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domain names ending with book
I want to make a humorsite, not a social network, but a humorsite. But my domain name ends with book.
Do you think facebook would make a fuss about it?
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How can I specify the image for Facebook share or like?
Is there a way I can make one of the images on a website more likely to be posted with a Facebook like or recommend?
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Can someone explain how FaceBook's cookie tracks you while logged out?
This article claims that Facebook tracks what you do, even when you're logged off of Facebook, via cookies.
Now, a cookie is just a text file... that is read/written to while you're actually on that ...
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Implementing Facebook Like and Tweet Buttons into E-Mail
I am sending an email campaign out to subscribers and I would like to incorporate a Facebook Like and a Tweet Button into my email. Since I cannot use javascript inside emails I was wondering the best ...
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For progressing signed_request, should we pay for using SSL?
I would like to ask you a few questions about signed request. As you notice, we must take SSL certificate on 1st Oct. When I researched, we cannot get it as free.
I am wondering how you decied that ...
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Where has my LIKE button gone?
My LIKE button was working for quite some time. It did have an issue whereby it would not show up on the initial pageload, but it did show upon refresh. Weird, but not a deal breaker.
Now, the ...
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Please recommend some good hosting for Facebook App (free/paid) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I am learning to program facebook app and so I am looking for some free/trial/paid hosting
to host my php and db.
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Connect with Facebook button, Gowalla's style
I am searching for over an hour for a Connect with Facebook button that is similar to the one Gowalla is using (link)
Any help would be appreciated!
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Why Are My Facebook 'Likes' Disappearing?
If you look at my website, it shows only one Facebook Like, but while the page is loading it sometimes shows more; and I'm sure there are at least 20.
Any ideas?
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Facebook profile - app page or business page
I'm launching a web and desktop application soon where users can modify their photos.
So should I set up a Facebook app page or a business page for it?
( http://www.facebook.com/apps || ...
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PHP Library to accept logins from Facebook and Google?
I'm making a site and I want creating accounts / logging in to be very easy, so I want to support logins with Facebook Connect and Google Accounts. I know both offer APIs, but seems like a lot of ...
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How does Facebook saves images to my HDD
How Facebook downloads images, when you click "Download" near the picture? I see, that they are passing some argument:
_n.jpg?dl=1
,but how it is managed 'behind the scenes'?
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Creating a facebook page with your domain name
I want to create a facebook page that has my domain name like this :
http://www.facebook.com/TrimHold
But I can't find the way.
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks.
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Facebook applications - how to get to know page ID?
With Facebook API, within a custom app added to a fanpage, how do I recognize the fanpage ID?
Here's what I'm trying to achieve:
user goes to the full-width canvas app, he authorizes himself there ...
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Facebook: When a page clicks my 'like' buton, the count does not increase
I have a small Facebook problem.
I have created a page for my business and placed a 'like' button at the top.
When an individual clicks like the count increases but if another business page clicks ...
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Customize Facebook Like Box - Policy Infringement
I'm just about to finish up a web project, and so far I've got good social media integration into the site's theme (Youtube and Twitter)...except Facebook Like Box for a not-for-profit's Facebook ...
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Only one image available when sharing links on Facebook
When I try to share links from this URL on Facebook, I can only choose one image as the preview:
But when I try to share links from this URL, I can choose between five thumbnail previews:
Any ...
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How do I add a custom welcome tab to a Facebook fan page?
this is my first question on here so I do apologise in advance if I do something wrong. I'm a web designer, not a programmer (just for the record)!
I have to add a custom welcome tab to a Facebook ...
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widget / template code for +1, Like, Follow on Twitter etc
I am trying to setup a website for this design studio and need to put in a widget which would allow people to "Like, +1, follow on twitter" etc. I have been writing code for some years now, but I am ...
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Facebook like button in plain HTML, is it possible?
just a quick question, is it possible to create an FB Like button in plain HTML?
I checked out the Like button code dircetly cerated by developers.FB but it's an
<iframe ...
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Facebook Promotion guidelines
Hi I want to build a Facebook promotional/competition page and just want to make 100% sure that I am within the laws governed by the Facebook Promotional Guidelines.
Here is a link to the guidelines
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AddThis Counts vs Facebook Counts
Recently I changed Facebook Like buttons on several of my sites for AddThis counting buttons which include the Facebook count (or so I assume that is what the number in the box next to 'f like' is).
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facebook like button count
I just created a simple webpage where people can browse funny photos and share it with their friends.
But im having problems with the facebook like button. I have used the facebook like button before ...
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Is there serious reason why big company like Facebook or Google don't use front-end libraries such as jQuery? [closed]
I saw that Facebook like open-source software a lot. Is there some webmaster-specific reason why don't they use jQuery or another javascript library?
Is that because jQuery/another js library has a ...
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How to add RSS to a community page on Facebook?
I have a website with a RSS (fixed, I had written "CSS" instead) that I would like to post regularly to a Facebook community. Whereas there are lots of tutorials for doing that in a personal Facebook ...
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How to get a facebook page with URL like facebook.com/mycompany
I've seen other facebook 'company/brand/product' pages with URLs of the format: facebook.com/mycompany
How do you set this up?
If I use pages/create, I get an address like: ...
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Service to give access to download after Tweet / FB Like etc
I remember stumbling across a free service that you could integrate with your website that would give visitors access to a download (PDF/ebook/white paper etc) if you Tweeted/ Facebook Liked etc. but ...
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Facebook connect vs. OpenID
I just started working on a new project that has a general login feature. One suggestion in a meeting was to look into Facebook Connect or OpenID as an alternative. I'm curious if there's one that has ...
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Storing data on server [closed]
1.How am I supposed to store data on server, using not only: databases,text files and images?
And how someone could implement storing data in fb's graph api ...
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Facebook - “openID” danger?
I am scared that someone can get into anybodys account on my game, if user does not have Facebook. Stealer makes facebook with same email that user in my game, and then click "Login with facebook" -> ...
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How to tie together Facebook Pages and main website
I'm anonymising this situation a bit, so I apologise if the scenario seems a bit contrived, but the question is a genuine one I need to address.
I'm working on a website for a web-based company which ...
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Facebook Registration Plugin and Name Field
I am trying to use FaceBook Registration Plugin (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/registration/). It already has name field which I dont want to use instead i want to use my own First Name ...
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Tracking Facebook “Likes”
Beyond the count posted next to the button, is there anyway to see a list of users have completed a successful “like” action, but not as the owner of the "like" button/website; or for that matter any ...
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Number of Facebook Likes on homepage keeps resetting to lower number
We've had a Facebook Like button on our homepage (i.e. associated with a URL not our Facebook Page) for a few months, and nearly every other day the number of likes resets from the actual number of ...
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Allow user to share on Facebook anonymously: options?
I want to allow users to share memes anonymously with their friends.
I am trying to figure out how this can be done through Facebook: are there any Facebook APIs which will allow users to share ...
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What's A Good Option For Plug and Play FB page Customization?
I am looking for a good FB plug and play custom page service. Something like pagemodo, but a little more robust. Any suggestions? I don't mind if we have to pay for it.
Thanks.
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Delegating responsibilities for business page on Facebook
Suppose I have a Facebook page for a business or organization, and I want to delegate posting responsibilities to an employee. As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to give that employee ...
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how do I programmatically upload pictures to facebook?
Ok, so here was my first question:
How do I allow visitors on my site to share my photos on their facebook news feed?
After implementing it I realized what I really want is a link that uploads the ...
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Facebook Like button for sessions or entire conference?
I'm putting together an online conference program. The conference has hundreds of sessions.
When adding a Facebook Like button, I'm trying to decide:
Choice 1: All the Like buttons should like the ...
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DIY Social media buttons Vs. Ready built (e.g. AddThis)
Is there any benefit from rolling-your-own set of social media 'like' buttons rather than using a pre-packaged widget, such as that provided by AddThis? Are there any downsides from using out of the ...
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facebook share and opengraph
I'm managing a video blog.
The blog contains a main youtube video on the homepage and several thumbnail images of other videos elsewhere.
I have a share button for the main page and the single posts ...
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Linking a facebook app's page to an existing facebook business page
I have a facebook app page, and a separate facebook business profile page.
The business page was created, but not by me, some time before the app and its page were created. Is there any way to ...
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Misalignment of Facebook & Twitter buttons
Here's a minimal example of my problem. It contains two buttons, from twitter and from facebook.
What I'm observing in Firefox 3.5.15 is:
While the page is loading, the buttons are more or less ...
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Facebook social plugin comments disappear from my Drupal site after using Facebook application ID
Background to problem
I was using the Facebook comments social plugin without a Facebook application ID (on Drupal with Facebook social plugin module); it was working just fine like this.
I later ...
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Facebook open graph protocol: how can I reach the scattered audience of people who liked individual pages on my website?
If you add Open Graph Protocol metadata to your website that is different for every URL (so the url in
<meta property="og:url" content="http://yourwebsite.com/somepage.html">
is the url of ...
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Renouncing the registration system
I want to completely remove the registration page from my web app (for obvious simplification and uniformity) and only use "connect with Facebook" and "connect with Twitter" the website is a technical ...
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Facebook connect And Yahoo.. How and what exactly happened? Is there way to import facebook friend's email id?
I have seen that yahoo now enables their users to import facebook friend's email addresses into their yahoo addressbook. As far as i know, facebook doesn't allow any API to fetch email addresses of ...
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Are the famous websites handmade? [closed]
I'm a newbie in web designing. I always wanted to build a professional quality website by myself. So, I started learning HTML/XHTML and CSS for presentation; and, JavaScript and PHP/MySQL for ...
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Some Facebook Pages Show Tabs On The Top Of Page, And Others On The Left. Why?
I am developing a Facebook page for my web design/development business, and I've noticed that the page I have created has the tabs aligned to the left hand side of the page underneath the page image. ...
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What is the difference between a Facebook Group and a Facebook Page
I created a Project Management Stack Exchange Facebook Page to help promote the new Project Management Stack Exchange Site.
One of the users suggested a Facebook Group instead. I use Facebook, and ...
