How can we generate a link that can be clicked on by 5 different people on a Social Network game, so that each of the five people can get a bonus? The link will be published as a "newsfeed" on the Social Network such as Facebook. The link shouldn't be easily "generated" by any people as a cheating method. Also, what database table(s) ...
I have to create a bunch of these "Share this on" Technorati, Digg, Facebook, Reddit, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, MySpace and so on. It is very easy to find online icons for this task, but it is a little more difficult to find what URLs I should link. Is there any updated list of all these services? Of course I could copy them from other ...
Hey there, I'm looking for an sdk that can be integrated into native iphone apps to add social networking sharing functionality. I'm familiar with AddThis, but it doesn't look like they have anything specifically built for the iphone. Any ideas? Thanks, ward ...
I am looking for a service that can tell me if a given name is Male or Female. I have a list of names (possibly geo-tagged) and I want to filter out the Males/Females out of them. Any thoughts? ...
I retrieve a JSON list of contacts from a social network site. It contains firstname, lastname, displayname, data1, data2, etc... What is the efficient way to quickly lookup my local phone contacts database and "match" them based on their name. Since there are firstname, lastname and displayname this can vary. What do you think, how can...
I'm developing a social networking web application using PHP. Users in my website will be having a facility to display their Twitter feeds, Flick images and Facebook status updates in their profile page. To do that, I have to write separate scripts for each social network service from the scratch. Instead of doing that, is there any thi...
And how long would it take to complete (minus the graphics polishing)? Please assume it's being built in PHP. (Any compelling reason not to go with PHP?) Many thanks, in advance! ...
We want to add a comments/reviews feature to our website's plugin gallery, so users can vote up/down a particular plugin and leave an optional short comment about what they liked or didn't like about it. I'm looking for inspiration, ideally a good implementation elsewhere on the web which isn't annoying to end users, isn't impossibly c...
I have an application where users can: Write reviews about products Add comments to products Up / Down vote reviews Up / Down vote comments Every Up/Down vote is recorded in a db table. What i want to do now is to create a ranking of the most active users in the last 4 weeks. Of course good reviews should be weighted more than good ...
In the context of social networks, what is a good measure of strength of a link between two nodes? I am currently thinking that the following should give me what I want: For two nodes A and B: Strength(A,B) = (neighbors(A) intersection neighbors(B))/neighbors(A) where neighbors(X) gives the total number of nodes directly connected to X...
I have a facebook page for the bussiness running and with 27 like users, i already created the like button in the original website, and the amount of users is differents, in the website we have just 13 like users, we tried in iframe and XFBML, and always the same, if we put just a / at the end of the address of the website we had just on...
Situation: I am currently designing a feed system for a social website whereby each user has a feed of their friends' activities. I have two possible methods how to generate the feeds and I would like to ask which is best in terms of ability to scale. Events from all users are collected in one central database table, event_log. Use...
Hi For the last few days I've been thinking how I can solve the following programming problem and find the ideal, flexible programming structure. (note: I'm using Flash as my platform technology but that shouldn't matter since I'm just looking for the ideal design pattern). Our Flash website has multiple situations in which it has to ...
I have a PHP / CodeIgniter site with basic social functionality which obviously includes an "Add friend" link. When clicking this link an AJAX call is made in the background, which adds the user associated with the link as a friend of the logged in user. Also the link transforms into "Remove friend" which does what it says on the tin, ju...
Hello, To short version of this question is that I want to accomplish something along the lines of what's visible on Flickr's homepage once you're logged in. It shows the three latest photos of each of your friends sorted by date but grouped by friend. Here's a longer explanation: For example I have 3 friends: John, George and Andrea. ...
what is an api, if a make a db and a social site in asp.net and c#, sql host it. how can i ask others to make applications for it? i mean how is that possible, i have the code, so API, is it a software? i want to make a site like facebook social networking site, but its proving to be very very difficult, Ajax java script and all that p...
A friend has his final year project: designing and implementation of social networking platform. Selection of topic was the easy part :-) Technology in use is: ASP.NET 2-3 framework SQL Server 2005 and if needed SQL Server 2008 C# Visual Studio 2008 ...
i understand the term used all over social networking sites is API, read a few googles, it seems to be completely independent very big topic to cover i have limited time as seem from my previous post, i was trying to make a social networking site using asp.net 3.0 and c#, and am successful at doing so. its a small prototype. a few ta...
I am looking at some pointers on how to design a wrapper for these social networking sites. Ideally what I want to do is create a black box where I am able to create an interface for other libraries to call certain functions to interact with these social networking sites. I am planning on using oAuth for most of these sites, I already ...
Hi I want to include in my asp .net website ( c# ) a function to import contacts and friends from my social networks and email providers. I would prefer if I don't have to choose the option of redirecting to each social network. I would rather have an API which can provide me the functionality of giving the credentials and return my con...