First impressionsJust weeks after Facebook announced its intent to buy mobile photo-sharing app Instagram for close to a billion dollars, the company has announced Facebook Camera for iPhone, an app dedicated to shooting photos, applying filters, and batch uploading photos to your Timeline. The app was developed independently from Facebook for iOS by the Facebook Photos team, Photos product manager Dirk Stoop told me, and is focused on letting you share photos as quickly as possible and in higher-resolution than before. Facebook's iPhone app makes uploading multiple photos pretty cumbersome — the experience is far from reflexive. "If we have one minute of a users's time, what can we do to make it easier to share a moment?" he asked. To Stoop, sharing moments often means sharing multiple photos, which is the main focus of Facebook Camera. While you can shoot photos using a built-in camera and apply filters, uploading and browsing groups of photos is the goal. The app's rolling out now to all users in the App Store, and for some users, is already inside an "Editor's Choice" box. Read More
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