Facebook Announces Open Graph API and 5 New Social Plugins at f8
Today at f8 in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced new details of the Open Graph API and protocol, as well as several new plugins for websites to increase virality and engagement through Facebook services..
Facebook’s 5 New Social Plugins
1) The Like button is the simplest social plugin. No login is required, and it will run in an iframe. Even if you’ve never visited CNN before, you’ll get social context when you visit the site. Now, when users show up to sites that use it, you can see which of your friends like the site, or have engaged with it recently, without the site knowing anything about you. And when users like anything, it automatically gets added to the list of things they like on their profile.
2) The Activity Stream plugin is like a filtered view of the News Feed containing updates just from your site. It’s also just one line of code.
3) The Recommendations plugin provides suggestions for things your users might like. The algorithm is based on both the collective mutual interests of all your site’s users, as well as the user’s personal friends.
4) The Facebook Login plugin works like the existing Facebook Connect login button, but now also shows users photos of all their friends who have already joined the site.
5) The Social Bar plugin is a comprehensive toolbar that includes the Like button, friends who like the site, and Facebook Chat.
Open Graph Protocol
Facebook’s Bret Taylor also just announced the Open Graph protocol, a new way of structuring data on the web with semantic markup. For example,
<meta property=”ob:movie” value=”The Godfather”></meta>
represents the movie “The Godfather”. When that object is marked up on a website, Liking it will place it in the right place on the user’s profile, and mousing over it in the feed will show a hovercard that links to the source object off Facebook.com – for example, IMDB.
In addition, publishers who use the Open Graph markup will be able to publish updates to users after they Like the object on their site. More details on that shortly.
Graph API
Finally, with the Graph API, developers will able to get information on any object in the Facebook graph. With the Open Graph, each object has a unique ID. You can download the JSON representation of any object in the graph simply by going to:
http://graph.facebook.com/[ObjectName]/[ObjectType]
where ObjectName could be a user or Page ID (like justinsmith or Starbucks), and ObjectType could be photos, videos, notes, etc.
Facebook is also giving developers a new search API, and will be reimplementing authentication on the OAuth 2.0 standard. We’ll have more details shortly.
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April 21st, 2010 at 7:12 pm
This also exposes all the hidden friend information if you have a oauth token. So even if you have hidden your friend list on your profile, a stalker can easily pull this information.
To try, go to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api
Click on the link that says https://graph.facebook.com/btaylor
It’ll take you to a link with a long URL with a token etc.
Replace btaylor with the username/id you want to track along with friends such as https://graph.facebook.com//friends?reallylongtokenstring.
You now have access to all the friend info, even if your privacy settings do not allow for it.
What FB has done here is provide a thin veneer of supposed privacy.
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I can’t find anything nor did I hear it in the keynote, is there an idea when the social bar plugin might be available? It’s not posted here yet, http://developers.facebook.com/plugins.
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Hey Sam, we have a line in to Facebook about the social bar. We’ll do a post when we hear back.
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I’ve added the New Like Button-Social Plugin to my website. I already have 29 people who have said they “like it”, this was within an hour. So now, how do I find out who the 29 “likers” are?
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:28 am
Great article – it was helpful in that it gave me material and motivation to write a wordpress plugin for the Like button.
You’re on my RSS feed – keep up the great posts!
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