Social Networking Sites

We encourage users to post events happening in the community to the community events group on https://www.drupal.org.

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.

sugree's picture

XFN Integration

Drupal provides wide-range of functionalities to build any kind of websites from personal blog to community sites. Usually each person has his/her own blog and also is a part of lots of communities, social networks and so on. Most communities offers a profile page associate to each user just like Drupal do. Have you ever posted entries with some referring to your friends, your colleagues or your family? Do you ever stop a while to choose their profiles to be referred? In addition, we are moving to semantic generation that we should make use of relationship among you and your friends. Social Graph API has been introduced by Google to accomplish this functionalities with least modification using XFN.

Description:

Actually, I mean something like [buddylist][] with standard-based cross site social networking module. In short, it should be named just like "XFN Module". This module will offer essential features to help any users to build social network using XFN.

  1. Let user define their own friends and associate relationships as a part of profile. It's not only just friends but also family and many more. See [XFN 1.1][1.1] for more information.
  2. XFN-enabled friend list in profile page.
  3. Views integration to make friends blocks or pages.
  4. XFN filter to help writing article much more easy and fun with your friends. No need to remember their blogs, their facebook, their flickr, and many more.
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Drupal Module Score Definitions

Following up on John's post on his New Community-Powered Drupal Module Review Site, I suggested that we create definitions for the scores associated with each rating attribute.

Below is my initial draft of what those scores might be. Feel free to edit these directly or comment with suggestions/questions.

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Score Features Reliability Ease of Use Documentation 5 Read more
JohnForsythe's picture

New Community-Powered Drupal Module Review Site

Drupal Modules is a community-powered Drupal module review system I've been working on for about a year now. I'm happy to announce the site is finally open to the public!

Here's a brief list of what you can do on the site:

  • Rate and review any module
  • Compare modules to see which has the best features, documentation, etc
  • Check how many downloads a module is getting
  • Easily search modules and reviews for keywords
  • Get automatic recommendations for similar modules
  • And more!
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IceCreamYou's picture

Idea: "Trust" module

I'm building/have built a social networking site, and coming across Twine made me realize that it would be nice to build some kind of "Trust" module, where users could specify what level of trust they attribute to others, and this trust level would affect how content shows up and is organized.

Trust Levels

Specifically, I'm thinking of 5 levels of trust:
* Always Hide - Essentially equivalent to "block user," this would make it so the blocker doesn't see any content from the blocked user

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joshmitchell's picture

Drupal Social Networking Sites Up and Running

Hi everyone,

I recently stumbled across a couple of live Drupal-powered social networking sites:

www.teamsugar.com
www.icommunity.tv

As someone with no programming experience, I'm eyeing Drupal as a potention solution I can have outsourced for customization into a social networking website. However, I'd like to see additional examples where Drupal has worked well in such an environment. Can anyone suggest other such sites?

Thanks!
Josh

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spadkins's picture

How about a Social Networking BOF (and master strategy session) at DrupalCon2008 Boston?

I am very interested in the state of Social Networking direction for Drupal.
I would also be interested in writing/contributing modules if I knew how they would all fit together.

I propose a Bird-of-a-Feather (BOF) meeting on Social Networking in Drupal at DrupalCon2008 in Boston.

We can get to know all of the people working on Social Networking stuff for Drupal and create a coordinated
plan for making Drupal a top-notch Social Networking platform. (If this plan already exists, please fill me in on it.)

What do you think?

Stephen Adkins

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nodestroy's picture

buddylist2 package

Buddylist2 is ready for testing!

I started developing buddylist2 a while ago, and now I need some feedback and/or serious issues to finish it. After a stable version i will port it to drupal6.

I have written a little documentation to get started. (suggestions for improvement is welcome)

it would be glad to have a stable version soon.

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GreenJelly's picture

Social Networking Unified Access Library. A new and better approach?

I submitted this within the forums, but I don't think it will get the attention it desires... I think this is an important step in development in Drupals Social Networking... Take a look and see if it is something that will draw the attention and the enthusiasm that it deserves. If it is deemed usable, then I will start working on an API.

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PRFB's picture

What ad server do you use?

I have a consumer information site in a very specific niche. I've got AdSense and Commission Junction accounts today, but I think it would be very feasible to sell CPM ads directly (since this is such a specific niche and I know a lot of the players personally). The question is, using what platform?

My closest competitor uses Open AdStream by Real Media (and they say this on their site!) but their site also happens to be written in ColdFusion so I don't think of them as cutting-edge...

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robomalo's picture

Which module set is the best/most promising for building a social network on Drupal?

Buddylist - http://drupal.org/project/buddylist
29% (18 votes)
User relationships - http://drupal.org/project/user_relationships
56% (35 votes)
Friend (D6) - http://drupal.org/project/friend
16% (10 votes)
Total votes: 63
hip's picture

Filtering dates for a 'period of time' view

Hi,
I'm using views.module (altogether with some other modules) to run an events site for my town. I'm trying to get some views from the events nodes (CCK content type) but I don't have a clue how to filter them properly.

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fearitude's picture

Drupit Project

I came up with the idea to create an open source "Myspace", "Facebook", "Bebo" "[insert social networking site name here" type platform using the Drupal platform. It seems a lot of people are asking how to make clone sites, or add similar functionality to a Drupal website.

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fashion's picture

How is this done ?

Just require a small help. I have seen many social networking sites like linkedin.com ask you to invite your friends to join and they just need you to login to google, yahoo or msn through a small box on their site. When you login an email is automatically sent to all your address book members inviting them to join. How does this work ?

Is there any module or api integration available for drupal social networking sites.

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abqaria's picture

My Social Networks

Hey

this is my current social networks i do own, feedback needed

MDLinked.com for medical doctors

i-bloggers.com for bloggers

lounge99.com for women

lounge55.com private community

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kirilius's picture

Views in the context of a node

Hi there,

I posted this question in the main Drupal forum but maybe this group is the right place for it.

Here is the situation:

I have a view defined that shows some information relevant/dependent on the context of a node. In my case I am using the view to show some related nodes to the main one.
Let's say the URL is http://mysite/views/show_more_data/[nid]
There is one parameter that is the node ID of the node we want to display more info about. This view works fine when called through the URL (a page view).

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yelvington's picture

Personalization and message feeds

While Drupal already has many of the tools necessary to implement social networking techniques on a community site, I haven't found anything that works like the personalized central "News Feed" system in Facebook or Twitter.

I'm curious whether anyone has done any development work, planning or merely thinking about how this might be done in Drupal, and about the implications.

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najibx's picture

The Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference

Successideaweb.com will be promoting Drupal in The Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference - MyGOSSCON 2007 6-7 December 2007 which will be held at Putrajaya International Convention Center (PICC) Malaysia. I posted it here...

We will have a booth and a presentation "Web Content Management with Drupal". I know, it's a little bit colorful as compared to the others ... to keep people awake !

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pmaiorana's picture

Lullabot Podcast about IncBizNet.com and FastCompany.com

For those of you interested in learning more about the Drupal sites and social networks that we're launching at Mansueto Digital, which I discussed briefly at last night's NY group meetup, the Lullabot podcast and interview with our president, Ed Sussman, just went live.

They cover a range of topics like why we chose Drupal, some of the firms we're working with to launch the sites, and our experience with Drupal thus far. Jeff Eaton and James Walker were also on hand to address some of the technical details of the sites like our custom modules, OG implementation, etc.

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macco's picture

How to reset static $buddies-variable

Hello,

how can I reset the static $buddies-variable before I use the buddy_api_get_buddies():

<?php
function buddy_api_get_buddies($op = 'uid', $uid = NULL) {

static $buddies; // I MEAN THIS !!!!!

if (!$uid) {
global $user;
$uid = $user->uid;
}
if (!isset($buddies[$op][$uid])) {
$buddies[$op][$uid] = array();
$sql = 'SELECT u.uid, u.name, b.buddy FROM {buddylist} b
INNER JOIN {users} u ON b.buddy = u.uid
WHERE b.uid = %d AND u.status = 1';
$result = db_query($sql, $uid);

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dldege's picture

Buddylist 1.1 Beta Available

Over the last few months there has been a number of bug fixes and a few small improvements to the buddylist 1.0 module for Drupal 5. A 1.1 beta version is now available for download and testing.

Download: http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/buddylist-5.x-1.1-beta.tar.gz
Release Details: http://drupal.org/node/193564

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