Facebook hires and departures: CAO steps down; partner development roles filled + MORE

Facebook added 34 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the engineering, account management and user operations teams.
The company is looking for a number of administrative assistants in different departments, including one to work directly for COO Sheryl Sandberg…

Facebook removed 27 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of measurement, strategic partner development, communications and others.
In notable departures news, Chief Accounting Officer David Spillane is reportedly stepping down, with Jas Athwal, Facebook’s Corporate Controller, Revenue, taking his place…

Social media is everywhere. Yes, brands and businesses are adopting the medium at a rapid pace, but the truth is that many are still struggling when it comes to executing social media strategies. It’s critical to be present where your customers are, but don’t let knee-jerk reactions and fear lead you into the wrong strategies…

Ahead of next week’s Music Biz 2013 industry conference in LA, we spoke with Bill Wilson, VP at organizing trade association NARM/Digitalmusic.org, about the state and future of digital music.
One of the main focal points of this year’s event is a metadata summit for music executives. The summit gathers together executives from major industry players, including Sony Music, Spotify, BMI and the RIAA to discuss how to better work together on data solutions for the music industry…

You’ve likely heard whispers of a company called Wander in the past year. They nabbed $1.2 million, launched out of TechStars, and have since gone relatively quiet.
Until today.
Today Wander is launching a mobile app called Days, which aims to change the way you think of photo-sharing on every basic level…

People share all kinds of interesting things on Twitter. don’t they? Here’s one to add to your list: Steven Soderbergh (he’s a director) is tweeting a novella as he writes it.
Tweeting a book is nothing new, of course. We told you about Jennifer Egan’s novel, Black Box, that was published one tweet at a time last year – and there have been others (in various forms)…

The word Photoshop has evolved to function as a noun, adjective and verb. The Adobe program has become an essential tool for photographers looking to tweak and manipulate their images.
Jerry Uelsmann is a photographer of the old school who modifies his work not on the computer, but in the dark room…

Last month, Google was able to expand its social log-in dramatically by simply integrating its log-in feature with identity management providers Gigya and Janrain.
The deal shone a spotlight on service providers who are usually invisible to end users. But Gigya and Janrain have their products deployed on hundreds of thousands of websites and interact with billions of users every month…

Facebook and Timelines Inc. have reached a settlement in the trademark case against the social network, according to a document Facebook filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Timelines Inc. operates Timelines.com, a website for people to create and collaborate on historical timelines. The company sued Facebook in September 2011 after it debuted an overhauled profile page it called “timeline…

This is a guest post by Eric Schwartzman, a social media training expert.
In just a few weeks, Google Reader goes down for the count.
Before you migrate your feeds, let’s look at how Feedly and Netvibes — my favorite Google reader alternatives — match up. They’re not the only options…