I'm planning on creating a social networking + MP3 lecture downloading / browsing / commenting / discovery website using Ruby on Rails. Partially for fun and also as a means to learn some Ruby on Rails. I'm looking for a social networking framework that I can use as a basis for my site. I don't want to re-invent the wheel. Searching th...
Does anyone know of a simple social network type of site that can be easily customised? It should suck, but in the sense the blosxom sucks in this article: http://www.plover.com/blog/oops/blosxom-sux.html I.e. take the "Worse-is-Better" approach, and try to cover most of the main features, more or less, while keeping the implementation...
Take any social website like digg or stackoverflow that lets users reward points for stories/questions/etc. somehow. What happens is quite similar to the process that lead to the rise of tabloid newspapers that feed only headlines and no content to its readers. Users are usually smart enough to figure out strategies to maximize their p...
Hi, I'm interested in hearing your opinions in which is the best way of implementing a social activity stream (Facebook is the most famous example). Problems/challenges involved are: Different types of activities (posting, commenting ..) Different types of objects (post, comment, photo ..) 1-n users involved in different roles ("User ...
I'm in the process of developing a social network site. And been thinking of scalability from day one of the project, I've fine tuned the site and queries to the best of my ability. However; Certain pages are very data heavy and I'm not quite sure if they are loading as fast as they could so I was thinking of implementing a distributed...
I don't really know who the players are in town, and I've been told that for the freedom I seem to need to enjoy my job I should try to find a smaller shop without all the "nickel and dime" time tracking bureaucracy. I've been here (Halifax, NS, Canada) for two years, but most of the software folks I know are people I work with or those...
I'm thinking of an application that would try to prove the "Six degrees of separation" theory with a set of users that are part of a social network. I would have those elements: A couple of users for which I'd like to prove the six degrees theory For each user, I know the list of friends in the social network Which is the best algor...
I'm new to developing applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Is it possible to communicate directly between 2 devices in the same room by using WiFi or perhaps even BlueTooth on the iPhone? I've seen a demo of a fire application where one iPhone "lights" other iPhone when they get close to each other. How is this accomplished? T...
I would like to create a private customized social networking for my company employees and partners so that they can collaborate, exchange messages, share experiences (events, book references, etc) and be grouped into communities. Does anybody know good Java framework for start developing this? I would be looking for something that wou...
If you had some social networking applications and you wanted your users to interact with them using a mobile device would you use WAP or a slimmed down version of your regular website with HTML? My train of thought is that WAP is dead or at least starting to bleed to death because of all the mobile web browsers available ( Iphone, Oper...
I run a social networking / blogging website ( http://www.obsidianportal.com ), and currently the users are identified by their unique (and unchangeable) username everywhere. Many have requested the ability to have a display name as well that they can choose. I'd like to support this, but I'm worried about spoofing and identity theft. ...
I'm trying to design a data model that denotes one user being the friend of another user. This is what i've come up with so far, but it seems clunky, is there a better solution? User ===== Id Name etc... UserFriend =========== UserId FriendId IsMutual IsBlocked ...
What is the preferred method of implementing the OpenSocial platform? I'm aware of Apache Shindig but can't really find any useful information on it. Also, is it possible to use an existing solution like the Rails-based lovdbyless and add OpenSocial features to it? ...
Although I'm a programmer looking to explore social software patterns, I'm also interested in their psychological and sociological origins. My proposed format is to limit each reply to ONE reading with a short summary of why it's important. The idea is that we will then be able to see which particular readings are most important. Sinc...
I'm a newbie programmer looking to start a niche social network. I'm looking for opinions on what you guys believe is the best language to create it in. It's a mixed media site with all the usual functions including: profiles user to user messaging new feeds individual user blogs user video/picture galleries I am not willing to use...
Is it possible to download and install Ning on one's own server? Also does anyone ning's license. My sense is that you cannot install Ning locally or on a test server. If that is the case does anyone know a good open source social networking platform? Thanks, ...
if can choose a platform to work with , when you build a new application would you prefer to build it from scratch or use platform like Community Server ? ...
I am looking for some examples of innovative uses of social networking for a purely commercial environment. I can see the uses that Twitter might have for micro blogging for anything (application event logs springs to mind amongst other ideas). Does anyone have any further examples or ideas they may want to share for ways that we can e...
As a fun project I wanted to build a social networking site for internal use inside our company. Most of the public networks are blocked by the proxy so i can't use the public api of facebook or other networking sites. I would like to hear from people who have built such sites before. Thanks Bharani ...
I am developing facebook application in fb:iframe. I do not want to use "feed_publishUserAction" as it requires a session key. Hence trying to use FB.Connect.showFeedDialog. Is it ok to use the latter? Can any one suggest example to use it as I am getting an error saying "Call to undefined function showfeeddialog()". Shud I update my li...