article_snippet.sent: A new app makes creating the images simple on a smartphone - and lets you send the images using Facebook Messenger.
article_snippet.sent: Facebook Messenger is opening the door for developers to create innovative new ways for people to connect and express people without having to reinvent the social plumbing. '
article_snippet.sent: This is the first time the world's biggest social network has opened the world's biggest social network Facebook Messenger app to seamless integration with third parties, and this level of integration does not exist on other messenger apps.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier this month Facebook opened up Facebook Facebook Messenger service for developers to create apps and for consumers to communicate directly with retailers, in the social media network's latest effort to expand Facebook reach.
article_snippet.sent: Facebook hopes to transform Facebook's messaging service into one that operates independently of the company's social media network, effectively pitting the company's social media network against traditional email.
article_snippet.sent: Facebook even revealed Facebook will allow smart devices such as doors and home appliances to use the platform.
article_snippet.sent: Facebook comes as Facebook faces intensifying competition from Twitter and Google, as well as from fast-growing messaging apps such as Snapchat and WeChat.
article_snippet.sent: Facebook unveiled the new features at Facebook annual developer conference in San Francisco, for the first time allowing developers to create apps that function inside the Facebook Messenger app, which has more than 600 million users.
article_snippet.sent: Forty different apps will be available on Facebook Messenger in the coming days, allowing users of the service to send each other sports clips and animations, Facebook said.
article_snippet.sent: Another feature will allow consumers to use Facebook Messenger to send a text message to make a restaurant reservation or to receive a notification that a product purchased online has shipped. '
article_snippet.sent: One of the fastest growing and most important members of our family is Facebook Messenger,' said Mr Zuckerberg. '
article_snippet.sent: Facebook used to be this single blue app and Facebook
article_snippet.sent: did a lot of different things, now Facebook is a family of apps,' Mr Zuckerberg said. '
article_snippet.sent: Moving from being a single service to a family of apps is the biggest shift Facebook've made in Facebook strategy in helping connect people.'
article_snippet.sent: The Messenger Platform was also launched, allowing developers to build new services into the app, which is used by 600 million users each month.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Zuckerberg said The Messenger Platform would give users 'more tools for expression'.
highlights_snippet.sent: One of first apps to take advantage of Facebook's new open approach .
  