Facebook, The Rock, OG Protocal and Other UnLIKEly Stories Impossible to LIKE
--D-OG:ME-AT
"...IF EVERYONE IN THE WORLD GOT TOGETHER IN AN HUGE SEMANTIC ORGY TO THINK UP TAG NAMES FOR STUFF ON THE INTERNET, AND THE KID FROM FACEBOOK DECIDED TO PUT HIS MOST ANTI-SOCIAL EASL-SPEAKING ENGINEERING GEEKS TO WORK IMPLEMENTING IT AS A MASSIVE, IMPENETRABLE TANGLE OF BUTTON PUSHING AFFIRMATION ADDICTS IN CODE SO DENSE..."
OGP
Unlocking the potential of the OpenGraph Protocol to be a universal API...one URL at a time!
Dear Niall and the Posterous gang:
Right after I sent the email last night regarding the very same subject, I received this from the OGP,
Niall Kennedy, who has constructed a nifty configurator for people who want to try and like a page or two on Facebook!
Unfortunately, it's only useful if you have A LOT OF EXTRA TIME ON YOUR HANDS, as it generates the META Tags for One Page, URL, Site, or other things that come in one's --ONE at a time.
After compiling the information below representing only a fraction of mine and thousands of other third-party bloggers frustration on sites like Posterous (WHO has provided little or no transparency) regarding this cosmic-seeming joke, I am overwhelmed by Niall's well-meaning but utterly USELESS TOOL and Posterous, et. al.'s lack of help in the matter to the degree that I am unable to gather it into a more comprehensible puzzle for presentation than the one which you see, and the same one which presents itself to me on a daily basis.
Maybe Niall will have some thoughts on this predicament which continues to generate an overwhelming amount of Facebook Real Estate, by way of Posterous, via my site (for about the last six months), so that each time a PAGE on MY BLOG is 'Liked', each time it is transformed into a lovely Facebook Page--each time it is anonymously christened, "Dogmeat"!
mark zuckerberg just called me and said he wanted to start an apt. complex in my area, and he asked me what we should call it.
i said the facebook arms.
he said he didn't get it
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ALTHOUGH, I WILL SAY,
On behalf of myself and the other million or so bloggers who have tried and failed, or tried and given up, I'm afraid NOT ONE of us will ever set foot in a movie theater screening The Rock as long as we live.
On a less cynical note: Thank you, Niall for updating the one and only explication with something a little more concrete than its former analogy to a wrestler
(WHICH was neither instructive, nor anywhere near tasteful) in an otherwise absurd experiment in exactly what one would imagine might occur...
"...IF EVERYONE IN THE WORLD GOT TOGETHER IN AN HUGE SEMANTIC ORGY TO THINK UP TAG NAMES FOR STUFF ON THE INTERNET, AND THE KID FROM FACEBOOK DECIDED TO PUT HIS MOST ANTI-SOCIAL, EASL-SPEAKING ENGINEERING
GEEKS TO WORK IMPLEMENTING IT INTO A MASSIVE, IMPENETRABLE TANGLE OF BUTTON PUSHING AFFIRMATION ADDICTS IN CODE SO DENSE..."
(well you probably get where I'm going)
(next thing you might want to do is send GITHub a note letting them know that if there are links to the SDK on their site, NO ONE HAS ANY IDEA HOW TO FIND THEM)
I read your message and I completely agree with trying to provide a little accessibility to this thing for those of us who have grown disenchanted from just a few of the examples like those above and below.
Thanks.
Nothing but time.
Sincerely,
Dogmeat
Quentin Tarantino was an uncredited screenwriter on this film, along with Jonathan Hensleigh and Aaron Sorkin.
Sean Connery insisted the producers build a cabin for him on Alcatraz as he didn't want to travel from the mainland to the island every day; he got what he asked for.
Most of the scenes involving F/A-18s are stock footage of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.
Dedicated to producer Don Simpson, who died during production.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Niall Kennedy wrote:
I created a new website for publishers interested in generating Open Graph protocol markup for their webpages. Fill out values applicable to your webpage, submit, and receive a block of OGP markup to copy into your site's <head>.
http://opengraphprotocol.us/
The website is backed by a new Open Graph protocol input sanitizer/validator with many assumptions built-in to account for some loose definitions within the OGP spec. The PHP class accepts user-submitted values, cleans up whitespace, checks against allowed values, and stores the input. I also included a few tools for country and region validation (based on ISO 3166 and the Debian ISO Codes project) and converting the class to HTML. If you have libcurl there are a few extra features such as checking an og:url actually exists or an og:image returns an appropriate Internet media type.
https://github.com/niallkennedy/open-graph-protocol-tools
I believe the majority of publishers we would like to see include OGP markup in their pages are not editing their pages or templates by hand. Their websites are powered by GoDaddy, WordPress, Drupal, and other tools intended to hide the code and the headaches of web publishing. If Open Graph protocol can be distilled into tools, validators, and helpers easily reused on these platforms I think we'll see a lot more indexable content making its way onto the Web.
I will break down some of my spec assumptions into separate topics/threads. Feedback appreciated.
Thanks,-Niall Kennedy
URL
Requested URL: http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com/
OpenGraph
- og:site_name: Dogmeat
- og:url: http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com
- og:type: blog
- og:title: Dogmeat
- og:image:
- og:title: Dogmeat
- og:type: blog
- og:image:
Warning
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Duplicate tags You used "title" multiple times, but it should only appear once
Duplicate tags You used "image" multiple times, but it should only appear once
Duplicate tags You used "admins" multiple times, but it should only appear once
Duplicate tags You used "app_id" multiple times, but it should only appear once
Info
| Type | blog |
| Admins | 100001500567461 |
| App ID | 190502347629977 |
| Description | Neglected in '10: The Mafu Cage i like this guy because he cusses sometimes The Mafu Cage is Three Women meets Grey Gardens meets Tarzan. It is ridiculously '70s. It is so '70s, it should... |
| Image |  |
| Title | Dogmeat |
| Site Name | Dogmeat |
| Site URL | http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com/ |
| URL | http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com |
Debug
| Data Source |
" extracted from <meta property="og:image" />"100001500567461" extracted from <meta property="fb:admins" />"190502347629977" extracted from <meta property="fb:app_id" />"Neglected in '10: The Mafu Cage i like this guy because he cusses sometimes The Mafu Cage is Three Women meets Grey Gardens meets Tarzan. It is ridiculously '70s. It is so '70s, it should..." extracted from <description> or first <p>"Dogmeat" extracted from <meta property="og:site_name" />
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Administer Your Page.This is the administration interface for your webpage at http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com/neglected-in-10-the-mafu-cage. You can see Insights and publish to the users that have liked your webpage. Only the administrators of the webpage can view this interface, other users are sent to the webpage. <meta property="og:type" content="article" /> | |
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Like Button
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatgetsmehot.posterous.com%2F" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="height: 62px; width: 100%" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
OPEN Graph Protocol
Build Open Graph protocol markup to describe your web pages. Example: Barack Obama.
Additional resources
- Open Graph protocol community site
Markup
Please copy and paste the following markup into the <head> section of your HTML document.
Basic information URL
URL of the webpage you would like to share. Similar to the canonical link used by search engines to collapse URL references.
Page type Activity Sport Company Bar Cafe Hotel Restaurant Cause Sports league Sports team Band Government Non-profit School University Actor or actress Athlete Author Director Musician Politician Profile Public Figure City or locality Country Landmark State or province Album Book Drink Food Game Movie Product Song Television show Article Blog WebsiteClassify your page as one of the following page types. This classification will help set context for your page among the many pages of the Internet and is a required to include your pages in search engines such as Facebook.
Site namePage titleIs this webpage part of a larger site? Please include the name of your website.
Title of the unique web content on this page.
Page imageAn image URL representing your page content. Typically displayed alongside your page title and description to provide a more visually-appealing summary of your page. To ensure maximum compatibility we suggest using an image 50x50 or larger with a maximum aspect ratio of 3:1 in a PNG, a JPEG, or a GIF file format.
Page descriptionA one- or two-sentence description of the page. Used to auto-populate a description of the shared object.
I'm hoping that one of you might be able to help me finalize the correct open graph (og type) equivalent for my site, which has finally successfully associated with my site's Facebook Application. I've been trying different things for a very long time, and I've done everything I can. I just need to know which one of these Specific Posterous Elements (you think) I should plug into my og:title, og:url, og:etc. here's how she reads now http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatgetsmehot.posterous.com%2F i realize you guys have the information for the Facebook SDK inserted which is causing the warning, but I don't know how else to associate my app without doubling up. here's how it's set currently:
<title>{Title}</title>
<meta property="og:title" content="{Title}"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="blog"/>
<meta property="og:image" content=""/>
<meta property="fb:admins" content="100001500567461"/>
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="190502347629977"/> I've tried everything to this point, and without showing you examples of the various combinations of permalink, post_url,post_id, brackets, no brackets, encoded no encoded...it just got to the point where I have exhausted any sense I used to make out of it. Hoping you can help. Thanks,
Warning THIS IS FOR THE HOME PAGE URL
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Info
App ID
190502347629977
Description
Occurrences of the word "glean" per million words: About this chart via wordnik.com
Image
Title
Dogmeat I'm mainly trying to get this to show the title for posts on post pages, but i don't know how to plug in an 'else' or 'if' or which corresponding Posterous Element I would use. So far I've tried og:title={Title} and og:title={PageTitle} I've also tried encoding the brackets, and lower case 'title' and nothing at all, and everything combination you can think of for the last six months or more...So I could really use some advice at this point.
Site Name
Dogmeat
Site URL
http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com/
URL
http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com
Debug
Data Source | "blog" extracted from <meta property="og:type" /> |
Data Source | "Dogmeat" extracted from <meta property="og:title" /> |
Data Source | "http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com" extracted from <meta property="og:url" /> |
Data Source | "Occurrences of the word "glean" per million words: About this chart via wordnik.com " extracted from <description> or first <p> |
Data Source | " |
Data Source | "100001500567461" extracted from <meta property="fb:admins" /> |
Data Source | "190502347629977" extracted from <meta property="fb:app_id" /> |
Data Source | "Occurrences of the word "glean" per million words: About this chart via wordnik.com" extracted from <description> or first <p> |
Data Source |
"Dogmeat" extracted from <meta property="og:site_name" /> |
AND THIS IS FOR ONE OF THE LAST POSTS AS OF THIS EMAIL: http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com/glean
Info
Type blog Admins 100001500567461 THAT'S RIGHT App ID 190502347629977 THAT'S MY aPPLICATION (FOR THE LONGEST TIME IT SHOWED THE POSTEROUS fACEBOOK APP ID AND THEN RECENTLY IT CHANGED.
Description Occurrences of the word Image Title Dogmeat THIS SHOULD be the Post Title
the good news is that it's generating Facebook Pages like they're going out of style just by clicking like: Gaejang Guk likes this. Be the first of your friends to like this. · Admin Page But unfortunately they're all called 'Dogmeat' (to the tune of about 50 AND COUNTING!!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dogmeat/133222713408441
I DON'T KNOW IF I'M USING THE WRONG {TITLE} FOR THE BLOG Title or the wrong one for my OG Meta attributes....
{
"id": "133222713408441",
"name": "Dogmeat", "picture": "", "link": "http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dogmeat/133222713408441",
"category": "Personal blog",
"website": "http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com/glean", (it's also calling each new page a website, but that is a peculiar to FB and if i can get the titles back, i can deal with it. It used to create pages with the Page name for the Facebook Page until recently.
"description": "Occurrences of the word", "likes": 1
}as you can see, it's slightly out of hane:
Whatgetsmehot.posterous.com Keywords Pie
Whatgetsmehot.posterous.com Keywords Popularity (by Google Search Trends)
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