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Facebook has only leased a novel COO, Sheryl Sandberg of Google (our insurance coverage). So I spoke with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg today, to get some more linguistic context on her hire and how it fits in with the company's bigger programmes.

In the Q&A at a lower place, Zuckerberg states he plans to proceed on as Chief operating officer - indefinitely. He likewise tells the company's monetization efforts are moving good, and that its platform will develop to foster help developers use Facebook data on early land sites.

VentureBeat: What is your part travelling to be nowadays that you've engaged a chief operational military officer with wide-sweeping duties?

Mark Zuckerberg: It's a full-time job to take the company and get certain that we're locomoting in the right way. All of the dissimilar component part of the company are turning apace - on the ware face, on the business concern face - having Sheryl on board will let us to surmount.

We're as well fashioning ware direction divide from technology. Matt Cohler [a long-time Facebook executive] will be heading for the hills it.

VB: Some people are conjecturing that investors will want you to tread down from your Chief executive officer function, when you guys go public inside the next couple of months.


MZ: I'm provision to rest on as Chief executive officer, and we'll proceed edifice extinct a potent direction team. The possibility on this: A wad of companies have a partnership where the laminitis runs scheme and some other executive focuses on grading concern trading operations. In some companies, the laminitis makes not have a Chief operating officer statute title but is basically still lamming the company. We conceive the most honorable matter is to have the cat scatting the company [in this instance, Zuckerberg] be the Chief executive officer. If people are uncomfortable with that, then that's an issue they should work extinct [Note: Zuckerberg stated this phrase matter-of-factly, not foully].

VB: How are your monetization efforts moving? How about Beacon, how about your early "social ads" experiments?

MZ: Societal Advertisings are making pretty good by all prosody, although we do not talk about particulars because we're a private company. We're grading these efforts - and Sheryl [Sandberg] is in an outstanding place to help us go on to construct our advertizement base. We're felicitous with how we're making in footing of figure of advertizers, and gross.

VB: Many practical application developers are upset about Facebook's recent platform rule changes, and are appearing at outlay more time edifice applications for MySpace and former competitions. How do you realise Facebook's platform developping?

MZ: Our developer community of interests has never been bigger - we have more than 300,000 third party developers nowadays. I would not tell that developers are not determination value here.

The tendency in political programs is that they are not moving to be focussed on any individual land site, such as www.facebook.com. We'll be direction on improving the platform to help developers construct applications that live on former entanglement sites, so people can employ the connectedness they have to put across more expeditiously. An increasing figure of Facebook applications live extraneous of Facebook.com

VB: Facebook has latterly united DataPortability.org, a doing work group among entanglement companies, that means to germinate mutual measures so exploiters can get at their data crossways sites. Is Facebook travelling to allow exploiters - and former companies - occupy Facebook data all off Facebook?


MZ: I consider that trend is worth observation.