What recession? Assuming two anonymous responders to a Quora post are telling the truth, there’s certainly no shortage of money for engineers joining Facebook straight out of school.

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One of the charms of Quora is that you never know who will answer your queries. For example, the site’s founder, the former Facebook Chief Technology Officer, Adam D’Angelo. may happen to chime in when you ask, “How long would it take to build Facebook as of July 2011?”

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While many companies will file charges against someone who exploits their system, Facebook decided to take things in another direction after Chris Putnam and two friends exploited a bug to make the site look like MySpace.
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Facebook’s brand effectiveness outranks all other social media’s branding efforts, according Brand Keys’ Customer Loyalty Index.
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While Facebook never ended up with a mascot to represent the company, Sean Parker, a co-founder of Facebook and Napster, wanted to have a hedgehog as the company mascot.
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If you thought Facebook was copying Google and Foursquare with their new Places logo, think again. Aaron Sittig, the lead designer at Facebook, posted a coy response yesterday on Quora claiming that they “could only wish we’d been so clever.” Whether or not placing the four in the logo or using Google’s places pin (found here) was intentional, it’s pretty clear that the images “subconsciously” appeared at a minimum.
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How does Facebook generate your ID when you join the site? While new users of the site aren’t aware of the use of numerical IDs, since the beginning Facebook’s profile system has been based on IDs to identify each user. While the site first began by auto-incrementing IDs, the model that the site has used for generating these IDs has changed over time. The history of the Facebook ID isn’t a regularly discussed topic among most users, however one Quora user posted the question and Justin Mitchell posted a great response.
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Quora is pushing forward with the continued opening of their service as Facebook Questions continues through a relatively rocky start. Given that it has become relatively obvious that Facebook Questions is nothing short of a direct attack against Quora, the company is preparing to release it’s incredibly high quality content to Google. One of the primary things that Quora users are probably asking themselves at this point is whether or not the opening of the site to search engines will negatively impact the quality of content on the site.
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Given that Quora is filled with a ton of great content and practically every other online publication is quoting the answers on the site, I figured that it would be a good idea to start posting Quora questions of the day, focused specifically on Facebook. Today’s question relates to the tension between Facebook and Quora, which has become magnified since the Questions product was rolled out yesterday.
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Remember when MySpace was crashing all the time and the stupid Pac Man game was showing up because the site was “overloaded” with traffic? Even if you weren’t a MySpace user back then, all you need to know is the frequency of MySpace going down due to technical issues was one of the main reasons Facebook was so successful. Facebook has been able to keep the site up despite the rapid growth in traffic, however with the company’s new questions product, Facebook doesn’t look as much like an original technological innovator.
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