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Presenting your page to Facebook

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Presenting your page to Facebook

- [Jen] Facebook created a new way of including social information in the head of an HTML document and its protocol has been set to be open-source, it's called the Open Graph data. And you can find lots of documentation about it online, notably in two places. One is here at the Facebook for Developers page and as you'll see here if you scroll on down this webpage it will tell you about what Open Graph markup is, it'll give you an example and it'll give you a handful of very basic tags that are available to you in terms of putting together some very basic Open Graph data markup for your website. So that's lovely but if you want it in a little bit more detail and with more options available to you have a look at The Open Graph protocol website at ogp.me. And this particular website is going to give you a little bit more detail about some of these. There's some basic ones here. So here we're looking at the movie "The Rock" on…

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