Monday, May 30, 2011

How to Embed Facebook Videos on Web Pages

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Facebook Videos allows Facebook users to upload and share videos with their friends, with the ability to tag friends in the videos and video messaging support. Unlike other video hosting services such as Youtube, MetaCafe and Dailymotion, Facebook Videos is not meant as general video hosting site, but rather a social networking site with photo and video support. As a result, embed code is not available generally. Only owners of videos have the rights to view the embed code which can be placed on website or blog for direct viewing on out-of-Facebook space.

There may be time where you may want to embed a video uploaded by someone else on Facebook on a site, blog or forum, especially for videos that are interesting or closely related to topic or subject on discussion. It’s possible to direct visitors to Facebook to view the video, but further annoyance is that whoever wants to view the video must login to Facebook, or sign up for one account if haven’t got one. Though extremely popular, not everybody wants to register for Facebook account or want to sign in to Facebook just to view a video.

Here’s simple trick on how to embed Facebook Videos on any web pages. Presented below is generic embed code on Facebook Videos, which can be used embed any video on Facebook to add the video for direct viewing on web page, blog or community forum, subject to privacy settings.

How to Embed Facebook Videos on Web Page

Firstly, check if the Embed this Video link is offered for the video. The link is located to the bottom right of video.



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