Open Graph Protocol: Enabling Web Pages as Rich Social Graph Objects
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Summary
The Open Graph protocol is a standard that enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, allowing web pages to have the same functionality as other objects on platforms like Facebook. It builds on existing technologies and schemas to provide a single, simple implementation for developers, with developer simplicity being a key goal. The protocol allows web pages to be richly represented within social graphs.
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While many different technologies and schemas exist and could be combined together, there isn't a single technology which provides enough information to richly represent any web page within the social graph.
The Open Graph protocol builds on these existing technologies and gives developers one thing to implement.
Developer simplicity is a key goal of the Open Graph protocol.
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.
