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Facebook Engineer Behind ‘Presence’ Is Turning The Concept Into A Standalone Company

One of the geeky, cute contraptions of the early Facebook days was a web-enabled beer keg at company headquarters. Whenever an employee swiped their RFID badge on it, a camera would snap a photo of them pouring a beer and post a status update to Facebook. Whenever it ran low on beer, the keg would post pictures of BevMo to Facebook as a desperate refill reminder. Even though Facebook’s beer keg world domination plans never played out, the technology behind the keg, called Presence, may still show up in the...

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Published By: Tech Crunch - Tuesday, 1 May, 2012

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