I'm searching for the best way to automatically organize all user generated content in a social network. I'm building a site in ruby based upon lovdbyless' framework. the site is a place for men to share specialised knowledge. I've looked into wikis,forums, blogs by need a platform/organizational structure that will allow user generated...
So with ruby being ushered in as the new programming messiah, I'm wondering if anyone has preferences based upon ease of use, resources needed to run, usability and ease of customization. is there a better of the two? ...
I come from a small city and university where few students seem to share my interest in programming. Although the internet has provided me with endless knowledge and technical support, it is not as effective as actually knowing real people when it comes to things like finding a job. My question is what do you do to expand your network? ...
The company where I work for (1800+ Employees) is looking to enhance the personal relationships between its employees, allow a better collaboration and communication between departments and make it easier for the HR department to identify skills, experience and interests among the personnel (ex: we have some colleagues with deep knowledg...
I am working on a social network, and I am doing it with php and mysql, I need to know how to make users have customizable profiles... Like editing status, ect... Also making it so only friends can veiw their profile.. Also how do I add a user's page/directory to the website directory(example: domainname.com/someonesprofile) Thank ...
I am working on a social network type site in PHP, I have done this once before and the site outgrew my coding ability to keep up, this was a couple years back and now I am wanting to tackle this project again. Basicly on my network there is a friend_friend mysql table that keeps track of who is who's friend, for every confirmed friend,...
I have a social network similar to myspace but I use PHP and mysql, I have been looking for the best way to show users bulletins posted only fronm themself and from users they are confirmed friends with. This involves 3 tables friend_friend = this table stores records for who is who's friend friend_bulletins = this stores the bulletins...
I want to make an app that gets your friends profile pics from say your facebook,myspace or twitter account and makes an image out all of them. I already know how to use these social networks' APIs to get the image url, the question is, how do I "stitch" them together. If you know how to do this using a specific class in Zend or PEAR th...
I'm rather curious. Would it be possible to make something as complex as a basic social network (login etc) with Sinatra? ...
Hey, I'm looking for some open source, free to change and use project written on Pyton+Django with following features: Blog (for site, not for users) Users Registration User Profiles Adding friends, watching what friends added Award system for active users (carma, rating) Content rating Comments Probably different users levels (for a...
I have a requirement to graphically depict relationships between a set of objects as well as their types in a PHP application. The relatinships would be previously generated. I am only looking for a tool, preferably free, that will display the nodes and their relations. I am open to PHP or JavaScript or any thing that will work as long...
Where can i find resources that describes the strategies and patterns of design of social networks object models? For examples, how to implement relationships between users, how to implement the stream of notifications of user actions, how to filter that stream for each user, etc...? ...
I'm developing my own social network, and I haven't found on the web examples of implementation the stream of users' actions... For example, how to filter actions for each users? How to store the action events? Which data model and object model can I use for the actions stream and for the actions itselves? ...
I have an idea that involves social networking (note: it's not just a regular social networking site), and I'm wondering if I should use a social networking platform such as SocialEngine, Elgg, or some other, or get a developer and create a custom-build solution to meet my needs? ...
I recently botched a job interview by poorly answering a straightforward question: how do sites like LinkedIn efficiently show the relationship distance (1st/2nd/3rd) from you to every person displayed on a page (e.g. in people search results, list of people working in a company, etc.)? <EDIT> I got the essential "trick" of the solution...
I have a network loaded into an igraph object G that has 198 vertices and 214 edges. If I run: eig<-evcent(G)$vector The resulting eig is a vector with 2172 elements, rather than 198 elements. The documentation on the package claims it returns the "centralities of positions v." Any ideas on how to get the eigenvalue centralities f...
A few years back I used UCINET for some social network analysis. Theese days I'd like to use SNA again - but this time I prefer a unified analysis framework - which for me is R. I have looked at the sna and statnet documentation but am a bit overwhelmed. What I'd like to do: First: Load an bipartite/incidence matrix pulled directly fro...
I have data in the below form, which makes up a bipartite network. A1 - B1 A2 - B2 A2 - B1 A3 - B1 A4 - B2 A5 - B3 A6 - B3 A7 - B3 A7 - B3 A8 - B4 A9 - B3 What I would like to do is write something (ideally in python or C) or use an existing library to identify individual communities within the data. For instance A1,A2,A3,A4 are all ...
I need to find and algorithm to find the best matches in a social network. The system is a college student social network, and basically the main idea is to find a study partner for a class. The idea it's to suggest to the user what are the potential best partners based on different criteria, such as common class, GPA, rating, common sch...
I have a small existing PHP site that I would like to integrate with a social network software. Essentially, adding my 3-4 pages inside an existing social networking site for functionality such as user management, groups, and friending. I have looked at Dolphin, Pligg, and Elgg but am struggling to find something that I can integrate w...