SOCIAL GRAPH THAT INCLUDES WEB PAGES OUTSIDE OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM

摘要

A social networking system includes a mechanism for incorporating nodes in the social graph, where the nodes are associated with a web page. Each web page includes one or more tags, which contain meta-information for defining the node in the social networking system, such as the type of the node. The social networking system retrieves the tags from the markup language document and stores their information in connection with the node for the web page. The web page may be outside of the social networking system's domain and may be operated by an entity other than the social networking operator; thus, third parties can define, create, and maintain nodes that are then used by the social networking system. Users may then interact with the nodes on websites outside of the social networking system, and these interactions are tracked by and reflected back within the social networking system.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
accessing information from one or more tags in a web page by a social networking system, the web page being associated with a domain that is different from a domain associated with the social networking system; creating a node in the social networking system, the created node defined at least in part based on the accessed information; receiving information describing an action related to the node performed by a user of the social networking system; and storing the information describing the user's action related to the node by the social networking system.