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Ben "Bling" Ling to leave Facebook

By Paul Boutin, 7:20 PM on Tue Aug 12 2008, 3,158 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Ben Ling, Facebook's high-profile director of platform product marketing, considered a star poach from Google, is now rumored to be moving on from Facebook. Kara Swisher has further details. We think we know the story: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, in a widely derided move, put a nontechnical guy, her aide-de-camp and chief flack Elliot Schrage, in charge of Facebook's applications platform. Photo above: Ben shaking it at Club Asia in 2006, in a now-unpublished YouTube video.

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