Facebook Launches Standalone Camera App

Later today, Facebook Camera will be available as a standalone app for the iPhone. That's probably great news for a lot of Facebook users, but on a bigger scale, Google+ and Flickr probably have good reason to be worried.

As shown in Facebook's announcement, the new Camera app will allow both photo sharing and consumption. Users can publish multiple photos at once, rather than posting one photo at a time. They can tag friends, add a location and/or include a description. There’s also a few photo editing tools — cropping, rotating and so forth. Or, they can use the app to browse through and interact with their friends’ photos.