Facebook Activity Feed images

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I am trying to figure out why my activity feed does not show the corresponding content image. It shows the FB placeholder thumb icon. I have asked the guys on the Omusic site: http://omusic.dstv.com/

They are not sure why some of the content in the activity feed is not showing the real album image. Do you guys know how to tell FB which image to display as the thumb?

Even the FB documentation http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/activity/ page has the place-holder image for some of the example content..
 
Do you have a link to your page?

and check you have the 'xmlns:fb' piece in your <html> tag: (check the omusic page)
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
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aah - I kinda misread that a little.
but it's close..
On the feed,I currently see "the sop girls" and linking to http://omusic.dstv.com/1687730/Artist/The_Soap_Girls
That has the 'placeholder image'

Then there's also 'Jesus is calling now' linking to http://omusic.dstv.com/10844101/Manuel_Escorcio/Album/Jesus_is_calling_now

both of those have the relevant facebook Meta tags in the page (view source).

but the tag for the soap girls references a generic logo as the og:image:
<meta property="og:title" content="The Soap Girls's album Xperience"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="artist"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://omusic.dstv.com/1687730/Artist/The_Soap_Girls"/>
<meta property="fb:admins" content="620401365"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Omusic"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.omusic.co.za/images/logo_oMusic.gif"/>
<meta name="description" content="Get Xperience by The Soap Girls on Omusic" /><meta name="keywords" content="Xperience The Soap Girls local music download safe buy" />
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Where the Jesus guy has his actual cover art:

<meta property="og:title" content="Manuel Escórcio's album Jesus is calling now" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://omusic.dstv.com/10844101/Manuel_Escorcio/Album/Jesus_is_calling_now" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="620401365" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Omusic" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://images.handy.de/fundb/article/8/1474/10844101.jpg" />
<meta name="description" content="Get Jesus is calling now by Manuel Escórcio on Omusic" /><meta name="keywords" content="Jesus is calling now Manuel Escórcio local music download safe buy" />
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The og:type is different too.
Try messing around with those if you can..
 
rward said:
aah - I kinda misread that a little.
but it's close..
On the feed,I currently see "the sop girls" and linking to http://omusic.dstv.com/1687730/Artist/The_Soap_Girls
That has the 'placeholder image'

Then there's also 'Jesus is calling now' linking to http://omusic.dstv.com/10844101/Manuel_Escorcio/Album/Jesus_is_calling_now

both of those have the relevant facebook Meta tags in the page (view source).

but the tag for the soap girls references a generic logo as the og:image:


Where the Jesus guy has his actual cover art:



The og:type is different too.
Try messing around with those if you can..
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Works like a charm! Many thanks rward. :D:D
 
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