Facebook eats more of the web with 'Instant Articles' from Buzzfeed, NYT, and more<article>
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<p>Facebook aims to speed up the delivery of news on the companys mobile apps with Instant Articles. The New York Times, National Geographic and others will use it to publish interactive articles directly on Facebooks iPhone app.</p><p>People already share a lot of articles on Facebook, particularly on its mobile apps. To date, however, they take an average of eight seconds to load, by far the slowest content type on Facebook, the company said
in a blog post on Tuesday. Instant Articles promises to change that with much better responsiveness.</p><p>Users will be able to watch auto-play videos as they scroll through a story. They will also be able to view interactive maps, zoom in on high-resolution images, listen to audio captions, and comment on individual parts of an article in-line, as long as publishers have to added the necessary content.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2922152/facebook-wants-to-become-your-news-destination-of-choice-with-instant-articles.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Facebook eats more of the web with 'Instant Articles' from Buzzfeed, NYT, and more
