I've notice that when you share a soundcloud link in facebook, and users click play on it,
it won't open a new window, instead it will expand the widget inside facebook feed and reveal a full player allowing the user to listen to the music without leaving facebook. The entire widget is acutally an iframe.
Kind of like what happens when playing videos, but with a custom player.
How can I do it for my own site that streams music?
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Is it possible to place an picture in the FB timeline and when click on it, a popup window with an iframe or lighbox appears?
I want place an interactive video in the Timeline. Visitors must click on the picture without leaving the Facebook page.
No, you can't inject popups/Lightboxes into the Facebook Newsfeed.
You can try use swf, and their character of custom video players, to get some interactivity. But in general, people don't really enjoy that experience.
Iv'e noticed that if you share a sound cloud track to the new Facebook feed, onece you click the play button, the player is embedded inside of an iframe and not a flash movie.
Is that a new feature, or is that custom made for SoundCloud?
I cannot see it mentioned in the docs https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/feed-gaming
I have a website where there are multiple videos on a single page and like to add a button to share each video separately onto Facebook wall and be capable of playing each video inside the Facebook timeline.
I understand if there was only one video to share on the page, it is as easy as adding Open Graph tags to the head of the page to make this happen. But this will obviously not work for me since there are multiple videos on the page with share to facebook buttons on each video.
Does anyone know how I can go about making this happen?
Its simple put the Facebook/Twitter/Google/etc buttons onto a separate page and use an iframe to put it on the main page. You can use php to automatically create the "share" pages.
I did it for a site I'm making you can see it here - http://www.lftv.com.br/index.php
Exploring the obscur posts on this forum, I didn't found any convenient answer. I'm developping a player widget in HTML5 and I'd like to add a "share" functionality which would display, in the same way than soundcloud does for ex, in the user's status, the playable widget and not only a link. I would like it fully playable in the status update. Is it possible to publish an iframe in the status and not only a text/link... ?
So the story is this, I added a custom object to my app called Music Video and an action called Watch. I have all the needed meta tags in my pages to show the flash video, the linter reads them perfectly, it says that the type of share for my object is Video also.
If I post it using the like social plugin the flash video shows just fine but with my custom Watch action just shows the thumbnail and no play button, no nothing.
Do you know any example of apps using the new open graph api to embed video?
Facebook currently does not embed Flash video alongside stories generated from the build-in Watch action or on custom actions. Facebook will however embed the video if the URL is organically shared (copy and pasted into the Composer in Facebook) or liked via the Like button.
For now, this means a click on the watch news feed or ticker story will drive the user to your site, where you can authenticate them, play the video, and publish another watch action on their behalf.
I don't know when the changes took effect, but you can check it right here: