Social Networking Sites

I have run into a wall. I think I have all the modules to do what I need, but haven't a clue how to go about doing it. Let me explain what I am trying to do:

I have a network for a camp which has 4 divisions. Each division is supposed to be private from one another. I have private Organic Groups to accomplish this, which works great. Example content which can be posted in the OGs are photo galleries, single images, polls, videos, group forums, etc.

Looking for a drupal guru who are well versed in module development in handling REST, XMLRPC calls to external api's. If you are familiar with facebook api, myspace api, or twitter api, it is a plus.

Work start in early July. Drupal version 6,

Where
DERI (Digital Enterprise Research Institute), NUIG, Galway, Ireland (http://www.deri.ie/)
DERI is a renowned Semantic Web research institute in Galway, on the west coast of Ireland.

When
The position is available immediately and are for a period of up to 4 months.

Project
The WAVE project is an EU funded project (http://www.wave-project.eu/).

Hello,

I have a website http://www.wcfree.com that has been created using Drupal 5. The site was created to basically test the market over the last two years. Now that I know there is demand for this type of social network/dating site I would like to take this site to the next level. Currently the site is on the first page on google, yahoo, and msn's search engines. In the last 5 months without spending a penny on marketing or advertising there has been over 18,878 visitors. (Based on adsense stats).

I sure love Drupal -- except for the forums, which are pretty weak when compared to Simple Machines Forum or PHPbb. Even with the Advanced Forums module -- which improves things quite a bit -- the forums still come up short.

I'm working on integrating SMF with my Drupal 5 site now, and will look for Drupal 6 solutions in the future, so I'm wondering if anyone has good experience integrating one of these (or another) third-party boards.

Thanks!

I've been trying to get my head around exactly how I can prepare my own web page design using an external style sheet and adapt it for or fit it to, say for example, a zen sub theme. I get the impression that the main concern is that one builds one's page to suit a 1. 2. 3 or even 4 column design with header and footer and then depending on one's basic theme one can add blocks for content within those column areas and designate which content goes in which block? Perhaps I just haven't messed around enough yet with the other themes.

Well obviously i'm posting this post for help here because the site i'm currently working on is a social networking site.
Now before you say it...no its not a myspace or facebook clone. I have a different idea just some aspects will be similar :)

My site will hopefully be more close to be assembled like myyearbook. Where everything is more interactive then just keeping in touch with friends. The whole "profiles, messages, and comments" idea will be sitting in the background.

so here is my issue,

Facebook Live Stream module leverages the Facebook Open Stream API. Once installed, the module allows users of the Drupal instance to access their Facebook account and view the real time stream of their friends’ updates from Facebook in a block within their Drupal instance. Users can control the number of posts viewable via the profile settings tab. The module allows user to configure his/her settings such as No. of posts to display, retrieval interval time, etc.
You can get further info here: http://fbconnect.azrisolutions.com/

Hello,

Please have a look at what we have so far.  

http://live.koots.ca/ , don't type www.... this will take you to a primitive version of the site we continue to host for the a couple resources.

Greetings!

Our team recently released a module leveraging the Facebook Open Stream API. Once installed, the module allows users of the Drupal instance to access their Facebook account and view the real time stream of their friends’ updates from Facebook in a block within their Drupal instance. Users can control the number of posts viewable via the profile settings tab.

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We've just released Facebook Live Stream module. This module leverages the Facebook Open Stream API. Once installed, the module allows users of the Drupal instance to access their Facebook account and view the real time stream of their friends’ updates from Facebook in a block within their Drupal instance.

For more information please check http://www.azrisolutions.com/journal . Looking for feedback

I am brand new to drupal, and am trying to use it to build a social networking site (of course, that is why I am posting here). Although new, I have tried to research this question/idea but have not found a whole lot. Good chance I have blatantly overlooked some resource, and if that is the case, I apologize (but please point me to the resource). Here is what I would like to do:

Help move Drupal a crucial step closer to being a true Geospatial CMS!

The Drupal community and the Twin Cities Drupal Group invites us all for Geo June, a month-long series of events and collaborative projects. There will be coding, documenting and demonstrating solutions for data collection and mapping.

You can join in the fun by helping the issue queue for Geo and related modules, or by participating in other ways:

Estoy creando una tema con user-profile.tpl.php y no puedo entender como hacer acentos correctamente en este pagina. Puede ayduarme? (O indicarme a donde puedo encontrar mas informacion?) Muchas gracias!

I'm creating my own theme via user-profile.tpl.php and I can't figure out how to get accents to show up correctly on that page. Can you help me? (Or point me to somewhere with more information?) Thanks!

Plings is a UK government backed initiative - Places to go , things to do - to encourage young people to get involved in local activities.

The purpose of the plings Drupal group is to show how Drupal can use the Plings API to showcase events in the UK in a variety of innovative ways...

Hello,

I'm trying to build a social network with private groups. Only an administrator (me) can make the groups and invite members. Users of one group cannot see or be a part of the other groups.

I am using Drupal 6 and organic groups. I created 2 groups, and when I click "Groups" in the navigation, it does not show any groups. When I click "My Groups", it shows only one of the groups!

I'm currently using a recently published book entitled, 'Drupal 6 - Social Networking' as a guide for building a social network site. The following are excerpts from the book from the publishers, Packt Publishing. See: www.packtpub.com. I should say that the publishers, Packt Publishing, part sponsored the recent DrupalNGo Camp and sprint in Galway and asked if I would post some excerpts from their book.

Drupal 6 Social Networking: Communicating with Users

Our users can communicate with one another, which is great, but quite often as an administrator the need may arise for us to communicate with a user or users on our site. It may be to remind them about the web site or to inform active users about new changes to the site, which they may not have been made aware of.

This article is extracted from the "Drupal 6 Social Networking" book. In this article, you will learn:

• About mailing lists, and how to use them with our Drupal social network
• How to use an offline approach for contacting our users
• How to use blocks of content to get a message across to your users

Hmm, this is an interesting development: http://buddypress.org/about/

More competition could be good for Drupal.

Here are some preliminary screenshots of what we've implemented so far for the admin interfaces for Activity2. I'll try to keep this up to date as progress moves forward.

Looking for a freelance developer that loves clean code and wants to make some extra side income by helping with development for one of our web projects. The site is already up and running, what we need is someone that can carry out some additional work and upgrades. This is a fun project for the entertainment industry.

Must have have strong familiarity and experience with:
- Standards compliant code
- MySQL & PHP
- RSS
- Custom module development

If you're interested, please contact me at: bsamii@inmotionrealestate.com

I am trying to build a social network for a kids' summer camp. They want campers and counselors to remain in touch throughout the year in this private social network. The site will feature videos, photos, and audio, calendar for events, news feed, etc. The interesting twist to all this, is the camp has 4 distinct sections, and users/campers/counselors from one section cannot access content or other users from other sections. There will, of course be moderators which can access 1, 2 or all 4 sections.

Hello

I am working on website and like to use a block with last users login, or active members in my website

some website using thins function

http://drupalsn.com/

Active people today

http://teamsugar.com/

Some of our recently active members...
http://www.whatnow.org.uk/

Recently active members
http://www.whatnow.org.uk/people

I am trying with usernode module and views "set criteria to last login access, ) but without success

anyone have a solution?

Thanks

I'm not sure if anyone else has seen this announcement (http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=225) but I think it's a pretty important step in the right direction.

International Non-profit Association (Glocal Business Network) seeks Drupal programmer/webmaster

About the job:
• website development with Drupal (see http://mygbn.org and http://gbnonline.org to see what’s already done) and the job of a webmaster
• as we are non-profit, it’s not about the money, but as sponsors arrive, you will be paid for your job
• only committed and motivated people are welcome, with a long-term orientation (similar to our attitude)
• you should form a team, so you could divide up all the work to make it easier

http://matthewm.org/blog/drupal-screencast-fbconnect-module-and-twitter-...

So I made my first attempt at a screencast. It's pretty simple and straight forward - I hope someone finds it useful. It just goes through activating fbconnect and twitter modules. I also go over some of the basic feature/function to get you up and running asap. Enjoy!

MCG Services, LLC is an Indiana-based consulting firm. We are looking to hire a Drupal developer for a long-term contract. A Midwestern client of ours wants to develop an enterprise social network for approximately 2,000 users across 75 retail locations and one corporate headquarters.

FREELANCE DEVELOPERS – Drupal specialists at We Are VI

We Are VI are a fresh thinking design and media company based in London. Our culturally diverse VI team combine their talents to produce professional and creative solutions comprising of graphic design, 3D motion graphics and web development for a range of companies worldwide.

http://www.wearevi.com
http://twitter.com/wearevi

We are looking for a Drupal developers to complete a project on a freelance basis. At this moment we will be needing developer with extensive knowledge of Drupal social network components.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Social Computing in Education 2009 (WSCE2009)
in conjunction with SocialComp'09, August 29-31, 2009, Vancouver, Canada

http://groups.google.com/group/WSCE2009

Submission Deadline: May 8, 2009
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wsce2009

Facebook-style Statuses 6.x-2.0-Beta1 has just been released! The 2.x branch is now considered stable and more or less ready for production use. Now is the time to test it and submit any bug reports or feature requests before a full 2.0 release.

As the economic downturn becomes more pronounced and people begin to realize that government alone cannot help solve the problem, there is a growing awareness of the need for community and connection. We are developing a plug-in portal for individuals, groups, and organizations that want to create a better world through direct help to one another. It is an online city-specific community that is part social network and part CMS that connects those that need help with those that want to help.

Just launched a social networking/self-publishing site for writers, filmmakers, podcasters and their fans:

http://WellToldTales.com

Looking for feedback, suggestions for improvements.

Cheers,
Kevin

Check the site http://www.ohmybaby.in

Its using OG, Views, Panels, Private Message, Pathauto, node images as main modules.

Overview:

Create a social networking (SN) framework in Drupal 6 (D6) that integrates existing contrib modules together and create modules to extend SN features currently implemented in contrib modules.

This proposal is based on justageek's community proposal.

Motivation:

Notifying users of new content, events, actions is something that is common to enterprise level applications, social network or simply a blog. Notification can happen in many forms and via many mediums, some of the prominent ones being e-mail, instant messaging, SMS or live feed. Solutions uptill now have been separate and distant to each other, even though the problem is essentially the same, that is some message needs to be relayed to one of your user. The medium and carrier would differ and so would be the urgency and priority of delivery.

Hello everyone. I am the author of the Facebook-style Statuses module, and I have recently completed writing the reorganized 2.x branch (now in CVS/dev). The API should be clearer now and there are a few cool new features. In the next week or so I'm going to add/update two of the three remaining features: Advanced Forum integration and AHAH-driven status submission.

However, the one thing that I don't have any idea how to do is Views 2 integration. I've gone through the documentation and tried working through it before without success. So I would really appreciate it if someone who was knowledgeable in this area could guide me along with my foray into Views--whether that means reviewing integration that I write that doesn't work or actually writing the integration for the module yourself. I consider this an essential feature of the 2.x branch since it means not just integration with Views but also with FriendList and Flag Friend, so I will do it completely by myself at some point if no one steps up to help, but it would save me untold time and pain if someone could offer a little guidance in this area. And of course you'd have my perpetual gratitude.

Many social networking sites use AddThis like buttons. There are many modules for this in drupal. For example,
http://drupal.org/project/addtoany
http://drupal.org/project/sharethis
http://drupal.org/project/service_links
http://drupal.org/project/addthis

Hi,
I have a question about scalability issue of buddylist. Suppose I have a site with 1 million or more users and admin(or any user) have near about 200000 buddies or more. My question is can buddylist module handle the access of buddylist of admin specially when buddylist calls the function buddylist_get_buddies and execute a query :

$sql = 'SELECT b.buddy, u.name, u.mail, u.uid FROM {buddylist} b
INNER JOIN {users} u ON b.buddy = u.uid
WHERE b.uid = %d';

I'm building a social network, and I'm wondering how best to minimize the amount of effort I need to put into moderation, while keeping the site from being taken over by trolls and spammers. I'm looking at "troll", "ignore user", and Mollom. I'd love to hear what combinations have proven successful, and any other techniques you'd recommend. I'm planning to start with an invitation-only beta, where people pass invitations on to their friends, and hopefully that will lead to a good core group of legitimate users.

Thanks for any insight,

Ln

London based studio seeks for skilled Drupal developer(s) for project-based work. At the moment we have social network site in pipeline (Linkedin aline, though much simpler) and we need developer(s), experienced with building social network sites in Drupal, to consult it and develop further.

Please send CV and links of at least two social network sites you have been working on production@wearevi.com.

We are looking for people who are located in UK only.

I'm trying to build a Drupal site that allows users to vote on what they think basketball players are the best at. So for example I'll have an individual profile for each basketball player, and people will be able to click multiple buttons on each profile, if they think a player is the best shooter, or best defender, or best dunker, you get the idea. Those results will get added up and output, then I'll sort on who's the best at what.

I thought I could do this using:
Advanced Profile Kit(adding the categories for best)
One of the voting modules(I've tried Fivestar and Plus1)

Aimed at people wanting to learn from scratch how to build and manage a complex website in Drupal, this is a 7-day stay in the south of France, in the Roman town of Uzes on the Provence border, including a 5-day intensive Drupal course. The event runs Sunday to Sunday.

Day 1 (Sunday) is orientation and sight-seeing, days 2-6 (Monday to Friday) are taught from 9:30am to 5:30pm, then the evenings are yours and Day 7 (Saturday) is a final day of sight-seeing/relaxing before heading home on Sunday.

Goal: To create Facebook-like "Friend List" permissions to allow/deny access to nodes.

I want you to see my social network

What do you think? recommendations

www.fantabook.org

tnx

Hi everybody, this discussion is geared to the current (future) users of friendlist. As I created the initial views for friendlist, I started out with the mindset to create generic views, which users can customize further. However it ended up being more confusing and messy. I would like to take a different approach and create views that work better out of the box for the default relationships shipped with friendlist, namely, friend and fan.

The Eclipse foundation is relaunching their Eclipse PlugIn Central (EPIC) plugin repository site in Drupal. Help them make it rock by analyzing their requirements document and giving them the best tips possible. A large number of Drupal developers use Eclipse as their IDE and we owe them a debt of gratitude. Help make EPIC rock!

See here:
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/
http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/epic-20/
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPICModernization

EPIC Modernization Requirements Document V 0.1

Hello all

We are researching social networks and online communities here at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland. In addition to developing them, we need also to study the behavior of the users in these networks. I guess the best term is social network analysis.

Hey everyone,

Maintainers of activity type modules, or other interested parties,

If you had to rewrite your module from the ground up, or architect the ultimate end-all be-all module for recording and displaying user activity on your site, how would you go about it now, knowing what you know?

From maintaining the Activity module, I think I've come up with some basic needs for this kind of feature, so let's discuss how to best go about implementing the functionality of the ultimate solution.

Basic needs:

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I think pretty much anyone looking for this sort of feature for their site comes from knowing how it is implemented on facebook and are looking for something very similar. If that is the case, there are a few main things that we're looking for it to do, how it should look and act from a user's standpoint. But what are your expectations?

Functionally:

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