Instagram turns your photos and video – Excelsior (press release) (blog)

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MEXICO CITY

The Digital Photography Instagram announced yesterday its new Boomerang application, which allow users converting a burst pictures on a four-second video that plays forward and backward.

The application said through its official blog that “Boomerang will become a tool to save magic moments and unexpected , making them fun and memorable. “

With the touch of a button, he explained, the application will take a burst of photos and minivideo join a high quality can be played back and forth, either horizontally or vertically, said the firm owned by Facebook, which in 2012 paid a billion dollars for Instagram.

He mentioned that this application will be independent of the social network of photography and does not need login.

Its design is as simple as it seems, the company said, according to which simply press a button “and the application is responsible for joining the images in a video that can be shared on Instagram and Facebook without a problem.

Boomerang is the newest creative application in the family of Instagram, which has more than 400 million active users. The app is available for iOS in the Apple App Store and for Android in Google Play.

Facebook expands the search

To improve the user experience Facebook announced yesterday that extended the scope of the search engine Search FYI, which processes every day an average of 1.5 billion requests and posts two billion, according to figures from the firm.

Tom Stocky, vice president of the network searches World’s most used reported by the official news blog company that searches now allow the detection of not only what the user’s contacts are commenting on a particular topic, but what is said in the global network of Facebook.

He added that was also improved the mechanism that allows search suggestions based on what you type.

So, typing a word in the search box will appear personalized suggestions what is happening now in the global network.

He explained that since yesterday, the search results are organized to help avoid confusing data and quickly understand what the world is saying about an issue at the time.

With one touch, he added, you can find public messages about a link, view appointments and popular phrases mentioned in these publications and take a comprehensive look at the subject of interest for everyone

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