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Facebook is removing all Static FBML Page Tabs Wednesday, December 5, 2012.  It’s the last chance to move your Static FBML Page tab content to our HTML Page Tab. According to the official report in the Facebook Developer Roadmap:
“On December 5th, we will remove the Static FBML Page app and any Static FBML tabs you had installed on your Page will disappear.”
Don’t worry, there’s really no need to panic, you’ve probably already made the switch from Static FBML Tabs to some other non-endangered species of custom tab app.   However, for those of you who haven’t (or if you’re not sure), we would like to provide you with the following FBML Apocalypse Survival Q&A.
What does this even mean?
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The Woobox Photo Contest app has become an extremely popular solution for running photo contests on Facebook.  Today we’re announcing 8 great new features available for Photo Contests. We’re just getting started, there is even more to come!
1. Amazing Refferal Traffic with Enter and Vote Actions – Woobox Photo Contests now support automatic posting of the Open Graph “Enter” and “Vote” actions. When enabled, all users who enter or vote will have the action posted to their Facebook timeline. Posted actions also have the opportunity to be distributed via the News Feed and Facebook Ticker. The referral traffic we are seeing on contests with this enabled is simply amazing.
2. Fangated Vote Page – You can require voters to like your …

iOS 6 is here, and you can now create Passbook coupons using Woobox! You can use Passbook passes with all of the great features already built into our Coupons app such as requiring that users Like your Facebook Page to get a coupon, limiting coupons to one per Facebook user, and much more.
The new Passbook capability gives users accessing your promotion on their iPhone the option to store a pass for the voucher on their phone in Apple’s Passbook app. The created pass contains a QR code that is unique to each voucher (just like standard Woobox Coupons), which can be scanned with any QR code reading app for instant validation and redemption. For a low tech solution, you can also …

We’re pleased to announce the newest app in the Woobox lineup — Photo Contests! Now Woobox users can run promotions where participants submit photos for entry, vote on submitted photos, and share with friends to gain more exposure and get votes!

You control the submission and voting periods for the contest, and have the option of running the two individually or simultaneously. You’ll also be able to choose whether photo entries are approved automatically, or choose to manually approve each entry before it is available for participants to view and vote on.
Entrants can submit captions with their photo, which will be displayed with the photo in the Vote Page gallery. Each photo entry has a unique shareable link …

There’s a great new offer type available now for Woobox users! The Instant Win app allows you to run a promotion where participants enter to win a prize, and find out immediately if they’ve won.
You set the odds of winning, retry interval, the total number of winners, and (of course) the prize. As with the other Woobox apps, you can create a campaign for Facebook and/or Twitter, meaning you can choose to limit your Instant Win offer to fans and followers, and limit wins or attempts to one per user. All participant information is available to you at all times as two downloadable spreadsheets (CSV file format) separated into Winners and Non-Winners, which contain all the information collected for …