Ryan joined Facebook in February 2009 and left in 2010. He was an Developers Relations Manager on the Facebook Developer Network team. Ryan was evangelizing and supporting major brands implement Facebook Connect.

Before Facebook, Ryan worked as a Senior Social Designer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco, CA, where he built Facebook applications, and helped launch the first ever public facing Facebook Connect implementation, on CBS’s TheInsider.com.

Ryan co-founded Workstir.com in May 2008. Workstir connects local service providers with consumers that have needs. TechCrunch described the site as a “Craigslist/Yelp hybrid”.

Ryan also co-founded Ping.fm in December 2007 (acquired by Seesmic in 1/2010), a website application that allows users to blast a micro-blog to nearly all social networks and micro-blog services (such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter).

Milestones
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Ryan Merket added a position as CEO at Appstores.com. (2/7/10)

Posted 2/7/11 at 3:25pm
Ryan Merket added a position as Advisor at FlickLaunch. (1/1/11)

Posted 2/6/11 at 10:55am
Ryan Merket added a position as Advisor at TextualAds. (11/1/10)

Posted 11/21/10 at 10:10am
Ryan Merket added a position as Co-founder / CEO at Appbistro. (2/17/10)

Posted 5/15/10 at 2:56pm
Ryan Merket added a position as Advisor at Workstir.

Posted 5/10/09 at 1:50pm
Ryan Merket added a position as Developer Relations Manager at Facebook.

Posted 3/24/09 at 2:57pm
Ryan Merket added a position as Co-founder at Ping.fm.

Posted 8/25/08 at 10:26am
Ryan Merket added a position as Interactive Creative Director at PDG+creative.

Posted 8/25/08 at 10:26am