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Category: Apps

Larger Instagram photos now available

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Any of our readers Instagram users? If so, now when you choose to share your Instagram photos on Facebook, your images will automatically be added to an “Instagram Photos” Facebook album.

The photos will appear full-sized in the News Feed along with the caption that you’ve added to the Instagram photo, and a link to the image’s public URL. The change will also display your Instagram photos beautifully in your timeline to share with your friends and family.

Also, if there are any previously uploaded photos in your Instagram feed you’d like to add to the “Instagram Photos” album, or you forgot to share while posting, just follow the steps outlined in Instagram’s support center in order to share & add them to the album.

You can also share Instagram images that another friend has posted to Facebook by using the “Share” button below that friend’s image in order to post the photo to your own timeline, on a friend’s timeline, in a group, on your page, or in a private message.

Facebook Cards

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Working closely with the Facebook Timeline team, print company MOO translated their Cover Photo concept to a Business Card format by mirroring the fonts, layout and iconography of the Timeline. See image above for how your Cover Photos translate to Facebook Cards.

Each pack contains all of your Cover Photos and each card will display your name, company or college, where you live as well as your Facebook URL, phone number and e-mail address. Located on the back of the card is space for you to add your own quotation or sentence about yourself. By default MOO will pull in the first quote we find in your Favourite Quotations field but you can edit this to say whatever you like. (more…)

Watch Miramax Films via Facebook

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Miramax Films has debuted its new Facebook app dubbed ‘Miramax eXperience’, which will stream movies over Facebook and incorporates features such as sharing.

Miramax eXperience premiered with 20 films available for rental in the U.S., and 10 apiece in the U.K. and Germany, and the movies are available for 30 Facebook Credits ($3) apiece. The number of titles available via Facebook puts Miramax ahead of competitors Warner Brothers, Paramount and Netflix, among others. (more…)

Facebook unveils revamp to games platform

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Right on the heels of Google’s launch of social gaming, Facebook has just announced changes to its gaming system that it says will make games easier to find and play.

Those who play games on the social network will now have a separate stream that displays their friends’ game activity, as well as their scores and achievements in a ticker, Jared Morgenstern, Facebook’s product manager for games and credits, said in a Facebook blog post. (more…)

Facebook Messenger – A faster way to message

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Facebook Messenger debuted today in Apple’s App Store, offering iPhone & Google Android users a unified chat experience with the ability to chat in groups with contacts from not only your Facebook friends but also your those listed in their contacts lists.

This app marks the launch of Facebook’s integration of Beluga, that was acquired in March of this year that specialized in group texting. (more…)

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