user-generated-content

What is the best way to organize user generated content in a social network?

I'm searching for the best way to automatically organize all user generated content in a social network. I'm building a site in ruby based upon lovdbyless' framework. the site is a place for men to share specialised knowledge. I've looked into wikis,forums, blogs by need a platform/organizational structure that will allow user generated...

Divs vs Tables for a user generated blog site.

Exact duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30251/tables-instead-of-divs http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135826/for-tabular-data-what-renders-faster-css-or-table http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073/why-not-use-tables-for-layout-in-html I have hired a programmer and a web designer to make a website similar to S...

Version Comparision of User Generated and Modified Content

I'm working on a project constructing an online collaboration tool. Looking at Wikipedia, I noticed that user-generated itterations of a page can easily be compared to each other; the comparison highlights the differences. Conceptually, what would I need to implement to do pretty much exactly the same? ...

How to automatically excerpt user generated content?

I run a website that allows users to write blog-post, I would really like to summarize the written content and use it to fill the <meta name="description".../>-tag for example. What methods can I employ to automatically summarize/describe the contents of user generated content? Are there any (preferably free) methods out there that have...

User (MS-Office) generated content - how?

How can I allow users to share Microsoft Office generated content on an ASP.NET site? For example usage, imagine a site similar to Stack Overflow. George, writing a question, uses Word, Excel or OneNote to create content, and then inserts the content into the question area (probably copying it into the clipboard and then using some "pa...

CMS for User-Generated Content?

I'm developing a user-generated content site. Note it's not a blogging system, forum, wiki or any of those shrink wrapped things. It'll have it's own specific forms and content niche, so I'd like the power to tweak everything basically. The method of authenicating users will likely be 3rd-party ie open id, facebook, twitter, etc. So ...

Are there any libraries or components that handle storage and fast retrieval of user-generated content?

Considering the case of having a large and active user base where each user wants to store a profile picture and some additional images or other artifacts, are there any libraries or frameworks that allow for easy storage and query of such data? A reference implementation would be Facebook's Haystack Photo Infrastructure. The following...

How do you authenticate user generated "apps" for your app?

I'm think something like Facebook apps here. User generated pieces of code that people can write to interact with my app. I understand how an authenticated API works, but this seems a little more complicated because not only does the APP have to authenticate itself (with a regular api-key) but the USER using the app has to be authentic...

What's the best regex for validating a field?

I use a regular expression to on a user-inputted field to make sure that they have entered between 1 and 20 characters. Here's the code: $post_validations = array("title" => '/^[[:alnum:][:punct:][:space:]]{1,100}$/'); But whenever a user enters a foreign character, or a special quote character from MS Word (I can't paste it into he...

What to do with ASCII escape characters in user-generated markup?

I'm using HTML Purifier, a PHP "filter that guards against XSS and ensures standards-compliant output," to sanitize/standardize user-inputted markup. This is an example of the user-inputted markup: <font face="'Times New Roman', Times">TEST</font> which generates: <span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times;">TEST<...

Do I need a EULA in my iPhone app?

I'm writing an application for the iPhone that lets users create 3D models which they can then upload to a website so that other people can rate and comment on them. Should I force the user to accept some type of EULA before allowing them to upload their content? I'm just thinking that I may be in trouble if some day I decide to stop t...

How should I order these "helpful" scores?

Under the user generated posts on my site, I have an Amazon-like rating system: Was this review helpful to you: Yes | No If there are votes, I display the results above that line like so: 5 of 8 people found this reply helpful. I would like to sort the posts based upon these rankings. If you were ranking from most helpful to ...