Lesson #23 - Building Social Networks

Where is the link?

I am probably one of those who are very excited for this lecture.
Forgive the multiple exclamations. I just can't wait to check this out.

I came across this overview of various DIY Social Networks

What all of these services have in common is that they provide a bundle of tools for creating a social network - complete with all the 'web 2.0' features you can think of, such as blogs, photo sharing, video sharing, RSS, tags, personal messaging, email, friends lists, discussions, privacy options, etc.

While it may be outside the scope of this lesson, it would interesting to see if/how you could use drupal as a framework to build something as easy to use/more powerful than these solutions.

Gus Austin
PepperAlley Productions

Hi,

How can I attend this lesson? Will any notes/article(s)/screencast(s)/recording(s) be published?

Thank you.

Good topic.

I would like to let a suggestion to next lesson or even this. (How social network can improve performance with Drupal cache system)

We could have a lesson about drupal cache system. It is very important. Dont have groups about this subject.

Regards

ohh man, i just joined the group, and this cast was probably the main reason i want to use drupal.
are you guys going to post the cast online? i'm not sure if anybody else was as unlucky as me and missed it but i'm sure others might want to see it a few more times. i hope the cast will be available!

Woohoo Buddies! Has great hooks and API.
http://drupal.org/project/buddylist

Social networks need friends! And pageviews!
http://drupal.org/project/invite

For making awesomely cool titles top o' your panels:
http://drupal.org/project/panels_titles

For auto-linking and freetagging of your CCK fields:
http://drupal.org/project/freetagger

Get your login under control.
http://drupal.org/project/logintoboggan

Necessary evil.
http://heine.familiedeelstra.com/mycaptcha-download

I forgot to mention in the lesson, but nicholasThompson made a module from an early version of my splendora_com module called:
http://drupal.org/project/user_profile_node_integrator

Oh and maybe keep your eye out for a new version of:
http://drupal.org/project/wizard
coming soon that will break up awfully long forms like my massive profile edit form into multiple steps.

I look forward to hearing your questions! Let me know if there's something I glossed over too much and you want details. Except the tabs. Don't ask ;-) Catch you on IRC.

Thanks for sharing the screencast and the links, I thought it was interesting that you used primarily cck for your user profiles (along with your custom module). Until I saw your screencast I had thought there were only two options to creating profiles (for non-programmers), profile in core and the nodeprofile package with usernode. I hadn't even thought of using logintobbagan to move users forward in registration. Nifty.

Looking forward to your next lesson. Awesome site!

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One question, I understand that in drupal 6 the user table will be open to views ( http://groups.drupal.org/node/5233 ). Do you think this will affect how you work with users in future versions of your site?

Hi,

Am I the only one not to get any audio with the screencast?

Thanks
Sean