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Facebook Connect Wordpress Plugin | Sociable! - The Social Media Blog. Open Graph protocol. People use stories to share the things they're doing, the people they're doing them with and the places where they happen. Let people share stories about your app on Facebook through a structured, strongly typed API. To publish Open Graph stories with the Share dialog, you do not need to implement Facebook Login or ask for additional permissions. For more information, see Share Dialog. If you create a custom sharing UI to publishing Open Graph stories, you need to implement Facebook Login and request the publish_actions permission from people using your app.

This also means you need to submit your app for review, see Login Review. Both of these steps help make sure people using your app are aware of the action they are taking by sharing and helps provide a high-quality experience. Privacy When you configure an action you should determine the default privacy level.

Facebook's Open Graph Personalizes the Web. Facebook has created a platform that allows sites and apps to share information about users in order to tailor offers, features and services to each one's interests and tastes — even if that individual has never visited the site before. When you’re signed on to Facebook, participating websites like CNN.com will display information, goods and services tailored specifically to your interests — without requiring you to sign in at that website or provide it with any information.

Speaking at the F8 Developer Conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former FriendFeed CEO Bret Taylor, who is now Facebook's director of product, named three new features that will make this possible and easy to implement. Open Graph Zuckerberg and Taylor described a concept called "Open Graph" that will be useful to businesses and services. This is essentially a replacement for Facebook Connect that makes it easier to share information. Social Plugins Graph API Privacy Concerns. HOW TO: Add Facebook "Like" Buttons to Your WordPress Blog. This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. Facebook officially unveiled its new Open Graph API and tools a few weeks ago, making it possible for developers and end users to easily hook their own sites into Facebook's broader ecosystem.

In just the first week, Facebook's social plugins were integrated into more than 50,000 websites. We expect that number will continue to increase at a rapid rate, especially as businesses and e-commerce sites figure out how to best harness the power of Open Graph.Although Facebook has ample documentation to help you implement the "Like" buttons onto your own website or blog, it's still easier on some platforms than it is on others. Posterous and Typepad users, for instance, have "Like" buttons as a built-in option. Option One: Edit Your Theme Files Why would you want to do this? Facebook Doesn't Help Me Find Anything. Some of this is generational. I am more comfortable firing up a search query than polling my Twitter followers or Facebook friends.

But as social media activity increasingly has an impact on Bing and Google search results, it makes me wonder whether it will become an annoyance for me rather than something truly helpful, which mostly has to do with how I have approached social networks as a quasi-public person in what's turning into a private networking world. The possibly logical assumption that Facebook friends are my actual friends is causing me to wonder whether I have missed the point of Facebook. From the beginning of my Facebook experience, I decided to accept every friend request sent to me. I did so because I figured that I would have no way of knowing whether that person had read one of my books, or saw me speak, or is a regular newsletter or blog reader of mine, or something else.

And it's not just Facebook. I've never blocked a Twitter follower. January 17, 2011.