May 1st, 2012

Facebook Engineer Behind ‘Presence’ Is Turning The Concept Into A Standalone Company

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One of the geeky, cute contraptions of the early Facebook days was a web-enabled beer keg at company headquarters. Whenever an employee swiped their RFID badge on it, a camera would snap a photo of them pouring a beer and post a status update to Facebook. Whenever it ran low on beer, the keg would post pictures of BevMo to Facebook as a desperate refill reminder.

Even though Facebook’s beer keg… → Read More