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    Google Checkout Googler Benjamin Ling Checkouts To Facebook

    Back in June, Justin Rosenstein — a Google product manager — generated some buzz when he left for Facebook with an email calling it "The Google Of Yesterday." Today, news that another Googler has gone over, this time Google Checkout product manager Benjamin Ling. Netly News has more details, and the story also notes YouTube’s […]

    Back in June, Justin Rosenstein — a Google product manager — generated some
    buzz when he left for Facebook with an email calling it "The Google Of
    Yesterday." Today, news that another Googler has gone over, this time Google
    Checkout product manager Benjamin Ling.

    Netly News
    has more
    details
    , and the story also notes YouTube’s former CFO left to work at
    Facebook back in August. I hadn’t caught that departure.

    For more background on Rosenstein’s leaving, see our past post
    Top Google Engineer &
    Product Manager Leave Google
    , as well as an exit interview with him that
    Inside Facebook

    ran
    . See also related discussion
    starting on Techmeme
    about Ling’s leaving.

    Postscript: From Google to Facebook from Google Operating System covers how a fourth Googler, Pedram Keyani from Orkut, left for Facebook in July.


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