Social Networking Sites

This is the group for people who want to discuss Drupal's social networking tools. These tools include modules like Buddylist, Organic Groups, Invite, FOAF, Private message, and so forth. Sites that currently do successful social networking are:

The goal of this group is to foster communication between the developers of Drupal's social networking modules, discuss roadmaps, and collect community input.

User Gmap in Panel?

Posted by halfiranian on November 1, 2008 at 9:24pm

Hi guys,

My head is halfway between dead and inside out.

Quick question: does anyone know where there's a good tutorial (text or vid) that explains contexts/relationships/arguments in panels?

Longer question: I'm trying to get slick profile pages on my community website and I'd love to have a gmap of user location as a mini-panel.

I've got usernode running which takes the user location and is used by views for displaying all members on a big map

Easy Button Creating a Social Network with Drupal 5 or 6?

Posted by marcrocs on November 1, 2008 at 6:37pm

I'm a novice or what I like to call "wanna be geek" who does not getting my hands dirty. I have test installations of Elgg1.0, Drupal 6, just rolled back Drupal 5 and have installed countless modules.

I think I'm on the right path with Drupal 5. I am concerned about future proofing BUT am more concerned to give users a FUN and EASY BUTTON experience.

My key goals:
- All user content behind a garden wall meaning custom access denied message for non members to all user content except a small amount of teaser content.

Solution for user home pages for Drupal 6?

Posted by kirilius on October 31, 2008 at 7:21pm

A central part in any social networking site is the user's home page, which has not only the user's profile details (names, about myself kind of stuff, etc.) but also a place where all the contents submitted by the user can be found: e.g. latest (all) pictures by the user, latest (all) blog entries, latest (all) stories, articles, etc.

Seamless Integration of Web and Mobile [SMS] for Social Networking Site

Posted by aerozekiel on October 28, 2008 at 12:50pm

Is there any available contributed module out there for the seamless integration of Web to Mobile [sms] for drupal?:

Where you can customize your online social networking profile via your sms mobile phone offline.
a. upload photos [thru mms].
b. accept friend invitation [thru sms]
c. upload blogs [thru sms]
d. answer and reply back to forum topics [thru sms].
e. etc.
Where you can submit notification not only to your mailbox but also to your mobile phone thru sms.
I'm lookin' at www.rummble.com right now with this feature.

Using Blog API to post content in OpenSocial Applications..

Posted by prasoon gupta on October 25, 2008 at 11:19am

I want to develop a flash or simple system to be used as Orkut Application ( OpenSocial Application) So that people are able to post by logging into my website from an Orkut Application.

Their posts will be visible to everyone as per settings in Orkut..

Do I have to use Blog API module, to get Blog Post..

If yes.. please explain, I understand that Blog API allows us to post from Blogging Softwares.. now I want the data from XML/HTML etc.

Please help!!

Showcase of a Twitter clone, using Drupal.

Posted by mariusooms on October 19, 2008 at 11:57pm

Many times I've scratched my head at Drupal why I couldn't create a simple micro-blogging site. All the ingredients and modules are there, such as, Views, Rules, Flag, User management modules, CCK, Content Types. Yet one part was failing, which goes to the core of micro-blogging, to only list content of users you choose to follow. You can flag users, but you can not yet filter content to only list the nodes of the user you flagged.

tagging like facebook 'interests'?

Posted by arilikeairy on October 15, 2008 at 10:27pm

i'm working on social networking site and currently trying to figure out a way to create something similar to facebook's "interests" section. (ex. i type in a comma separated list of my interests and they show up in my profile as links to a search query of ppl with that interest.)

it seems that "tagging" oneself with interests can automatically provide links to the taxonomy term corresponding to the interest, and there are lot of taxonomy modules to provide addt'l functionality...but i have a few questions:

An universal Relation API

Posted by mercmobily on October 9, 2008 at 8:19am

Hi,

OK, now that I got your attention with a "catchy" title... and for those who didn't have a heart attack:

(This thread is specifically for Alex.K. However, everybody's welcome to jump in.)

http://drupal.org/project/user_relations_api

This is not a new API. This is a "glue API". This is the short version:

You install it
You tell it which "relation" module it should talk to
That's it

From then on, any Drupal module has access to a generic set of functions to see if two people have an established relation, who the "related" users are, and so on.

problems with the tweaking of profiles (for directory)

Posted by mohamed_e on October 8, 2008 at 6:16pm

hi all,

thanks a lot for drupal and all your efforts! since quite some time I
play around wit drupal and use it as it comes. thanks to the easy
handling of drupal!

this was sufficient up to now. however, for a upcoming project I have
the feel that my average drupal knowledge is not sufficient and i
have also to work with the profiles the first time.

i would like to establish a database for organisations (6000+) were
they enter themselves. i guess, this can easily done with the
profiles. however, I have the feeling that it is quite limited when I

Friendlist: the home stretch

Posted by mercmobily on October 5, 2008 at 5:25pm

Hi,

After 7541 lines between code, comments and documentation by Tony Mobily and Marius Ooms, after an attempt bit-murder, after heated discussions with the "guys and ladies who count", after the typical last minute major rewrite suggested (to me: ordered) by the person that makes D7 possible... after all this:

FriendList is finally ready.

There is no official release, but only because I really want to get it perfect. Areas of interest:

Documentation. We rewrite a bug chunk the very last minute... is the documentation 100000% current? (especially the developers' doc)

Drupal Camp Chicago Invite

Posted by toursheet on October 4, 2008 at 11:33pm

You are invited to attend Drupal Camp Chicago on October Friday 24 & Saturday 25 2008.

http://drupalcampchicago.org

Who/Why:

For over 2 years Chicago Drupal has truly highlighted the benefits of an open source initiative. We have built resourceful bridges between many local Chicago establishments including non-profits, entrepreneurs, Drupal development companies, independent consultants, hobbyist, and others in the mid-west. Our goal for this Drupal Camp is to bring everyone together for open communication, education, fun, and industry networking.

What:

Buddylist, Friends, etc. modules

Posted by catch on October 2, 2008 at 3:40pm
Last updated by MMokhtar on Fri, 2013-02-08 02:10

There are two main contenders in the Drupal 6 "relationship" space as of July 2010: User Relationships and Flag Friend.

Drupal and OpenSocial, for real

Posted by mercmobily on September 27, 2008 at 10:07am

Hi,

After completing a working Activity Log module, and what I consider a state of the art FriendList module, I am now about to start phase 3 of my project: making sure that Drupal is able to be an OpenSocial container.

After a bit of research, I found:

http://drupal.org/project/opensocial -- No code, no clear description of what it is
http://drupal.org/project/opensocial-container - No code. A mock web site.

Drupal effectively ignoring OpenSocial is a huge problem, that needs fixing.
So, here is what I would like to know:

Activity stream modules

Posted by catch on September 23, 2008 at 1:14pm
Last updated by amitaibu on Wed, 2012-10-03 21:26

Activity stream functionality (eg Facebook's activity stream) is an increasingly popular feature for social websites. It's also a very complex feature both in terms of functionality and architecture, so it's unfortunate that we've got developer fragmentation in this area.

Luckily, we have the power to collaborate! The goal of this analysis is to understand the differences of the main activity stream modules and ideally, spur cooperation between the maintainers on fewer projects, or to at least understand why four essentially competing projects are necessary.

Replacing the Activity module with Rules?

Posted by mercmobily on September 20, 2008 at 7:54am

Hi,

I need to create a social networking site with Drupal 6 (yay). As a social networking site, there is obviously a need for an "Activity log" of some sort. The Activity module had its last commit abut 4 months ago -- and judging from the issue queue, that's not because it's immaculate.

Then, I read this message:

http://drupal.org/node/249927

I am not sure what "Content log messages" are. However, I was thinking: would a module that exports just:

1) A database structure
2) Rules integration to "add" a record and that's it

Which version of user_relationships would you like to see maintained?

Posted by alex.k on September 14, 2008 at 7:52am

Still using 5.x-2.x

15% (9 votes)

Would like to see 5.x-3.x developed

19% (12 votes)

I'm on Drupal 6 and want a 6.x-1.0 release ASAP

63% (39 votes)

Other

2% (1 vote)

Not using user_relationships but another social networking module

2% (1 vote)

Total votes: 62

The new Friendlist module needs you! Please help testing "Rules" integration

Posted by mercmobily on September 11, 2008 at 6:31pm

Hi,

The new FriendList module is coming along nicely. I have finished the Views integration, which -- I am happy to say -- is really quite something. It took longer to integrate with "views" than it took to write the whole module!

Anyhow, I am now battling a new monster: "Rules". Rules' main developer is on holiday. So, no hard-core help there either!

If you know Rules, and would like to help me test what I did (and tell me how to test it...!), please hop here:

http://drupal.org/project/friendlist

User Relationship API vs Friendslist API

Posted by toemaz on September 6, 2008 at 7:42am
Last updated by betz on Sun, 2011-01-23 03:08

This wiki page is setup to define the differences between the User Relationship API (UR) and Friendslist API (FL).

New FriendList API

Posted by mercmobily on September 4, 2008 at 3:22pm

Hi,

I created a new API + module to manage Friend Lists.

http://drupal.org/project/friendlist

I am about to load it up onto CVS. Before then, please download:

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/friendlist.tgz

Before starting any discussion on the fact that we already have such APIs for Drupal etc. etc., PLEASE:

Read the project's page
Read the project's source code

So... if you are up for some testing, please come forward.

BetterNetworker.com Launched - Social Network Joomla Conversion with 17,000 members!

Posted by jasonflenniken on August 27, 2008 at 12:51am

After about 4 months of development, we've launched http://www.betternetworker.com!

BetterNetworker is an online community for the network and internet marketing industry.

The original site was built on Joomla 1.0.13, along with community builder. The new community is now on Drupal 5.x.

Part of this build out involved converting all membership data, including friends, photo galleries, forum posts (from FireBoard), all content (6,000+ articles and videos), comments, statistical data, for over 16,000 users.

Since our site launch, we've gained over 1,000 members in a week.

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