to create, with many of Facebook’s social plugins only requiring a few code insertions to get running. However, the Connect Platform is younger, so there are less available resources. Both Canvas apps and Connect sites can use Facebook’s native analytics tool Insights to track their growth and traffic.

Conclusion: Canvas for Growth, Connect for Flexibility and More Referrals

Canvas apps hav become a familiar part of the Facebook experience. With sharing seeming natural, several automatic viral distribution channels, and hundreds of millions of users just clicks away, apps looking for rapid growth may be best suited for Facebook Canvas.

“Connect” is quickly becoming a crucial social layer for existing websites, and is also facilitating the creation of new sites that require personal information. Apps with a wide appeal that can function without Facebook information, but that provide the most valuable experience when a user provides their social data are best developed as Facebook Connect sites. Light implementations like the Like button can also serve to boost referral traffic with minimal coding work.

For in-depth information about specific Facebook for Websites products, here are a list of other Facebook Marketing Bible articles. You can access all of them through joining the service, details about which you can find here.

• All About Social Plugins
• Facebook Connect Integration Best Practices From the Platform Showcase
• The Like Button Style Guide: How to Pick the Design That’s Right for Your Website
• How to Choose Open Graph Tags That Maximize the Value of Your Like Buttons
• The Like Button Placement Guide for Websites
• Publishing to Those Who Have Clicked a Like Button on Your Open Graph Website or Application

In addition, check out these articles from Inside Facebook:

• Facebook’s New User Registration Tool for Websites: Implementation Details and Impact
• Facebook’s Comments Box Plugin Filters Website Comment Reels by Relevance
• In Depth: New Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Discusses Platform Governance, Social Gaming, Viral Channels, and Credits Part 1 and Part 2
• Introduction Page Explains Facebook Instant Personalization to Users

In Facebook’s latest monthly Facebook Ads Newsletter, it announced that advertisers now have the option to include or exclude existing fans of their Page, users of their app, or attendees of their Event in ads targeted to “Friends of Connections” — friends of existing fans, users, or attendees. Previously, those already connected to an advertiser’s Facebook property were automatically excluded.

The change allows advertisers to gain new connections and re-engage their existing connections with a single ad, or specifically target ads to those who are connected and have friends who are connected as well. The change has been applied retroactively, so any ongoing Friends of Connections ad campaigns will now appear to existing connections unless they’re explicitly excluded.

Launched in November 2009, Friends of Connections ads show social context, or the names of a viewer’s friends who are already connected to the Facebook Page, app, or Event being advertised. This social context creates an implicit recommendation for the ad’s destination by a friend, increasing trust and click-through rates.

Now the “Connections on Facebook” targeting section of the ads creator shows a check box to activate Friends of Connections targeting for the destination of the ad. Radio buttons allow advertisers to refine Friends of Connections targeting to “Anyone” — connections and non-connections alike, only people who are connected, or only people who are not connected.

Advertisers can click the “Advanced connection targeting” button to reveal options to include or exclude connections to other Facebook properties they control.

In some cases, advertisers may only be seeking to generate new connections  not re-engage existing connections. They would then want to check the Friends of Connections box, and set their radio button to “Only people who are not fans/using/attending”. Meanwhile, apps or Pages that depend on network effect can now choose to only target existing connections with friends that are connected too.

Videos, as well as Facebook Live video stream app, photos, Orkut, Page tab apps, Connect apps, a German rose app and and Italian quiz app made our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. The apps on the list this week gained between 111,200 and 400,500 MAU.

The list of top 20 emerging apps was compiled based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook and covers apps that grew the most in the past week, ending at between 100,000 and 1 million monthly active users.

Top Gainers This Week

	Name	MAU	Gain	Gain,%
1.	Komedi Kral	876,926	+400,482	+84%
2.	FBML Tab Maker	612,146	+352,121	+135%
3.	60 Photos	519,925	+293,954	+130%
4.	MyPad for iPad	619,918	+268,194	+76%
5.	Facebook Live	634,199	+221,479	+54%
6.	LiveProfile	991,299	+209,750	+27%
7.	King.com	881,294	+185,214	+27%
8.	FameTown	822,914	+182,507	+28%
9.	MigraKut	425,700	+166,523	+64%
10.	Verschenke eine Rose	648,881	+163,261	+34%
11.	UFC Undisputed Fight Nation Game	442,657	+163,124	+58%
12.	มหัศจรรย์การเดินทาง	364,318	+149,487	+70%
13.	Banner de perfil en espagnol	718,253	+142,177	+25%
14.	Dreamland: The first 3D arcade style game ★★★★★	709,131	+127,585	+22%
15.	Miner Speed	795,777	+126,151	+19%
16.	Flutter	602,274	+124,562	+26%
17.	Game-Athanaton-De	486,141	+123,455	+34%
18.	My Tab	250,924	+119,904	+92%
19.	Adevar sau Provocare	621,484	+116,012	+23%
20.	World Series Superstars: Baseball with MLB teams!	326,292	+111,178	+52%

Komedi Kral is a Turkish video app that topped our list with 400,500 MAU; the app allows users to watch, Like and share videos on Facebook. Then there was Facebook Live, Facebook’s official live streaming channel from the company’s Palo Alto, California headquarters. The app grew 221,500 MAU this week, mostly in the U.S., and President Barack Obama’s Wednesday town hall meeting held there may have been a part of this app’s growth.

A couple Page tab applications were on the list. FMBL Tab Maker added 352,100 MAU and My Tab 119,900. Both apps allow Page administrators to create customized Page tabs.

Photos made an appearance on the list in several forms. 60 Photos pulls photos from your friends’ Facebook albums and allows you to either click “nice” or “pass.” Each time you click “nice” the app publishes a story to your friends’ Wall. The app grew about 294,000 MAU. MigraKut is an interesting app out of Brazil that appears to signal that Orkut users are migrating to Facebook is large numbers. The app grew 166,500 MAU and promises to help users migrate their Orkut photos to Facebook in a few simple clicks.

Finally there was Banner de perfil en espagnol, which grew by 142,200 MAU and is a profile banner app that appears to be aimed at teenagers, based on the alternating raunchy and depressing photo themes. But the app has grown quickly probably in part because a total of 3 feed stories are generated when using it. First the app publishes a feed story, then a story is published that the user has created a new photo album, then a story that the user was tagged in this album is published.

A few Connect apps. MyPad for iPad added 268,200 MAU this week; the app is a Facebook for iPad app. Then the LiveProfile smartphone messenger service had a Connect app that grew by 209,800 MAU this week.

Wrapping it up was Verschenke eine Rose, a German app allowing users to send their friends virtual roses, publishing a feed story in the process. The app grew by 163,300 MAU. An Italian app, Adevar sau Provocare, grew by 116,000 MAU; the app is something of a quiz app of a user’s friends, posting answers to the Walls of their friends when a question is answered about them. But what’s interesting is, when this feed story is generated, the app creates a comment from the user asking their friend to “Send me a challenge or respond to a question.”

Come back next Monday when we’ll look at the top 20 Facebook apps by MAU.

One year ago today at the f8 conference, Facebook released the Like button, its Open Graph social plugin for showing affinity for content on third-party websites. The company has now tells us that the site, and most frequently the Like button, have been added to many of the world’s largest sites according to comScore Media. These include all of the top 10 sports properties, 9 of the top 10 news/information properties, 9 of the top 10 entertainment properties, and 18 of the top 25 Comscore U.S. retail sites.

Other stats about the button’s performance that Facebook has shared in the past include:

• 10,000 websites integrate with Facebook each day
• More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook (including over 80 of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites)
• Over half of the 25 fastest growing Comscore U.S. retail sites use Facebook
• Media sites that adopt the Like button average a greater than 300% increase in referral traffic from Facebook

The plugin’s widespread integration helps Facebook in many ways. The Like button helps users share their affinity for things in the most streamlined way possible. Rather than have to click through a third-party designed Facebook sharing panel, such as the popular Add This, and manually assemble a story to share, Facebook’s Like button lets users share with one-click. If they choose, they can add a comment afterwords for more context. This streamlined flow seems to have performed better than Facebook’s old Share button which did much of the same but slower, leading Facebook to phase out the Share button.

Most visibly, the Like button gets Facebook’s name and logo in front a huge audience, encouraging those without accounts to join. When clicked it produces content for the site and news feed, leading to increased engagement. The referral traffic generated by the buttons demonstrates the value of the site to brands, leading them to spend more to advertise their Pages.

The Like Box, which allows sites to display a Like button for their Facebook Page, creates more connections to Pages that advertisers can target. This granular interest targeting allows Facebook to charge more and draw more spend. The plugin also entrenches Facebook, putting up barriers to entry for other social networks. In an effort to gain some of same advantages, Google recently introduced its similar +1 button.

There’s also speculation about how the Like button is a beachhead that lays the groundwork for Facebook to one day launch an as-yet-unconfirmed Open Graph ad unit — one that would allow sites to target ads at their visitors the same way they can target users on Facebook.com. By priming sites for this Facebook ad network-style integration, it could ensure an explosive launch that could steal attention and business from Google’s AdSense. By indexing user preferences across the web, Facebook could also potentially use the button to power an expansion of its search capabilities.

Austin Haugen, a product manager for the Like button, tells us his team’s goal for the coming year is to continue experimenting with different designs of the buttons and the stories they publish to see which generate the most clicks and referral traffic. For example, earlier this month Facebook tested showing users previews of the stories a button would publish to increase transparency.

Few could have foreseen Facebook’s rapid colonization of the internet via the Like button, but now it seems hard to imagine a time before it. The Like button and Facebook’s other social plugins have forced websites to radically rethink their social strategy. If sites want access to Facebook’s enormous user base, they need to think of social as a key part of design and functionality, rather than something grafted onto a finished product.

For access to our series on how to best implement the Like button on your website or social game, including the full versions of our Like Button Style Guide, walk-through of Open Graph meta tags, and Like Button Placement Guide, visit the Facebook Marketing Bible, Inside Network’s industry leading resource for marketing and advertising on Facebook.

Facebook for iPhone 3.4.1 released yesterday and Facebook for Android 1.5.3 released Monday both now allows users to “Find Friends” from their device’s contacts list and send them friend requests or invites to the site. This will help Facebook gain more users and create more connections between its existing users, increasing their loyalty and engagement. The updates also prompts users to add their phone number to their profile if they haven’t already, and Facebook for Android users can now tag friends in status updates.

The iPhone update builds on the recently released version 3.4 which added Event checkins, a Places map, and started pulling the news feed from m.facebook.com. The Android update follows 1.5.2, which added photo uploading to Groups and walls, and better landscape mode viewing.

Facebook’s Find Friends feature has been a staple of the website’s home page for years. When users import their contacts from their email provider, they’re shown a list of non-friends they can send requests or invites to join Facebook to. Facebook also uses the data to power friend suggestions for both the person who uploaded the contacts and the contacts on the list. While a fundamental part of to site’s growth and loyalty strategy, Facebook has also had to respond to German privacy concerns about the feature with changes.

Users can access Find Friends in Facebook for iPhone by clicking the Friends icon on the home screen, and then the arrow button in the top right corner. The app will then scan the device’s contacts list for phone numbers and email addresses that match other Facebook users who can be sent friend requests “Add” buttons next to each and an “Add All” button at the top. Then the flow reveals the device’s contacts that aren’t associated with a Facebook account that can similarly be sent invites to the site individually or all at once.

The Find Friends interface states that Facebook stores contacts, uses them for friend suggestions, and explains how to manage uploaded contacts in Account -> Edit Friends – > Invite Friends -> Manage Invites and Contacts. However, contacts from a user’s phone don’t seem to appear here after using the mobile Find Friends feature, so it’s unclear how they’re being used and whether users can remove them, which could stir more privacy concerns.

While relatively buried in the apps compared to its prominence on Facebook.com, Find Friends for iPhone lets Facebook tap into extraordinarily valuable data — a user’s list of phone numbers. Having stored someone’s number may be a better indicator of friendship than having emailed them, so these mobile iterations of Find Friends might help Facebook make more accurate friend suggestions than the web version.

These Facebook native mobile apps don’t allow users to edit their profiles, but the new updates can generate a special prompt asking users to add their phone number to their profile. The prompt appears to those who haven’t added their number via the web interface. The prompt explains “When your number is on your profile, friends can use Facebook to call you. Only friends will see it.”

By encouraging users to add their phone numbers, Facebook is looking to become a sort of cloud-phonebook. Being able to look up a Facebook friend’s number online or use the instant call or sms functions on the mobile apps significantly increases Facebook’s utility, and therefore engagement. The prompt’s language is designed to calm fears about privacy and make it seem natural and helpful to add one’s number.

Rather than just translate features from the web interface to the native apps, these Facebook for iPhone and Android update take advantage of the unique data users store on their phones. The addition of Find Friends to the smartphone apps will help augment Facebook’s mobile-centric developing world growth strategy. With daily active user counts of 39.5 million on Facebook for iPhone, and 23.7 million on Facebook for Android, the updates will draw new users in its core markets where these smartphones are popular, and make sure these users have plenty of friends to interact with.

Discrepancies among third party measurement services partially obscure what still looks like a steady growth rate for Facebook in the US and around the world.

According to the data we track in our Inside Facebook Gold service, Facebook grew by 21.5 million new users in March to reach 661.5 million monthly active users worldwide. That’s somewhat more than what comScore shows, rather less than what Google’s Ad Planner tool seems to show. We expect Facebook to reach 700 million monthly active users within a month or two, based on most measures.

More data is available on the US. Here, we tracked Facebook growing by 2.78 million people to reach nearly 155 million monthly actives, the typical monthly amount we’ve been seeing lately, and which comScore mostly closely matches. The other services are all over the place. You can find last month’s version of this article here, which we reference below.

The other trend to note from below is that Twitter had a healthy March in the US and around the world.

Compete

Facebook gained nearly 7 million new users in the US in March, following an almost imperceptible increase in February. It now has nearly 141 million monthly unique visitors. Compete also appears to have made some revisions to its numbers from recent months, as well — roughly a 6 million increase for each recent month. For example, the last time we looked at a cross-section of third-party data about Facebook traffic, we see tracked 127.5 million in January — today, January is showing 133.7 million in Compete’s graphing tool.

Facebook’s most direct current competitors in the US are Twitter and MySpace. After a slight loss in February, Twitter grew by nearly 4 million users to reach 31 million uniques. Apparently reversing many months of falls, MySpace grew a couple million to reach 39.4 million uniques.

ComScore

In contrast to those last numbers, Facebook fell from 153 million unique visitors in January to less than 151 million in February then rose back by nearly 3 million to almost reach 153 million according to comScore. Meanwhile, MySpace fell by around one and a half million to end at 36.1 million and Twitter rose by almost 2.5 million to 25.6 million uniques.

The stats company also provides us with worldwide numbers. After staying almost flat in February, Facebook continued what has been pretty typical growth of 15 million or so new worldwide users every month, gaining 16.2 million in March to reach 693 million. MySpace stopped falling, at 62.3 million. Twitter recovered from a slight February drop by growing more than Facebook — 17.2 million more monthly unique visitors worldwide. It now has almost 130 million total.

Google Ad Planner

The graph showing daily active users climbing above 300 million today is the same as what we saw more than a month ago. However, Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner service shows Facebook with an extremely high 860 million monthly active users, fully 270 million above what we previously recorded. We’re not sure what accounted for the difference.

Quantcast

Finally, we have Quantcast’s US rankings for February available. Facebook fell from 137 million to 136 million, MySpace continued dropping — by around 3.5 million to 24.2 million uniques — and Twitter continued a healthy climb, by 2 million up to a shockingly high 90 million uniques.

Facebook added a few job listings for its recruiting team to the Facebook Careers Page this week, as well as a few communications positions and a product manager of messaging job. The Corporate Communications Manager and Pan-Euro Policy Communications Manager job based in London are part of a recent expansion we’ve seen of the company’s communications team. Then there was the Product Manager, Messaging position based in Palo Alto, California, which will require the candidate to help launch new products at Facebook.

Posts added this week on Facebook’s Careers Page:

• Associate, Corporate Communications / Product
• Corporate Communications Manager
• Pan-Euro Policy Communications Manager (London)
• Data Analyst, Credits
• Data Analyst, Gaming
• Data Analyst, Mobile
• Design Recruiter-Contract
• Head of Online Sales & Operations (Austin)
• Head of Online Sales & Operations (Palo Alto)
• University Programs Lead
• University Recruiter (Hyderabad)
• Product Manager, Messaging
• Partner Engineer
• International Payroll Lead (Dublin)
• Security Operations
• Software Engineer – Platform/Integrity
• Product Marketing Associate 1104001
• Payment Operations Analyst (Austin)
• Intellectual Property Principal, User Operations (Dublin)
• French Branding Sales Specialist (Dublin)
• German Branding Sales Specialist (Dublin)
• Manager, Local Sales (Austin)
• National Sales Operations Manager
• Account Manager – French (Dublin)
• Account Manager – German (Dublin)
• Account Manager – Italian (Dublin)
• National Sales Operations Manager
• Account Executive (Dallas)
• Account Executive (Palo Alto)
• Sales Manager (Dallas)
• Account Manager, Gaming (Palo Alto)
• Senior Inside Sales Manager (Dublin)
• Administrative Assistant
• Administrative Assistant (Dublin, Ireland)
• Administrative Assistant (Sao Paulo)
• Administrative Assistant, Local Sales and Marketing
• Executive Assistant

Jobs posted by Facebook on LinkedIn:

• Tools Developer, Network Engineering
• Web Application Engineer
• Power Engineer
• Storage Hardware Design Engineer
• Hardware Engineer
• Network Engineer
• Team Lead, Online Sales Operations (Austin)
• Technical Recruiter – Contract
• Associate, Ad Operations (Sao Paulo)
• DSO Account Manager (Sao Paulo)
• Corporate Communications Manager
• Associate, Corporate Communications / Product
• Administrative Assistant, Local Sales and Marketing
• Account Manager, Gaming (Palo Alto)
• Associate, Ad Operations (New York)

Who else is hiring? The Inside Network Job Board presents a survey of current openings at leading companies in the industry.

Facebook seems as though it filled several recruiting positions this week, as the job listing disappeared from the Facebook Careers Page. A Product Manager of Search position also disappeared, as did a Local, Head of Marketing & Manager, Mobile Analytics job and the Head of Direct Sales Operations, APAC (Singapore) position. Additionally, the LinkedIn feed for the company shows that a few engineering and recruiting positions were filled.

New hires per LinkedIn and Other Sources:

• Amy Thibodeau – now a Content Strategist, previously a co-founder at Cotentini.
• Tony Li – works in Business Intelligence and Growth Analytics, formerly a PRogrammer Analyst at International Financial Data Services.
• Anwesha Jalan – now an Analyst, formerly did the same job at Deloitte.
• Arturo Marín – now an Account Executive, previously the Head of Digital Press Unit at PRISA.
• Nidhi Manchikanti – a Recruiting Coordinator, formerly an intern at Byrraju Foundation in India.
• Nathan Bronson – Software Engineer, formerly at Senior Software Architect at SNS Enterprises.
• Ionel Gog – Software Engineer Intern.
• Brian Winokur – now a Product Analyst – Growth, Mobile, & International, formerly a Software Engineer at Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Prior listings now removed from the Facebook Careers Page: