TEMPLATE SELECTION FOR MAPPING A THIRD-PARTY WEB PAGE TO AN OBJECT IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM

摘要

A social networking system includes a mechanism for customizing display of content from an external web page. Nodes associated with a web page are included in the social graph based on one or more tags included in a web page, 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 while using the tags to identify a template that describes display of content from the web page. The template may include user interface elements for receiving input, allowing a user to interact with a node in the social graph associated with the web page, allowing user interactions with the web page content to be tracked by and reflected back within the social networking system.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
obtaining information of an external web page, the external web page hosted on a domain different than a domain of a social networking system; providing for display, by the social networking system, a different web page corresponding to the external web page; generating a node in a social graph maintained by the social networking system representing the different web page; receiving at least one user interaction through the different web page and performed by a user of the social networking system; and modifying the social graph by storing a connection between the node corresponding to the different web page and a node corresponding to the user of the social networking system.