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The worst-kept secret in social media came to light Thursday, as Facebook introduced video for Instagram. It includes new video-specific filters, 15 seconds of multi-frame recording and a new feature called Cinema that will take shaky videos and make them look as if they were filmed professionally.
As Vine grows like crazy, Facebook needed to come up with a competitor…

Wednesday night’s Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final featured 11 total goals. It went into overtime. It ended with a thrilling game-winning goal from the Chicago Blackhawks to even their series against the Boston Bruins at two games apiece
It was a classic night of sports TV — unless, that is, you were watching on KXAN in Austin, Tex
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The station inexplicably cut away from the game for several seconds to promote their morning news team just as Brent Seabrook scored the ‘Hawks game-winner…

Today Instagram revealed a new mission statement that reflects its true purpose. At our best, we don’t share photos or videos to brag or get ‘Likes’. We share to let others see through our eyes. Facebook has “To make the world more open and connected”. Now, alongside the launch of video, Instagram has its own guiding words: “To capture and share the world’s moments”
The phrase may be new but it was always the point…

Facebook on Thursday announced that it has updated its Open Graph tags, allowing publishers and authors to have a link back to their Facebook page whenever someone shares content from their website. For instance, if someone shares to Facebook a story from Time.com written by Fareed Zakaria, users who engage with the post can see a prompt to follow Zakaria’s Facebook page…

This morning video was introduced on Instagram and sure enough, brands are already out in full force recording their iterations of branded videos.
Instagram’s Video feature comes with editing and 13 video filters, and more importantly leverages Instagram’s existing community of 130 Million users, which for brands means an active following of thousands upon thousands of viewers…

“Is that Google Glass? Is it really cool?”
Those words, spoken by the ticket taker at Disney’s California Adventure park were the first and last time anyone mentioned my head mounted computer on a recent trip. Unlike a lot of other places I’ve worn it, including at WWDC last week in San Francisco, no one at the park seemed to care what I was wearing on my face…

Viacom has joined the likes of ESPN and Fox in teaming up with Twitter on a social TV partnership.
Twitter announced yesterday that it has joined forces with Viacom to create social video ad campaigns around programs on MTV, CMT, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and other channels.
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Sol Lipman [pictured] knows social video services better than most entrepreneurs. He helped pioneer early social video experiences in 2008 with his startup 12seconds, and after a stint of popularity with Twitter users, it closed down in 2010.
With 12seconds, you took 12-second videos and shared them on social networks…

Facebook has found a successor to Ted Ullyot, the company’s General Counsel for the past 4 1/2 years. Facebook announced Thursday that Colin Stretch has been promoted from Deputy General Counsel to Vice President and General Counsel.
Stretch will lead Facebook’s legal and security departments…

After speculation about a news reader or even a new blogging platform, Facebook and Instagram finally set the record straight today. Instagram has debuted video sharing to its application as announced at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. on Thursday. Live now for iOS and Android devices, users will now be able to share and edit video complete with Instagram’s famous filters…

Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers took home a Best Artist award at last night’s O Music Awards. But it wasn’t for his music, it was for his Instagram page.
A celebration of musicians, their fans, and the internet, the OMAs are a digital reboot of a traditional music awards show. A goat version, if you will…

Marketers looking for a new way to integrate Instagram into social media strategies have a new feature to take advantage of today. At an event held at Facebook, the app’s co-founder Kevin Systrom debuted video for Instagram.
The Instagram that we all know and love hasn’t really changed, only now you can capture moments in videos as well as photos…

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Facebook has added 17 new job listings on its careers page including a new FBX partner manager position based out of Menlo Park. This person would be working closely with PMDs as Facebook looks to strengthen the program.
New listings added to Facebook’s careers page:

Partner Solutions Engineer (Menlo Park)

Software Engineer, Network (Menlo Park)
Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure (Menlo Park)
Executive Communications Associate (Menlo Park)
Global Policy Director (Menlo Park)
Facebook Exchange (FBX) Partner Manager, PMD Program (Menlo Park)
Entity Quality Rater (Menlo Park)
Research Participant Recruiter (Menlo Park)
Data Center Technical Operations Manager (ATN) (Altoona)
Systems Engineer (Menlo Park)
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