"I mean, Google is freakin' massive, and they've almost had no effect on the community," Hacker Union head and 10gen engineer Brandon Diamond told us by Gchat. "They're trying to get out there, but they seem to be awful insular. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook is the same way... it will probably help more than it hurts. Fb obviously isn't banking on the 'tremendous number of hackers living in NYC.' Instead, I think they believe they'll be able to woo many new hackers with the added bonus of being in a cool city. It's a boon."

As to whether the new office will lure back some of the talent Facebook poached in the form of Drop.io, Hot Potato, Daytum and Mail Rank, but survey says no. "I don't suspect? Highly doubt it, actually," says a source, regarding the Hot Potatoes.
CC FAIL. "Note to all: Don't CC the current CEO on an email that speaks to replacing the current CEO. #idiot," tweeted Zelkova Ventures' Jay Levy before Thanksgiving. Crappy way to find out you've been terminated, we suppose, but it turns out the CEO was in the clear. Apparently a rogue board member was musing a little too freely on email and indiscreetly copied the founder on an email about firing him. "The rest of the board had 110% confidence in him and asked that board member to remove himself from the board," said a source familiar with the matter. "Him being the CEO... CEO staying and is going to continue to grow the company into a force in the industry."

WHITHER THE PARTY? Last week, Betabeat interviewed MessageParty founder and Y Combinator graduate Amanda Peyton for a story about East versus West. We casually dropped by the site and noticed it was a bit of a deadzone; Ms. Peyton herself hadn't posted in three months, the Twitter account hasn't tweeted since August, and the last newsletter went out in June. Yikes, we thought, remembering MessageParty's April pivot. Has the startup bitten the dust? "We are actively considering a few options for the future of the product, though it won't stay in its current state for much longer," Ms. Peyton said in an email.

SEAN PARKER, MAN ABOUT TOWN. Lolol:

He said, 'Google my name and Lindsay Lohan. You'll see that a year ago there's an article written that says she had me kicked out of Bungalow 8.' He said, 'I don't think she had me kicked out... I want to know who [did].' "Lerner, who knows Lohan socially, agreed to look into the matter. It turns out it wasn't the Mean Girl but her ex, DJ Samantha Ronson. Satisfied, [Sean] Parker restored Lerner's profile in just six hours.

STAYING TRUE TO STEREOTYPES. Tumblr's John Maloney has purchased a new bicycle, which according to engineer Matt Hackett "is attracting quite a crowd. Bikes are flames to moths here in Tumblr HQ." The hipster startup has a room full of the the things.

ALL YOUR PARTIES ARE BELONG TO US. Send Betabeat your holiday party tips.

Nicholas Felton. Photo: feltron.com

Facebook prefers to keep things discreet, thank you very much. The social network is arguably the hottest tech company to work for right now, so it can probably demand whatever nondisclosure clauses it wants, whether it's preliminary talks with a potential recruit with a clever Tumblr or post-hire details from Daytum's Nicholas Felton and Ryan Case, now part of Facebook's design team. The Daytum founders sent over this officious "FAQ" on the move.

Interesting that Facebook did not acquire the Daytum I.P., which suggests we won't see any Daytum-esque features on the site anytime soon.

"I really don't have much to add," Mr. Felton demurred when Betabeat pressed for an interview. Mr. Felton does share the number of days he spends traveling, number of miles he runs and number of celebrity sightings via Daytum, although he's not updated in a while. Via Twitter, we learn he'll be keeping a home in New York but spending a lot of time in Palo Alto. Mr. Case's tweets are private.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE FACE. Facebook has [edit: not acquired, hired the people behind] pretty, pretty Daytum, the two-person New York-based start-up that has been helping users organize and make spiffy all that data we create: check-ins, runs, hot dogs eaten. The app will live, the company said, but the team is moving out West.

THAT WAS FAST. Is there a talent crunch? We thought we had heard something like that. But the engineer-centric, General Assembly-headquartered start-up Nodejitsu, which just raised its $750,000 Series A, has hired three developers and one social media junkie. Three of the hires are in New York. "Spend funding, acquire ninjas," said co-founder Marak Squires. "And I got one in Texas and one in SF, so thats five total... It's easy to hire good developers when you have cutting edge technology and you are awesome." And they're still lookin'.

OBLIGATORY HACKATHON NEWS. Betabeat quoted designer Cemre Güngör in a post about hackathon fatigue this morning. About an hour later, we received word that Mr. Güngör is involved in organizing one! "I'm helping launch an awesome event (way more awesome than any of the hackathons running in NYC)," he said. "Basically a hackathon for designers.. nobody's doing it yet. It was very successful in SF so we're trying to bring it here." The hackathon will bring together experienced designers in product, interaction and web to co-work on hacks or personal projects for a full day in small groups. May 7, Pivotal Labs, apply here at the Product Design Guild.

DEALS. New York-based deals site BuyWithMe announced that it has hired a new CFO, Scot Rosenblum. Scot comes from Brightcove.

"YELP FOR HOTNESS." Talent Fare uses geo-location to find the "talent" or attractive people at local bars using crowd-sourced ratings. Available for Android and as of today, the Apple App Store. Apple rated it 12+ for Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor and Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes. Dunno, we use Color. Siiiike. We don't use anything, because this is shameful!

ALSO: Location-based Leetto launches new beta with "blasts." Bravo creates Top Chef tour on Foodspotting. Crisp Media launches platform for building HTML5 ads and will announce funding soon for expansion to Asia.