Ryan Merket

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Ryan Merket is an interactive creative specializing in social media, and 3rd party social applications.

Ryan joined Facebook in February 2009 where he is an Associate on the Facebook Developer Network team. Ryan is currently 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, 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). Ryan no longer is involved in the day to day operations of Ping.fm.

Milestones

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• Added position as Advisor at Workstir.
  Posted 5/10/09 at 1:50pm
• Added position as Developer Relations Manager at Facebook.
  Posted 3/24/09 at 2:57pm
• Added position as Co-founder at Ping.fm.
  Posted 8/25/08 at 10:26am
• Added position as Interactive Creative Director at PDG+creative.
  Posted 8/25/08 at 10:26am

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