Facebook seems to be pumping enough for the media these days from introducing new apps, partnering with various services (like Digg) to having new people become a part of its team. The latest news in this regard is Mozilla Exec Mike Schroepfer as Director of Engineering as reported by Michael Arrington.

Mike will be leading up Facebook’s Platform though the present line of works hasn’t been confirmed as yet. He would report directly to Mark Zuckerberg by September.

Mike had been the head of the engineering team in Mozilla and was responsible for Firefox. His previous positions had been as CTO of Sun Microsystem’s data center automation division. The basic idea behind might be to help Facebook make itself more open source and Mike appears to be the right man for the job.

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