Facebook tests omnipresent ‘compose’ button to let users make posts from any page of the site + MORE

Facebook removed 30 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after filling roles in the areas of engineering, corporate communications, policy, marketing, sales and others.
Prior listings removed from Facebook’s careers page:

Oracle Applications Engineer (Dublin)
Advocacy Engineer (Menlo Park)
Developer Policy Enforcement Tech Lead (Menlo Park)
Partner Engineer, Games (Menlo Park)
Performance and Capacity Engineer (Menlo Park)
Facilities Services Manager (Menlo Park)
Administrative Assistant, Search (Menlo Park)
IP Counsel (Product) (Menlo Park)
Manager, Corporate Communications (Consumer) (New York – Menlo Park)
Manager, Corporate Communications, Ads (Menlo Park)
Manager, Public Policy (Washington)
Technical Privacy Manager (Menlo Park)
System Engineer, Applications (Menlo Park)
Technology Partner, HR/Legal (Menlo Park)
Technology Partner, HR (Menlo Park)
Technology Partner (Menlo Park)
Data Center Construction Cost Manager (Menlo Park)
Industry Marketing Manager – Contract (Menlo Park)
Integrated Marketing Manager, Marketing Communications (Menlo Park)
Strategic Partner Development, Platform (Menlo Park)
Growth Manager, India – New Delhi (New Delhi)
Analyst, SMB Growth, Global Marketing Solutions (Austin)
Service Operations Analyst – Spanish Speaker , Latin America (São Paulo)
SMB Analyst, Spanish (Dublin)
SMB Associate, UK (Dublin)
Account Manager, Swedish (Dublin)
Client Partner, French (Dublin)
UK Sales Associate – Contract (Dublin)
Account Manager Korea (Seoul)
Client Partner, SEA (Singapore)

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

Constant, close contact with your friends. That’s the promise of a “Facebook phone.” The modified Android OS and mobile homescreen replacement that sources tell us Facebook will unveil April 4th pushes your social life to you so fetching it isn’t interruptive. The news feed brought us ambient intimacy, but Facebook’s homescreen could turn that social graph awareness into a sixth sense…

Facebook users change profile picture show support for same sex marriage – As the U.S. Supreme Court met this week to address same-sex marriage, the Human Rights Campaign encouraged users to change their profile pictures to an image of a pink equal sign on a red background in support of marriage equality…

It’s March Madness time and that means College Basketball has taken over nearly every office, dorm, church group and book club in America. As we hit the Sweet 16 and the brackets heat up, the social web is too. If you have been online at all in the past few weeks chances are you’ve shown your support for your alma mater through a Facebook post or posted a tweet to talk smack about your bracket…

This continues our Pay It Forward Friday series.
Do you give a damn about the world? If so, you’ll want to check out this week’s featured account: GOOD.
It’s a community of people who give a damn – just like you.
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Tumblr, which has struggled with performance issues, is currently undergoing an outage. The issue began at approximately 6:45 Eastern on Friday.
Updated: The issue was resolved at 10:30 Eastern, nearly four hours after it began.

“We’re experiencing networking issues and are working quickly to remedy the situation,” a Tumblr spokeswoman said…

Some users are seeing a new icon in the header of Facebook.com, which allows them to quickly compose a post or share a photo from any page they’re on.
If this feature rolls out more widely it could encourage users to post more frequently, or at least improve the experience when people do decide to share…

The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: PayTango
One-Line Pitch: PayTango lets you pay by scanning your fingerprint instead of a card so you can leave the plastic behind…

As the new Timeline and News Feed rolls out to more users, Facebook is providing more ways for users to share stories about the books, movies, TV shows and music in their lives. This week we found ways for users to add movies to their “watched” or “want to watch” lists directly from News Feed…

Los Angeles-based startup Valarm has packed powerful data collection capabilities into its Android app in order to help consumers and commercial users create custom remote monitoring solutions for less.
The app’s not exactly something you’d buy on a whim, though, as the standard app costs $9…

Facebook added 25 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the infrastructure, human resources, marketing and sales teams.
The company seems to be trying to improve its relationships with major partners across a range of industries with several strategic partnership development positions added over the past few weeks…

Vine, the app that lets you capture and share short looping videos, has received an update today which allows the videos you create to be embedded across the web.
Previously only embeddable in tweets, starting today you can embed both your own six-second videos and those created by others wherever you please…

We might be unsuccessful at getting congress to double NASA’s funding to a full cent on every taxed dollar, but look out when someone starts a crowdfunding campaign.
The latest example is a new IndieGoGo campaign started by a group of organizers in the aerospace industry that want to run a public service announcement video before this summer’s blockbuster movie  Star Trek Into Darkness, the sequel to the J…