Comments on: Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and Alex http://infomotions.com/blog/2010/09/twitter-facebook-delicious-and-alex/ Thoughts on libraries and librarianship Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tweets that mention Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and Alex « Infomotions Mini-Musings -- Topsy.com http://infomotions.com/blog/2010/09/twitter-facebook-delicious-and-alex/comment-page-1/#comment-4755 Tweets that mention Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and Alex « Infomotions Mini-Musings -- Topsy.com Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:43:40 +0000 http://infomotions.com/blog/?p=651#comment-4755 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Lori Schlinsky and Fred Carpenter, Allie K. Allie K said: Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and Alex « Infomotions Mini-Musings: I spent time last evening and this afternoon in… http://bit.ly/9tgfVO [...]

]]> By: Ed Summers http://infomotions.com/blog/2010/09/twitter-facebook-delicious-and-alex/comment-page-1/#comment-4753 Ed Summers Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:07:20 +0000 http://infomotions.com/blog/?p=651#comment-4753 I’m not exactly a huge fan of Facebook for some reason, but I am a fan of how they implemented their “Like This” functionality using the Open Graph Protocol. Basically you embed some metadata (imagine that!) in your HTML page, describing what your page is about (they have a property for book). And then you can use their JavaScript SDK (which is up on GitHub with an Apache 2.0 license) to add the button to your page (if you don’t want to use the iframe).

If you do go about trying to integrate Alex with Facebook using Open Graph Protocol definitely check out their URL Linter, which lets you see how they are extracting information from your page…which is very useful indeed. Open Graph Protocol is actually using RDFa for the metadata embedding pattern, which is neat. The use of RDFa plus their opening up the code kinda makes me want to use Facebook more :-)

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