On 31st May Facebook had announced few changes in open graph approval process and also Updated Open Graph Publishing Guidelines in which some important parts were:
Additional publishing guideline
For stories about watching a video or reading an article, you must use the built-in watch and read actions. We’ll no longer approve custom actions for these stories.90-day update window
- Even if we’ve approved your custom action for reading an article or watching a video, you must migrate to using a built-in action, resubmit your app and get approved. Please review the requirements for working with read and watch actions.
- Built-in watch and read actions can only be published after someone engages with the content for 10 or more seconds. If a video is shorter than 10 seconds, the viewer must watch the entire video.
- Tagging people and places:
- Only encourage people to tag friends when they have actually performed an action together.
- Only encourage people to tag a location if they are currently at that place
So according to guidelines above developers have to use built-in actions instead of custom read and watch actions and also to post action only when user engages with the content for 10 or more seconds, to meet these requirements I thought I should write an updated tutorial on it because in my earlier tutorial on How to publish actions on timeline we had used custom actions to post on users timeline.
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In my earlier tutorial on How to publish actions on timeline i showed you how to get access token manually in step 3, but the problem with this method is that the access token will expire after every two hours and you have to copy the token again and again.
To solve this problem i found this tutorial in Facebook developers blog which handles the following issues in which access token become invalid or expired.
Note: By default open graph settings access token is not necessary for publishing on users timeline if the action is for the same page from where it is triggered otherwise its necessary to have access token for publishing.
It’s been awhile since Facebook launched its new messaging system with the option to get username@facebook.com email address. If you have already claimed your Facebook email address then you can forward all your incoming emails automatically from Gmail to your Facebook inbox.
Why to forward emails to Facebook
The benefit of forwarding you all emails to Facebook automatically is you don’t have to go to every email account to check for new emails and secondly you will be notified when you will receive a message in your inbox.
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How to forward emails automatically to Facebook inbox
In September 2011 Facebook introduced the subscribe button to allow people subscribe to your public updates without being your friend. If you have already allowed people to subscribe to your public and want to increase your subscriber base then this is right place for you.
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In this post I will share some very useful links for those people who have just started using the blogger so that they can find answers to some of their basic questions easily.
How to generate Meta tags automatically for each blogger post
Although Meta tags are not that much compulsory as they were before but still they effect how the search results are shown. In blogger you have to manually add Meta tags in template, but adding separate meta tags in each post is nearly impossible if you have hundreds of posts.
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Youtube in its official blog has introduced a new feature called youtube slam.
So what is Youtube Slam?
According to its official blog
" Youtube slam is a video discovery experiment. Each week a new crop of videos battles head-to-head in Comedy, Cute, Music, Bizarre and Dance Slams, where your votes determine who wins the Slam and gets featured on the leaderboard"
This is my second tutorial of Facebook application development with Open Graph series, in previous tutorial I showed you how to setup your Facebook application with Open Graph. Now in this tutorial I will teach you to how to publish actions on user’s timeline.
Note: Due to changes announced by Facebook on 31st May this tutorial has been updated you can visit the updated tutorial from here.
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If you have already created actions and objects by following my previous tutorial then the next setup is to publish those actions on user’s timeline, but before proceeding you can check my demo app.
