social-networking

creating a database for a photo gallery with comments

I am creating a social network and want to have a similar photo gallery to that of facebook. Im guessing I need to use AJAX but I would like to have a comments section for each photo. I was just wondering what the best way would be to design a database around this. Do I just make a table of comments? Would I run into performance issu...

PHP: Facebook / Twitter Integration

Hi, I have a CMS built in php and I'm looking to add Social Networking integration to it. I basicaly want to pre-populate the comments and contact us forms with the Facebook/Twitter information of the visitor if it's available. Is there something reliable already built and tested or should I start from scratch? Thanks. ...

Hosted social networking platform with rich API?

I'm looking for a hosted social networking platform which provides an API for: user and group management (create/delete accounts, edit group membership) single sign-on and event notification (pull/push messages) So far I've looked at Ning (no user management or SSO) and SocialGO (seems to do all I need, but the documentation is fr...

Ning like open source alternatives

Hi people, I have to make something like Ning ( a website where users can create their own sites/networks) . Another example would be webs.com Are there any Open Source alternatives (PHP only) to these ? ...

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 network visualization tools for PHP/JavaScript

I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to display visualizations of social networks dynamically online. There are a lot of great visualization examples out there already: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php http://socialmediatrader.com/10-amazing-visualizations-of-social-networks/ I know lots ...

any PHP open source image sharing project ?

I need to make image sharing website .Like flickr picasa etc.. is there any open source available for it ? ...

read Twitter cookies?

Is it possible to check (using PHP or Javascript) if a user is logged into his/her account? I need the name, email and photo. ...

Facebook Oauth 2.0 and rate limiting

Hello, I am trying to extract Facebook ids from a list of emails using the url: let url = "https://graph.facebook.com/search? q="+email.Replace("@","%40")+"&type=user&access_token=" + facebook.Token After around 600 id extracts I get the error "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.". Is the facebook API/Search ...

How do I re-route network traffic using Python?

Small apps like Freedom and Anti-social have created quite a stir lately. They cut you off from the internet either entirely or just block social networking sites in order to discourage procrastination and help you exert self control when you really want to get some work done. I looked at the available options and also at some Google Ch...

How do you make a social network badge?

You see them everywhere. Like the twitter and facebook buttons that show up on blogs and websites that display a number of "tweets" or "likes". All I need to be able to do is display a number from my MySQL database based on two variables (username and an ID). It would probably be useful to encrypt the variables somehow so that users can'...

Sharing to social pages with django

In my django application I have different content across the site. Now I would like to add "Share this to... (Facebook,Twitter,Buzz)" link on each page. But instead of redirecting to a social app page I would like to open popup with (if needed) logging/adding possibility. How to get started ? What steps/operations I need to perform and w...

Social Search Algorithms

The question is oriented towards a research that I have been conducting since 3 months. What are the social search engines available currently (if any)? What is the future of semantic + social(collective) intelligence collection/distribution engines? ...

Building a massively scalable and secure social network on top of Eureka Streams?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Streams http://www.eurekastreams.org/ Eureka Streams uses a shared nothing architecture. It uses Memcached, Apache Maven, PostgreSQL and Hibernate. It uses Shindig for OpenSocial. It makes use of Java Message Service (JMS), Java Persistence API (JPA), Lucene and Google Web Toolkit (GWT). It ma...

Selecting all users within n-th degree of connection

Hi, The table consists of columns user1, user2, connectionStrength and the example records are the following: A,B,0.2 A,C,0.5 A,G,0.1 B,C,0.8 W,Q,0.4 G,Q,0.5 I would like to retrieve all users within the defined degree of connection for the selected user and then draw a graph of connections. The question however is how to select all ...

Social networking site: anonymous first, claim later

One of the great features of StackOverflow is that you can ask a question or answer a question without signing up, then claim your activity later. It's perfect because you engage people right away without any barriers to entry. Are there any Social Networking frameworks out there in any language with any data backend (relational or non...

How can I retrieve address book contacts using the Zend Framework?

Hi, I want to add contact fetch (gmail,AOL,hotmail,yahoo) script in my social networking site using zend-framework. Any one can tell me how to do this ? ...

Server push in php

Hi there, In an app, I am looking forward to implement server push functionality. I have gathered some information about the technology also, but I am little confused that with which language should I prefer for and what else requirement needed(note: this is going to be a social n/w app)? I have just finished a project based on php / ...

myapp.com/@username url in rails routes

Hi I have a simple rails question that I am simply unable to figure out. like the title says, I want to get my users controller show page to have the myapp.com/@username url but I don't know how to do this. My knowledge of routes must be fundamentally flawed. my links now usually look like this: <%= link_to "#{@user.username}", :contro...

How to sample a scale-free graph

Given a large scale-free graph (a social network graph), what's the best way to sample it such that the sample retains an acceptable abstraction of the properties of the original? I have a large graph (Munmun's twitter dataset, if you know it). But I need a connected sample of that graph with a reasonably large diameter (tl;dr... reason...