Tips n' Tricks

To force an image to be used as a preview on Facebook when sharing your URL use the following in your tags. More Info. - This has been deprecated in favor of the og:meta method. See Open Graph Protocol section.


<!-- Facebook Preview //-->
<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.fullpath.com/to-your-image.jpg" />


Acroynms

  • FBML => F.ace B.ook M.arkup L.anguage (wiki)
  • FBML => F.ace B.ook M.arkup L.anguage (FB Dev)
  • FQL => Facebook Query Language (FB Dev)

Open Graph (OG) Protocol

A Facebook developed protocol (accuracy?), to turn web pages into "Social Graph Objects" by embedding Namespace (ns) meta-data