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Magic Links

August 26, 2010 2:26 p.m.

The first time I used the new link attachment tool found on sites like Facebook, I thought I had experienced something magical.  After pasting an external webpage URL into my wall-post form, an image, page title, and page description of the linked webpage appeared beneath my post as though out of a puff of smoke from the Internet cloud.  I could cycle through a variety of thumbnails associated with the linked webpage and choose one, such as a logo or avatar, that represented the linked page appropriately.  The attached hyperlink was no longer simply a hyperlink - it was a rich ...

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Updated 08/26/10 @ 02:26PM CDT by jjasinski

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