Capturing and sharing visual content via an application

A non-transitory computer-readable medium for capturing content for sharing, the computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform a method, the method comprising:

• instantiating a content capturing application on a first computing device;
• instantiating a visual output providing application for execution within the content capturing application, wherein the visual output providing application does not execute independently of the content capturing application, and wherein the visual output providing application is configured to display an image;
• providing for presentation of the image displayed by the visual output providing application via the first computing device;
• capturing, via operation of the content capturing application, at least a portion of the image displayed by the visual output providing application;
• and
• facilitating transmission, via a network, of the captured at least the portion of the image displayed by the visual output providing application to a second computing device.

A computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory storing:
• an operating system;
• and
• one or more applications, including a screen capturing application, executing within the operating system, the screen capturing application comprising:
• one or more embedded applications executing within the screen capturing application;
• and
• a screen capturing module programmed to capture an image generated by the one or more embedded applications.