Thursday, March 27, 2008

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SAN-FRANCISCO - Google has lost its second high-profile executive to Facebook in a month, with the departure of its head of social media Ethan Beard.
Right after Sheryl Sandberg who left Google in early March and joined Facebook, where he became chief operating officer, Mr. Beard also leaving Google and joins the same company as a director of business development.
While being in Google Beard headed up business development at MTV and VH1, and also worked at high tech investments firms Silicon Alley Venture Partners and Fountainhead Capital.
As the popularity of Facebook grows up, and it becomes the fastest growing social media website, to be hired to that corporation people need to have high professional skills and who already was involved in that kind of works. That is why before hiring people form Google, Beard and Sandberg, Facebook looked through a number of other high profile hires, including Gideon Yu, who is ex chief financial officer at Google's YouTube, and now chief financial officer at Facebook.

Facebook is a social network website which was first founded on February 4, 2004, by 23 year old Mark Zuckerberg. It is a privately hold company. It generates revenue from advertising, such as banner ads. It is valued at $15bn and nowadays more than 500staff are working for them.
The free-access website allows users to connect to several networks and also easily to connect with people in the same network. Through Facebook people can find their co-workers, classmates, groupmates, there's also a chance to find a person with whom they lost connection long long ago. The website has more than 64 million active users worldwide.
In my opinion, Facebook tries to meet its users needs successfully, because almost every week there are new applications and changes, which makes Facebook more fun, and easy to use. I bet that many people whenever they log in their internet they firstly open Facebook to check news that are happening on their profile. I use Facebook as well and very pleased of using it, because it allows me to keep in touch with many people who are far from me.

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