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.

Site question/advice

Posted by mrplaid-gdo on November 17, 2007 at 2:28am

I created a social network site for Horror fans called Fiendster.net. I'm not much of a developer so I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to take a look at it and tell me if I'm at least on the right track. I'm also open to any suggestions for improvement. Thank you for any help.

Unable to contact Pierre Guillaume (pg) regarding Drupal Developer position at World Bank

Posted by Carlos Miranda Levy on November 14, 2007 at 9:01am

I know this is not proper procedure, but every time I tried to contact Pierre Guillaume, the contact form tells me that the 3 contacts per hour limit has been reached, although I haven't contacted anyone at all...

It might be an error triggered by the fact that I do not have a groups.drupal.org account per se, but use my @drupal.org account to log in here (which also includes blank spaces "Carlos Miranda Levy" by the way).

In any case, Pierre, if you see this, contact me via my contact form here or at drupal.org:

Show off your Drupal photo gallery!

Posted by marco88 on November 9, 2007 at 1:12pm
Last updated by msathesh on Tue, 2012-04-24 04:20

I haven't got a photo gallery on Drupal yet but thinking seriously about it (I have some stuff on Flickr ready to move in), however I thought it would be very cool to have a list of all the Drupal photo galleries out there for the people who want to create a new one (like me) or just for the curious.

I decided to reuse Thilo's nicely formatted post about Gallery2 sites for collecting the main data (I hope you don't mind?). Don't forget to go update his post if you are using Gallery2 specifically.

Anybody that did not use Gallery2 for his Drupal photo gallery?

Looking forward to see your artwork!

Cheers,
Marc.

Social networking - my verdict

Posted by korakora on November 9, 2007 at 1:00pm

Just wrote this after the MS ad platform on Facebook news came out.
Thanks to a friend for the links sent through comment at http://www.korakora.org/projects/node/225#comment-74 - especially the link to http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t349...

Fatima

Social networking - my verdict
http://www.korakora.org/wordpress/archives/620
November 8th, 2007 | Category: Fats, Vitamins & Minerals > Wika at Hirap > Media Watch

Design Notes for Open Social Project

Posted by lyricnz on November 8, 2007 at 10:59pm
Last updated by dzigman on Mon, 2007-12-10 05:24

This is a wiki page to document our thoughts and notes on the Open Social project.

Questions to be resolved:

is it okay to use the Zend API (consider PHP version requirements, possible licensing issues with packaging/distribution, shared-hosting environments, etc)
should we reuse some of the code that's already written in this space (SoC 2006, SoC 2007) or reimplement with Zend
how do we wrap the Gdata APIs with Drupal-friendly wrappers?
how do we (should we?) wrap the Open Social APIs (and container specific extensions) with Drupal-friendly wrappers?

Open Social Primer

Posted by andremolnar on November 3, 2007 at 5:43am

This is my book report on information provided by Google. As such I am simply taking Google's word for most of this. At this time there is much information missing, particularly for creating OpenSocial ready services (SPI / Containers). There are also some missing (documented, but not yet implemented) features (for example OpenSocial Data APIs). And none of the high profile partners (from what I can tell) have 'turned on' their OpenSocial services or features.

Links of interest
OpenSocial API documentation

New Drupal Project - OpenSocial

Posted by lyricnz on November 1, 2007 at 9:57pm

This is just a quick note to let you all know I have created a new project to support the APIs provided by Google as part of the OpenSocial Project. Of course, this is all brand new, so we're not exactly sure how it's going to work with Drupal, but I'm definitely interested in getting you all onboard!

Toward an Open Social Network Powered by Free Software

Posted by mlncn on October 31, 2007 at 5:35am

Breaking Open Facebook with Open Source Software (Part 2)

it’s important for socially aware software developers to begin thinking about how to provide alternative services to proprietary social networks. While I acknowledge this is a very high level description scarce on implementation details, I hope that it spurs some spirited discussions and future innovation.

http://www.idealog.us/2007/10/breaking-open-f.html

Google's Open Social network

Posted by Amazon on October 31, 2007 at 4:34am

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071031/D8SJVU400.html

Popular, high profile, high traffic Drupal sites for BADCAMP and Drupal.org

Posted by ChrisBryant on October 29, 2007 at 9:54am

I'm cross posting this from here in case anyone else has any information to share: http://drupal.org/node/187464

Hi Fellow Drupalers,
I'm working on a session for BADCAMP (http://badcamp07.org) where we will walk through some cool, popular and high performance Drupal sites. The main focus here is high-profile, big companies, high traffic. What is the biggest and highest traffic Drupal site out there?

buddylist.module: Complete translation to Spanish / Traducción completa al Español

Posted by Carlos Miranda Levy on October 25, 2007 at 5:33am

I have completed the translation to Spanish of the Buddylist v.5.x-1.0 (2007-Jun-27) module and related files and modules (buddylist_views.inc, buddylist.module, buddylist.info, buddylist.install, buddylistautoadd.info, buddylistinvite.info, buddylistautoadd.module, buddylistinvite.module).

Personalized knowledge network from people you trust

Posted by Amazon on October 24, 2007 at 5:02am

http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2007/10/twine-first-impression.html

Possible first of a new generation of social networks.

List of over 50 social networking white label services

Posted by Amazon on October 12, 2007 at 1:49am

If you are looking to understand what should be in a social network service, look at what everyone else is doing.

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/02/12/list-of-white-label-social...

Cheers,
Kieran

Buddylist 2.x Package dev version released

Posted by nodestroy on September 23, 2007 at 5:43pm

Hi,

here we discussed the development of the new buddylist verion: http://groups.drupal.org/node/5233

the current state:
- buddy_api module - API for buddy actions
- buddylist_ui module - User Interface for buddy_api, supporting oneway AND twoway buddymode
- buddy_api_shortestroute module - block to display the shortest route between two given users

Block user on a per-user basis? Surprised that I can't seem to find any projects for this

Posted by coyote-dupe on September 19, 2007 at 10:30pm

There are modules and projects to allow users to give access to various pieces of content, or to create buddylists.

There do not seem to be any solutions for allowing users to place other users who offend them on a "blocked" list.

What would be really nice is a way for users to add people to a blocked list, so that modules could be configured to, for instance:

prevent users from sending private messages to people who have blocked them
prevent users from seeing profiles or nodeprofiles of people who have blocked them

DoubleBlackDesign.com

Posted by husterk on September 2, 2007 at 5:54pm
Last updated by husterk on Sun, 2007-09-02 17:54

Distributing Product Design and Engineering Knowledge Across the Net^SM

DoubleBlackDesign.com was started on August 31, 2007 with a single goal in mind. This goal is to spread the product design and engineering best practices that can typically only be acquired through long-term experience to all aspiring product designers and engineers throughout the world.

Poker Social Networking website using drupal

Posted by k9poker on August 2, 2007 at 11:41pm

We'd like to let you know about our web site: http://www.k9poker.com - It
is a social network of poker players. The name "K9Poker" is inspired by
the famous "Dogs Playing Poker" painting by Calvin Coolidge. We think
poker is such a social game that a networking web site dedicated to it is
a perfect fit. On K9Poker, a player can create a personalized poker
profile, establish a network of poker friends, and search for poker home
games and tournaments in their area. We'd appreciate if you take a look at and review our web site.

New Social Networking Website

Posted by preetinder on August 1, 2007 at 3:34pm

Edited.

"Must have" features for a social networking site

Posted by thomjjames on July 31, 2007 at 1:19pm

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping to spark abit of a debate here with the following question.

With so many feature rich social networking sites out there now what are the "must have" features every social network should have??

be great to know what everyone thinks, i'm working on a list of my "must haves", i'll post it when it's done.

cheers
Tom

http://adrenalinehub.com
http://blogyoursprog.com
http://tomswebstuff.com

buddylist 2.x development

Posted by fago on July 20, 2007 at 2:46pm

I'm glad to announce development of a buddylist 2.x module. Our team needs buddylist's functionality for a project, but decided that buddylist's (1.x) quality is too bad for use in our project and that the effort to fix it wouldn't be worth the trouble. So we'll build buddylist 2.x..

Buddylist 2.x design decisions:

use views (for now with usernode..) for all buddy listing, so they are
extensible and customizable
use workflow-ng for all notifications, which provides e-mail notifications - or whatever you want (just write the appropriate action..)
to simplify only the buddylist modus with "Confirmed buddies" will be
supported - no one-way buddy connections
only implement the basics in the module, other things should be built as add-ons.
So there will be no buddy-group functionality, or tracker integration (for
this views can be used nevertheless).
we have also planned to develop an extension, which shows the shortest
buddy connection to other people later
Probably there will be no need for changing the db-scheme. So
upgrading would be just a matter of replacing the module.

So in short the pros/cons of this design will be:
+ small, stable, performant module
+ good code reusing
- a lot of dependencies (views, usernode, worfklow-ng for notifications)

development will be done by nodestroy

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