I have an issue with postings/comments on other users' wall/timeline not showing up. It's a user that I'm not friends with, but someone I know, who is not friend with this person either, is able to view postings/comments made on the Facebook page which makes me think this is not a question of that person's settings but my own settings perhaps.
If someone's wall is fully visible to everyone, I should be able to see the content on that page, right?
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I want to create a share button for Linkedin, the GUI button is all set up, but it doesn't work when clicking it. I researched a bit and came to the conclusion that using the same sharing mechanism, other sites work but mine doesn't.
I narrowed the problem down and now I'm trying to figure out why google.com works but my site doesn't. I don't use my real company website because it's personal information, but it's a website that has been on the internet for more than 10 years (in case this information is useful). When I go to the links, my website throws an error, but Google works fine.
Ⓧ https://www.linkedin.com/cws/share/?url=https://www.my-company-website.com
〇 https://www.linkedin.com/cws/share/?url=https://www.google.com
Is there any pre-requisite I'm missing, which makes my site not work?
I realized my server was blocking Linkedin (to reduce traffic from Linkedin bots). That's why it wasn't working.
As hint: I was working on closed webpage (for outside users) and that also causing problems with Linkedin share button.
Hint 2: Website uses Lets Encrypt! SSL and information mentioned here is a fake news https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linkedin-share-button-not-working-3/ Work's fine!
If you ever get stuck on trying to figure out why your page simply doesn't populate nice preview data on your LinkedIn share page, then check out the LinkedIn Post Inspector.
Insert the URL of your page (i.e., example.com), not the URL you are using to share (i.e., linkedin.com/share?url=example.com). You'll get detailed information on how your site will appear and why, like, for instance, sharing wikipedia.org...
Hope this helps someone else with a LinkedIn share issue!
I had seen a lot of captcha and recaptcha in websites.so, some one tell me is there any danger by repeatedly selecting wrong images in recaptcha.
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test. It is used to make sure the request is made by a real person and not by an automated script. It helps to check spam.
For example, in case of facebook after you have hit like for many posts continuously within a small time interval, it will ask to verify you are a real person by showing its captcha. If you fail to select the right image, you will be barred from liking anymore posts till you get the captcha right.
Similarly the danger of selecting the wrong captcha varies according to the websites. In most cases you would not be able to complete the process that you wanted to undertake in the website like signing up, make a new post or book a ticket etc.
For reasons on why people get captcha wrong check this out Why people get captcha wrong?
First off, I know this has been discussed over and over again. But let's take this as a "late 2012 edition" since things tend to change rapidly on the internet.
I have this web page which is a "classical" web page with full page refreshes. Every internal click produces new content. We can show AdSense ads this way without a problem.
Now I started looking into "ajaxifying" (PJAX) the whole page for performance reasons (I've actually made a prototype version and it works superbly). The whole thing works only on browsers that support history.pushState, and whenever a user clicks on a internal link a AJAX request is triggered that fetches only the content part of the page (everything between the header and footer) and replaces old content with it.
The end result is, that the user is presented with a brand new page (including the changed URL and what not) and only the mechanism for delivering the page has changed (full reload vs. AJAX). As far as google (and older browsers) is concerned this is still a regular page with regular links (progressive enhancement and all that).
And yet there isn't a way to display AdSense, what with the document.write's and AdSense's TOS ruining the party.
My question: is there a Google approved (I'm not interested in hacks that will get us banned) way to display AdSense ads on a page like this (and I haven't found it). Or if there isn't, does Google have any plans on supporting this in the future (again, I haven't found anything related to this).
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After some more digging around I came across Google DFP, which seems to support async loading of adds. But, I'm not sure I can load AdSense ads through it dynamically without breaking the TOS. I'm 100% sure I can load other ads this way, but not for AdSense. Could somebody clear this up for me?
According to this page loading Adsense ads through DFP you are subject to the both the DFP and Adsense terms. So I guess if you are following the current Adsense terms you are not allowed to do what you are talking about... at the same time Google provides a rather easy method to do exactly what you want to do with DFP...
Its still a grey area...
I was wondering if you guys can help me out. Im making a website for an authorized Dish dealer. Ive been trying to retrieve the flash animation on dish.com. I was able to get it through firefox with 'Page Info' but all I get is a black rectangle without no animation. Its a .swf, any help is appreciated.
There are a couple of possible issues there.
There's a chance that the movie is loading something from that domain, which will not get loaded when the container movie is loaded in another domain due to cross-domain policy issues (and security sandbox restrictions).
Also, in its code the developer might have made it to check the URL and restricted some actions accordingly.
Another possibility is, it might be using some data that it gathers from the page source, or a server-side script which you might not be providing it.
These are the most likely possibilities I can think of, but if I get a chance to think more I'm sure I can come up with many others.
Now, I see many apps that will say "started using [Name of App] "Is that simply a call to StreamPublish or is there a new function call to achieve this?
I am currently using facebook to allow people to log in with their facebook accounts similar to turntable.fm and then going to my webpage. How do I make it so that other friends can see that they started to use the application, I have not been able to find this anywhere.
There is a setting on your application for "social discovery". Enable it and those posts will show up.
sorry, this is not an answer but clarification of the questions and answers (I don't seem to have enough points to be able to comment)
Firstly I'd like to say that if you are developing a Facebook app this would seem to be a very important question as it would have a huge impact on the virality of your app. It would mean that every single registered user is potentially advertising your app to each of their friends. Without out this happening your only options for viral spread through facebook are:
asking for 'publish_stream' permission and using the 'Post to wall' API call. Asking for this may deter many users from using your app in the first place.
User initiated sharing (like button, post to wall). Unless your app was amazingly awesome you'd be lucky to get a 5% rate with this (as opposed to the 100% rate you'd get with the mysterious 'started using' feed post)
I created a fake account for testing, created a facebook app (as a webpage, not as a facebook app/iframe), made sure social discovery was enabled, but I could not see any activity on my ticker or my feed. However, I did learn that there is a thing called the 'canvas ticker' which is completely separate from the 'main' ticker and can be seen when you use any facebook iframed-app. A notice did appear in the 'canvas ticker' but it said 'a is using b' not 'a started using b'. Getting a message on the 'canvas ticker' is not nearly as significant as getting a 'main ticker' or news feed post as relatively few people use 'facebook iframe apps'. I thought that this is what I must have remembered seeing (not seeing 'started using' in my news feed or main ticker), so I gave up worrying about it.
However, recently I started using Graph API Explorer http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/ and a 'started using' post appeared in my alter-ego's news feed. That is exactly what I remember seeing with other apps ('started using' rather than 'is using') but it seems to be quite a rare occurance. I'm not sure if anything appeared in my alter-ego's main ticker.
Now I am really confused. This feels alot like figuring out how google's pagerank algorithm works.
update:
this link has proved quite useful: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/410
I think 'started playing' only applies if you app is set to having the 'games' category. Apparently these 'started playing' stories only show on the newsfeeds of people who have already started playing the game. So they can't really be of much use to gaining new users (as only user who are already using the app see it). However, the blog post states,
"By showing fewer but more impactful News Feed stories based on
friends’ activity and social context, we hope to drive new user growth
for games. For example, instead of the typical story saying that
someone just bought a new item, it could say “Dave, Jonny and 3 other
friends” just started playing a game."
I am really confused by this. How can the 'started playing' story possibly 'drive new user growth' if they only appear to people who are already playing??
The 'x started using Graph API Explorer' seems to be a really odd one. I think because it's an app made by Facebook it has special priority and that's why it showed as a story in all of my friends's newsfeed. I've been installing a lot of non-game apps to see if the 'started using' story appears but I could not find one that did. I'm now not sure if I ever remember seeing a 'started using' story. I installed games such as Farmville and Sims Social and yes i did see a 'started playing' story on my alter ego's newsfeed.
Why is that incredibly hard to find blog post above not part of the official documentation? And why doesn't the blog post explain exactly how things work with good and thorough examples instead of being really vague. I think every app should have an equal chance for viral growth without having to spend hours conducting psuedo scientific experiments with fake user accounts just to figure out how things works because the documentation is poor. I'm sure players like Zynga have the resources to figure out facebook inside and out but this is getting really frustrating as a sole developer.
This is why I'm hoping for a day when the prominent social network's code is open source. Nothing beats being able to directly read the source code when documenation is poor. That is one of the great things about open source.
Hey this is a common question I hear from my clients whom I write FB apps for.
It's called the FB User Discovery Story and it's automatic. Facebook eventually enables it for applications. There's nothing you can do to make sure it's displayed and it's visibility is effected by the evoking users privacy settings as well as the receiving users settings.
Also, note that it does not require your application being in the app directory.
The new facebook application interface allows you toggle the feature on and off but it still relies on the users settings as well.