[tl;dr] In the "Advanced Open Graph" series of posts I'm going to shed some light on lesser known or very new and therefore not as widely used features of Facebook's Open Graph platform. Since launching Open Graph in late 2011, the platform team has been very busy refining and optimizing the available APIs. Despite being in touch with Open Graph every day since more than a year, there are plenty features I've rarely used myself, so this is also an effort in bringing myself up to speed - come …
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A few days ago, the Facebook Engineering Team wrote an article about how Facebook is using Open Graph internally. Inspired by this, we did a brainstorming session at our "annual" Summercamp which is taking place right now in a luxurious mansion near Lake Balaton. At Summercamp, all Socialists build super exciting and awesome projects. In addition to a gazilion of core projects we wanted to play with Open Graph as well. So 1 barbecue, 10 software developers & 100 ideas later we settled on a …
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Wir überlegen täglich gemeinsam mit unseren Kunden, wie erfolgreiche Social Web-Applikationen aussehen können. Durch die Fülle an konkurrierenden Facebook-Kampagnen, fällt es jedoch immer schwerer, Benutzer an die eigene Marke zu binden und auf neue Kampagnen aufmerksam zu machen. Deswegen achten wir immer darauf, leicht verständliche und möglichst Plattform-integrierte Applikationen zu konzipieren. Am Beispiel des "Stiegl Maibaums" soll diese Herangehensweise beschrieben werden. …
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Update (2012/12/12): We have good news and bad news. The bad news first: There is a bug in the current version of the WebKit engine which prevents GraphInspector from working in Google Chrome and Safari. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.The good news: We just released GraphInspector as a Chrome extension! Get it now!Update (2012/02/24): We just released a new version of GraphInspector. There is now a link labeled "@-Mention" left of the result ID field which, when clicked, transforms the ID …
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Florian has just mailed in, asking:
"How can I build a Like-button, that links to a particular tab on my Facebook-page, not the whole page itself?"
Since we get asked this is regularly, here's a quick how-to:
1st Attempt: First thing you might want to try - put the the URL to your tab into Facebooks Plugin-builder like you would do with any other URL. Let's try this with our "We are hiring"-tab (full URL: http://www.facebook.com/diesocialisten?sk=app_173159669408314):
Unfortunately, …
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