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Bit.ly, probably the most heavy-weight alternative to TinyURL available, has hired Rex Dixon as its first Community Manager. We reviewed Bit.ly's powerful link shortening service in July.

In a press release statement today it is reported that Google Senior Vice President Tim Armstrong will replace Randy Falco as AOL's new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Falco, along

Social networking company for families FamilyLink.com announced today that it has appointed Cliff Shaw to be its new Lead Developer.

Cincinnati, Ohio college student and blogger Joshua Harris announced that he has been hired to blog for multimedia MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) game guides website Project Lore.

Online dating site Match.com announced today that it has appointed Karl Gregory as its new UK Marketing Director.

Hyperlocal website Outside.in CEO Mark Josephson announced on the company's blog that Andy Parsons has been hired to be its new Chief Technology Officer.

Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, has added more than 100 new employees in the past year, including several additions to its executive team. Today it announced

Global online social network Friendster announced today that it has expanded its team, offices and partnerships in the Asia Pacific region. As part of that expansion, Narciso Reyes will be

Today global mobile community Mig33 announced that it has named former Yahoo! Senior Vice President Steve Boom as its new Chief Executive Officer. Boom will also join the company's Board

Today microblogging sensation Twitter announced on its blog that it has hired Kevin Thau as its new Director of Mobile Business Development. According to the company, "although his title includes

Latino social network company Quepasa, owner of Quepasa.com announced it has hired Brian Garrett to serve as VP of Business Development and Strategy and Paulo Maia as the General Manager

Enterprise social networking company Lithium Technologies announced this morning that it has made two new executive hires. Charles Hough is the company's new Senior Vice President of Business Operations and

Open source wiki platform Mindtouch has hired Mike Diliberto as a new Sales Engineer. We were told of the news by friend of the company and Chief Evangelist for Pelotonics

Software developer rock stars Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) and Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) have hired North Carolina based Jarrod Dixon as a staff developer for their hot new tech

MBA, consultant and tech blogger Serkan Toto announced in a recent Twitter update, "...starting today, I am the new Director of Marketing at iKnow!, the world's social learning platform".

Telecommunications product strategist Cathy Edwards announced in a recent Twitter update that she has been hired by online social networking company Friendster as its new Senior Product Manager.

Silicon Valley tech geek, blogger and early adopter Louis Gray announced on his blog that he has taken on an advisory role with social web company SocialToo and will sit

Dallas, Texas based white lable social networking service Telligent announced today that it has appointed Carl Yankowski to its Board of Directors. Yankowski currently serves as CEO for Ambient Devices,

Jobwire is normally a place where we report on hires in the Web and New Technology fields. Sometimes we come across additions to an organization that are not necessarily new

Recent journalism graduate from the University of Westminster Richard Brennan announced on his blog, "I have accepted the role of Online Networking Coordinator at ISEAL Alliance. I start on January

Social network Facebook hired Daniel Levy as the director of risk management. According to Venturebeat, Levy will be in charge of protecting the company's finances, which includes ad revenue from

You may remember Sched.org, the unofficial social scheduling app that many people used at the last two SXSW music and internet festivals. Did you know the service is now being

Munich based online reputation management company myON-ID announced today it has hired Sebastian Küpers as its new Head of Platform Development. Küpers will develop the online network myonid.de to become

The non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation announced today it has appointed Neeru Khosla to its Advisory Board. The Wikimedia Foundation is the organization behind the web encyclopedia Wikipedia.

New York City based social media services provider Ripple6 announced today it has hired George Moser as its new Senior Vice President of Field Operations.