Ever heard of Dropship ? It’s an open-source project that “enables arbitrary, anonymous transfers of files between Dropbox accounts.” Dropbox hopes you haven’t; they tried to squelch it this week, and even accidentally reported that it was subject to a DMCA takedown notice, with predictably futile results. I’m mostly sympathetic: I’m a huge fan of their service, Dropship was a clear violation of their terms, and for obvious reasons they don’t want to turn into an anonymous peer-to-peer file-sharing service

The  Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the  Inside Network Job Board , including positions at  Digital Chocolate ,  Funcom ,  A Bit Lucky ,  lolgames , and  wooga .

The Gillmor Gang — Kevin Marks, Danny Sullivan, JP Rangaswami, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — christened the new Gang studio with a surprise welcome to Kevin Marks. It turns out he’s joining salesforce.com on Monday, following JP (six months), JT (7 years), and me, who is celebrating my one year anniversary

Editor’s note : Guest author Gurbaksh Chahal has founded three startups and is currently CEO and founder of  RadiumOne,  an online ad network that aims to combine social and intent data to serve ads. The business model of incentivized app downloads was recently dealt a death sentence by Apple.   Apple said incentivized app downloads were driving inaccurate rankings in the App Store , almost certainly because essentially paying consumers to download apps was a way of gaming a ranking system that used  downloads  as a key metric.  To be fair, there were many quality apps taking advantage of the loophole in the ranking system, but that era has ended.

I’ve been in Las Vegas for most of the month and so have been out of the loop on some of the major stories rocking the world of technology and media.

WARNING: mixed sports metaphors ahead. How many do-overs does a startup get before users give up on it for good

Twitter recently upped its rates on Twitter Promoted Trends from $60K-$70K to between $100K-$120K which means the demand for the unique form of advertising is certainly there. But what are brands getting in return?

Last week President Obama spoke at Facebook , emphasizing during the townhall that the US needs to be bullish on Science and Math education if we are to pull out of the recession, “We want to start making Science cool. I want people to feel about the next big energy breakthrough and the next big Internet breakthrough the same way they felt about the moonwalk,” he said.

Facebook Announces Tech Heavy Set of 2011 Fellows – Facebook announced who was selected to become Ph.D. fellows this year. The Facebook Fellowship Program included people with backgrounds in psychology and economics last year ; this year the five winners who receive tuition and fees for the 2011-2012 academic year, $5,000 for travel, $2,500 for a computer and a $30,000 stipend all study technical disciplines

The Platform Update published today on the Facebook Developers Blog announced that developers can now pull the list of permissions a user has granted their application using the Graph API. It also outlined a new commitment on Facebook’s part to improve its Graph API, FQL, FBML, and SDK reference documentation. By calling “https://graph.facebook.com/me/permissions?access_token=…” in conjunction with a user object, developers can see the complete list of permissions a user has currently granted one of their apps