Facebook Starts Opening Live Video Broadcasting To All, Launches Photo+Video Collages

After letting just celebrities and journalists on its Periscope competitor for a few months, Facebook today began testing its Live streaming video broadcasting feature with average users on iOS in the U.S. What's different from Periscope is that only close friends will receive notifications about broadcasts, and afterwards, replay videos are automatically saved and remain permanently visible. The expansion of Live is part of Facebook's push "to help friends and family feel like they're in the moment with you", according to Product Mangers Vadim Lavrusik and Thai Tran. Along the same lines, Facebook to unveiled a new sharing format let you post multiple photos and videos as it tiles in what it calls Collages.