Personalizing A Web Page Outside Of A Social Networking System With Recommendations for Content From The Social Networking System

A method comprising:

• requesting a web page from a web server, wherein the web page is within a domain of a third-party website that is different from a domain of a social networking system;
• receiving at a user device a markup language document for the requested web page;
• requesting information from the social networking system for presentation within the requested web page;
• providing to the social networking system an identification of a user associated with the user device;
• receiving the requested information from the social networking system, wherein the requested information received from the social networking system comprises information associated with a set of recommended web pages for the user selected at least in part on one or more actions performed by one or more other users with whom the user has established a connection in the social networking system;
• rendering the web page and the content based on the obtained information within the web page;
• and
• displaying the rendered web page.

A method comprising:

• receiving at a server of a social networking system a request for information based on an instruction in a markup language document, wherein the request for information is responsive to a request for a web page of a third-party website that is within a domain of a third-party website that is different from a domain of the social networking system;
• identifying a user associated with the request;
• determining the requested information based on social information associated with the user, wherein the requested information comprises information associated with a set of recommended web pages for the user selected at least in part on one or more actions performed by one or more other users with whom the user has established a connection in the social networking system;
• and
• sending the set of recommended web pages for rendering as content displayed within the web page.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon:

• content from a third-party website, the third party web site different from a domain of a social networking system;
• instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
• request information from the social networking system;
• provide to the social networking system an identification of a user associated with a user device including the processor;
• receive the requested information from the social networking system, wherein the requested information received from the social networking system comprises information associated with a set of recommended web pages for the user selected at least in part on one or more actions performed by one or more other users with whom the user has established a connection in the social networking system;
• render a web page including the content from the domain of a third-party website that is different from a domain of the social networking system and also including content rendered from the requested information received from the social networking system, and
• display the rendered web page on the user device.