This is an experiment to see if a video I recorded on Facebook can embed into WordPress and if it will be public!

OK, it didn’t work (see comment below). I can link out to the vid, i.e. http://www.facebook.com/v/157263331018 and this works in a nice Facebook-hosted full-screen. Not as good as embedding it though.

Also a mate suggested I put in the above address inside square brackets preceded by “youtube=” which displays a mysterious blank space where the vid ought to be, thus:

I’ve also just emailed the embed code to my Posterous and it worked straightaway: http://thoughtcat.posterous.com/attempting-to-get-facebook-video-embedded-in

FTR, the embed code Facebook gave me is:

<object width=”352″ height=”220″ ><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.facebook.com/v/157263331018″ /><embed src=”http://www.facebook.com/v/157263331018″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”352″ height=”220″></embed></object>

Blogger renders it thus:

<object height=”220″ width=”352″><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true”><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.facebook.com/v/157263331018″><embed src=”http://www.facebook.com/v/157263331018″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” height=”220″ width=”352″></embed></object>

– which looks exactly the same to me. WordPress just deletes the code altogether – it’s not even as if it leaves some in and takes some out.