Joel Spolsky repeats over and over that today, knowing a bit of anthropology can be very useful for a programer because much of what's being created is social software. How can someone that already knows the computer science learn the anthropology needed to know how human beings works? Any books? Any recorded lectures? ...
Hi, I need to add an invite users functionality to my social networking application so users can invite contacts from their hotmail or yahoo accounts. How do I do this and are there any free open source libraries that do this? ...
This isnt actually a programming related query but again - I've set up a free social networking site on a small level. However I need to know what procedures do I need to follow to make sure that in a bad situation I can recover with minimal embarrasment. Everything like what conventions should I follow when I need to : Make updates t...
Before everyone groans and says: "What another one?" This is (initially at least) a private one with about 100 users very bespoked to our needs. Are there any existing application frameworks that can be used and easily reshaped into our requirements or if not, what's the best choice of tech for each tier? ...
Hi, I am looking to implement a 1 on 1 user to user web chat application for a new website in the works. Something similar to Omegle is the aim for the final product. Does anyone know of ready made solutions that are capable of this? Due to my experience, PHP is the language of choice. Omegle was written in Python using the twisted lib...
Hi, I'm building an application that gives users the option to send out an email notification to their friends. The options I would like to give them for this are to: manually write down which emails they would like to send to choose contacts from a list of ones already in the database for that user choose all contacts from facebook,...
I was brainstorming interesting usages of Twitter and came up with the following: An application can use it as a call home mechanism An application that has an invalid license could broadcast its location A software company could use it as a remote shell like interface and issue commands to shutdown, restart and to publish patches An a...
I'm interested in how you would approach implementing a BitTorrent-like social network. It might have a central server, but it must be able to run in a peer-to-peer manner, without communication to it: If a whole region's network is disconnected from the internet, it should be able to pass updates from users inside the region to each o...
I'm trying to implement a social networking style friendship model and I didnt have much much luck trying to figure out the plugins available out there. I think I'll learn Rails better if I do it myself. So here's what I have : class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :invitee_friendships , :foreign_key => :friend_id, ...
Is there a ready made solution to allow users to add comments to an image posted in SharePoint picture library or basically any item in a document library? What I need is allow user who are viewing an image from a picture library for example to add comment, view comments others have left and provide some sort of voting. Similar to what ...
Is there an open source solution for me to use if I would like to create a professional looking social network/forum where business can seek advice from other businesses? ...
Hello everyone, I have some social network development related question, not sure whether I can ask here. My quesiton is I want to develop some social network applications, but since I am new to social network, I want to get some easy to read/learn ppt file (I am not patient to read long documents. :-)) which describes the technical cha...
Hi! How would you model a friend - friendship relationship in Grails? Until now my User class had many followers class User { //Searchable plugin static searchable = true String userId String password boolean enabled = true // For Spring Security plugin's user registration. String email String userRealName boolean emailShow Date dat...
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We're looking to build a collaborative site for a targeted set of users (~100) based on SharePoint Services and we want to integrate social networking features such as tagging, activity streams and user profiles to encourage them to participate. This is a proof of concept and if it proves to be popular then we might consider using the t...
I have a data frame detailing edge weights among N nodes. Is there a package for working with this sort of data? For example, I would like to plot the following information as a network: p1 p2 counts 1 a b 100 2 a c 200 3 a d 100 4 b c 80 5 b d 90 6 b e 100 7 c d 100 8 c e 40 9 d e 60...
Hi, So what I'm looking for is something like a free version of 37signals Basecamp thats less project/todo based and more community based. I want somewhere people can collaborate. At the moment we use google docs/forms, a forum and IRC. Does anyone know of any such web applications that bring these features and perhaps other under one...
This may be a hairy question but. Say I have Followers: -user_id -follower_id Activities: -id -user_id -activity_type -node_id Pulling a users activity is fairly easy. But what is the best way to get a followers activity? A subselect? It seems like it is incredibly slow as users get more and more followers. Any ideas to speed this...
My question is how do you exclude certain networks from using facebook connect on your website. I mean if you want FB connect on your site, can you limit say only people with NYU.edu Emails or people in the NYU network? ...
Hi all, My idea is to connect to LinkedIn through the API and work on the public data. My area of concern is where to find Linkedin API and how to use it. I have search a lot but landed no where. Please help me in this regard. ...