I've started a little project about marketing research over social networks. Basically we need to gather information from public profiles and conduct some statistical analysis over this data. I want to know if the Facebook API lets you query information from the public profiles without them having to authorize your app. Is this feasible...
Hi, Where can I find someone who is experienced in Social Gold API Integration with a private social networking website (as opposed to Facebook or others)? My network in built on the NING.com platform. Hope that's not seen as a negative thing. I need to integrate Social Gold virtual currency but have no knowledge of API coding etc. I un...
I am currently gathering some technology requirements for a site that will be a social network based. I don't want to re-invent the wheel so i am looking for some type of SDK or collection of tools that can provide me with a way of creating/managing a social network. I understand that no framework will probably fit my exact needs so I ...
I looked through the existing questions of this kind but didn't find what I was looking for so here goes. I need an open source framework where people can... Create user accounts Invite friends Have a friends list Write messages to each other (some kind of inbox system) Create posts on a standard message forum Facebook login (Added, I ...
I am in the middle of building a new app which will have very similar features to Facebook and although obviously it wont ever have to deal with the likes of 400,000,000 million users it will still be used by a substantial user base and most of them will demand it run very very quickly. I have extensive experience with MySQL but a socia...
Not sure if this question belongs on SO. Anyway, please let me try to clarify the issue. I'm currently planning a social program. It's basically a chat server with the major additional ability to play games. I'd like to create categories of features that are offered to users. My question is, are there any useful standard feature categor...
I have been working on social application development for some time now. I now need to build an application which makes use of friend of friends data. Any info like friend count, interest, location etc. would be helpful. Here's the list I have till now 1) Networks where you can find info about your friend of friends Twitter,Digg, Flic...
I want to build a social network, with some of the users being able to put up some stuff up for sale. So basically, a social network + multiple sellers e-commerce. What is the best technology solution for that? I was thinking of going Rails route, using CommunityEngine and ActiveMerchant. Another option is going PHP and using something...
Hi, I'm trying to make some "social share" buttons at my site, but the urls I generate just don't get decoded by this services. One example, for twitter: private function twitter(e:Event):void { var message:String = "Message with special chars âõáà"; var url:String = "http://www.twitter.com/home?status="; var link:URLRequest = n...
Hi, I've been developing application for Iphone and now I want to try to create appplication like social bookmarking but I didn't really find any help on the net. I will have a create a login/pass, retrieve data and display them. So I want to know what do I have to use to implement all of that for any social bookmarking website. If yo...
Can you advise some literature about structure of social networks? I am interested in building databases of social networks. Sorry for bad English. ...
Hi all I'm interested in the problem of patterning mining among players of social networking games. For example detecting cheaters of a game, given a company's user database. So far I have been following the usual recipe for a data mining project: construct a data warehouse that aggregates significant information select a classifier...
I created a gadget which is able to post activities: function postActivity(text) { var params = {}; params[opensocial.Activity.Field.TITLE] = text; var activity = opensocial.newActivity(params); opensocial.requestCreateActivity(activity, opensocial.CreateActivityPriority.HIGH); }; And I request activities by doing...
Hello, I am planning to implement a basic recommendation system that uses Facebook Connect or similar social networking site API's to connect a user's profile, do an analysis based on tags and use the results to generate item recommendations on my e-commerce site (works similar to Amazon). I do believe I need to divide parts into such:...
I have written a small .net Windows Forms application. And now I decided to get opinions or comments from users. User will just write something in a input form and click a send button. I want to use the most easiest way. I don't want to host any webservices or another applications for gathering the information. Also I don't have a data...
Hello all, I am interested in people's thoughts on Facebook's new social widgets thing. Most notably the new "Like" button. The concept I am struggling with is the difference between "Like" and "Share". I have an existing Connect application. This application has its own fan page on Facebook. People can become "Fans" of the page an...
Hi I have a social networking site I want a generic recommendation engine that can work with any feature. Like I can add it for pic, video or application. Pls suggest........... ...
Hi, I would like to implement the new Facebook Like button on my website. However, I don't want to gather likes for www.phpbb.co.il, as we already have a fan page with some people who like us there. Tried giving Facebook the full fan page URL, http://www.facebook.com/pages/phpBBcoil/274962528979 and some other versions of it, to no avai...
Should I pick up IRC or go another route? What I need are public chat and private instant messaging on my social network. I do not wish to use 3rd-party solutions. (I plan to rent VPS for the matter.) ...
Social networking is great, but there is something fundamentally wrong with the way social networking is implemented today in most popular services. I'll put it in this example: Imagine that there is no SMTP, and consequently, it is globally assumed and accepted that you can only send email to addresses on the same domain. The result wou...