Updated Facebook Home

The Most Popular Facebook app for android has now updated.
Facebook released an update to its Android app Thursday, bringing with it one of the most popular features of Facebook Home: Cover Feed.A list that now includes the HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, and Nexus 4—see the stylish Cover Feed without using Home.
Now Android users can take advantage of the lock screen from Facebook Home without having to download and install the Android launcher.

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Facebook Home’s Cover Feed displays photos and posts from friends on the lock screen of your phone. You can swipe through, comment on and like updates — all without launching the Facebook app or even unlocking your phone.
From the Android app version of the feature, users will get the same look and feel as the Home counterpart including quick access to camera and messages. Chat heads and the Home launcher will not be available as a feature of the app — however, users can enable chat heads from Facebook’s stand-alone Messenger app.
Facebook has offered the option to use Cover Feed without the launcher as part of Facebook Home since launch. Thursday brings that same ability to those who just have the Facebook Android app installed.
This isn’t the first time a feature from one of Facebook’s stand-alone apps has made its way into the main app. The social network traditionally tries out new features on power users who have downloaded apps such as Home, Messenger and Poke before incorporating them into the main Facebook app.
The company also recently invited Android users to join its beta program, and test new versions of its Android app before they launch to the general public.
Facebook’s Android update will be slowly rolling out to users over the next few days.

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Facebook Introduces Embeddable Posts

Facebook rolls out a new feature that will enable web portals to share the social network's content on their site. 'Embed Post' will make it possible for people to bring timely public posts from Facebook to the rest of the web.

However, all Facebook posts cannot be embedded, only those posts whose privacy settings are set to public can be embedded.

According to the announcement, the feature is currently being tested with CNN, Huffington Post, Bleacher Report, PEOPLE and Mashable pages. However, Facebook promised broader availability soon.

This is the second Twitter feature added by Facebook this year. Earlier in June, Facebook introduced hashtags, a feature that was synonymous with Twitter.

In an effort to inject Facebook into more public conversations, the company  introduced embeddable posts that will let blogs and news organizations include status updates, videos and photos in stories.

The posts work in the same way as embeds from Twitter and YouTube. Once your account is enabled, you will have the option to "Embed post." That will produce a code you can cut and paste into a blog entry or HTML file.

For a post to be embeddable, it must be set to public. In its announcement, Facebook used a status update from the British Monarchy about the recent royal birth as an example: 

 

Why embed post?
The intent of such efforts is to provide more inventory to advertisers looking to reach people during live events, like the Super Bowl or the Oscars. Until now, Twitter has offered the lion's share of such ad opportunities, but with 1.1 billion users, 28% of Facebook audience offers a viable alternative. 


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