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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 …

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 …

Woobox just launched a free Pinterest Tab App to showcase your Pinterest boards and pins on your Facebook page, just as they look on the actual Pinterest site!
If you’re an avid Pinterest user like myself, I’m sure you have no trouble imagining how excited we are about launching this app. Here’s a link to install a new Pinterest Tab, and it only takes a minute: http://woobox.com/pinterest/install

Over the past few months, there have been a number of blog posts with instructions for how to add a Pinterest tab to your page.  While some of them worked to an extent (albeit not as aesthetically pleasing as the ‘real’ Pinterest), most recently, those methods have stopped working altogether. Whether or not you noticed, …

There is a new Facebook bug (again) that has changed the behavior of FanGates for the default landing tab.   If you use the Default Landing Tab setting on your Facebook page and show non-fans different content on your tab this bug may be affecting you.
When visitors press your Like button on your default landing tab,  Facebook is sending the user to the Wall instead of back to your tab.  This is happening for pages which are active in Facebook’s testing of the new Recommend this Page feature.
A bug report has been filed with Facebook, you can follow it here.
Solution: FanGate Bug Workaround
Just like last time, we’ve implemented a workaround in the Woobox Static HTML app. You can now enable a special …

There is a new Facebook bug that has changed the behavior of FanGates for the default landing tab.   If you use the Default Landing Tab setting on your Facebook page and show non-fans different content on your tab this bug is affecting you.
Normally, when non-fans visit your Facebook page, they will automatically be sent to the page tab you have set as your Default Landing Tab.  When visitors press your Like button, Facebook would refresh the page and send the user back to the same default landing tab where using a tab app like the Woobox Custom Tab you could show them fan-only content.  The new Facebook bug #19778 breaks this process.  Instead of taking the new fan back to your default …