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Trying The New Facebook Timeline

Mike Shupp Music on Facebook
Facebook Timeline - Developer Release

I‘m trying out Facebook’s Developer Beta Release of the new Timeline feature, announced at yesterday’s F8 conference in San Francisco, very cool looking so far… I wonder if I can import RSS feeds?

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NASA – New Star Found Just 9 Light-Years Away

"Y Dwarf" Artist's Conception

“Finding brown dwarfs near our sun is like discovering there’s a hidden house on your block that you didn’t know about,” Cushing said.  “It’s thrilling to me to know we’ve got neighbors out there yet to be discovered. With WISE, we may even find a brown dwarf closer to us than our closest known star.” Scientists using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body.

The Y dwarfs are in our sun’s neighborhood, from approximately nine to 40 light-years away. The Y dwarf approximately nine light-years away, WISE 1541-2250, may become the seventh closest star system, bumping Ross 154 back to eighth. By comparison, the star closest to our solar system, Proxima Centauri, is about four light-years away…

NASA – NASA’S Wise Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars

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Upcoming Scorsese Documentary on George Harrison

George Harrison

HBO to air Scorsese’s new documentary in two parts, on Oct. 5th and 6th, can’t wait…

Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s GEORGE HARRISON: Living In The Material World

 

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Evolution of a Website

This site circa Oct. '96

Fun with the Internet Archive “Wayback Machine” — some screenshots of this website from ’96 to present.

Evolution of a Website

Internet Archive “Wayback Machine“

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A Faster Way to Message on Mobile

Facebook Messenger

I‘m trying out Facebook Messenger free iPhone app… “A whole new app — Messenger is a separate app, so it only takes one click to get to your messages or send a new one. Messages are delivered through notifications and texts, so your friends are more likely to get them right away. You can use Messenger to reach…”

A Faster Way to Message on Mobile

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Google+ Invite

Google+ says I have 150 invites to give out… if you’d like one please click here.

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More on Facebook Cache “Hell..

Facebook Developers URL Linter

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve experienced being infuriated trying to debug the Facebook cache and Share button “hell” while incorporating their share functionality into websites you’re developing, and have possibly read some of the help posted online from others…

The Facebook Developers URL Linter tool is key, for starters, to troubleshoot what’s going on with the Open Graph Protocol meta tags being generated (or lack thereof) and to break Facebook’s cache… but what had really been tripping me up was not being aware of the very specific thumbnail image requirements specified in their documentation:

  • og:image – An image URL which should represent your object within the graph. The image must be at least 50px by 50px and have a maximum aspect ratio of 3:1. We support PNG, JPEG and GIF formats. You may include multiple og:image tags to associate multiple images with your page.
    Open Graph protocol – Facebook Developers

Pay attention to those specs, and your thumbnail image display issues will be solved.  Also, if you’re a WordPress user there are a handful of plugins available for generating the OG meta tags… one I especially like is Open Graph Protocol in Posts and Pages by HitReach which allows you to specify exact OG tags per post or page as well as set site-wide defaults.