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Which solution is better for Django social authentication?

django-socialregistration or django-SocialAuth? For my new project, I'm thinking of having signups only through Facebook (and possibly Twitter). Don't care about OpenID, hence this question doesn't answer my concern: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2123369/whats-the-best-solution-for-openid-with-django Both these apps seem appropria...

Memcached for Social Network Application

I asked this question over at ASP.NET... http://forums.asp.net/t/1584731.aspx ...but wanted to ask it here as well. I’m sure this problem has been solved before so I figured why reinvent the wheel… Short story, I’m building a web application with social features using memcached as a caching layer for the database. To simplify the prob...

What are the ways a facebook application can communicate with a user?

I am a graphic designer who is currently designing a facebook application. I wish to know the various ways that a facebook application can communicate with users of my application, and the limitations of those methods of communication. e.g wall posts, emails etc ...

Programming a Codeigniter Networking Site From Scratch

I have made a social networking site from scratch, but I am looking to develop a site much faster. Needs: 1. eCommerce 2. Profiles 3. Information "nodes" 4. Control over Ajax functions for all of this, maybe a simple API 5. Google Maps 6. Third party posting formats and content processing and display. User must be able to post nodes ...

Sites like Flowtown and Rapportive: How do they work?

Hi, Sites like flowtown and rapportive are getting more and more popular. Basically they take an email and return all the social media sites attached to it. Are they just grabbing the info through the API from each individual site (which seems time consuming setting it up for each one) or is there something else? Thanks ...

Which one is better for making a social networking website, Drupal or Codeigniter?

Hello i am going to develop a social networking(like facebook) website for a company for internal use only but i am confused between Drupal and codeigniter that which one i should use. so please suggest me that which one is better to make a robust and high quality social networking website in short time period. My website included...

Finding fellow open-source coders for various projects?

Hi all, Does some sort of online marketplace for open source projects/coders exist? I'm looking for a way to find partners before I actually start a project, instead of starting the project alone and letting it die when I find out nobody cares about it. ...

CakePhp or Elgg

I'm attempting to create a social network and i want it to be similar to how facebook is designed, but with many major changes to the interface and an entire new montezing system. Should I use elgg, CakePHP, or maybe something else(needs to be PHP)? ...

open social applications

I want to create opensocial apps using Ning platform but dont know where to start. how to save data in mysqlusing PHP, how to create profile apps etc. can somebody help please. ...

Crawling a social network in python

I would like to write a python script to crawl a social network website. The aim of the script should be to retrieve a piece of the social graph (friendships relationship). The website does not provide any API. The problem is: how can i crawl a website in python which pretends a login session to access the contact pages (for example, ...

How does a social network aggregator like Aol Lifestream Work?

Hey All, I've been messing around trying to create a social network aggregater for a while and I recently came across http://lifestream.aol.com/ and realized I'm going about it all wrong. For facebook, for example, I was using fql queries and the like to literally pull on a bunch of content and save it into my own databases etc; but th...

Social Media Icons on website

How to add Free Social Media Icons on a website? ...

Social/Open Log-In: Magento?

Its easy enough to install/configure something like ShareThis but what about the social "log-in" plug-ins that are increasingly popular? e.g. "sign in with"... Facebook Twitter OpenID My questions are this: Does the development of each of these three have to be done separately or can it essentially be replicated for each. If a us...

In layman's term: social APIs and their limits

I want to utilize Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Maps and Yelp in my own social web app (PHP/MySQL), specifically to tap into users' details and trends. How do I use those social APIs and what are the main limitations I need to worry about? ...

Social-networks sharing links in RSS

Does anyone know how to add social-networks sharing links to an RSS feed, similar to how CNN does here? BTW I work with PHP code. link text ...

Social networking sites using ASP.NET or PHP

I am familiar with both ASP.NET and PHP and now want to develop a social networking website. Before start development, I have been browsing some articles / forums and etc to find out which technology is suitable to develop and handle much traffic in future. Some people prefer PHP for the development. Is this only because of: open sou...

most popular social sites to link to? twitter, facebook, delicious, evernot? how to know?

I don't know if this could go on stack overflow, but I'm trying to figure out what the most popular social sites are, so that I can add only the most necessary, and not add 30 sites to the "share this" feature i'm adding to my website. My site is comprised of unique articles on history and science and stuff like that. How would I find t...