Social Networking Sites

I am a master student from London South Bank University in the United Kingdom. I am doing a research on one specific aspect of Drupal.

In essence my study is about assessing ways in which Drupal can be used to provide various kind of social networking functions since it wasn't primarily designed for that purpose.

Please tell us how you think this great content managemnt system ( CMS) can also provide social networking capabilities (features).

In order to help us answer the above question it would be extremely helpful to have the views of Drupal users like yourself.

Hi everyone,

I am fairly new to Drupal - only a couple of months. I read 2 books and have tried to launch a social network type of site. My first immpression is that Drupal is very customizable, but somewhat of a learning curve. It is awesome. It does take a lot of trials and error type of work to get things work.

http://www.nabuur.com/

Really nice site, too, built by Dutch people, I think.

Does anyone else know of any Drupal sites for social good? I think there must be quite a few now. We should make a page for them.

Currently, drupal integration with networking sites happens through contrib modules that all store their settings in different ways. For example, both Facebook Connect and Twitter store combinations of drupal user IDs with external IDs (Facebook uid, and Twitter account name) in custom database tables, and both provide a custom interface to edit social network account information in a user profile. Consequently, views integration is custom and relies on the contrib module to implement it.

Seems very common things (functions) to do for any social Networking sites but why they r so hard to do in drupal?

1. I am trying to list all the countries from a drop down list, then list all the cities in another drop down list that based on the selected country.

after searching and asking on drupal forum, it seems the "hierarchical select" module will do the good job for that but it is only in dev stage and it won't work well with content profile module (which i am using atm) also it only works with "content taxonomy" for drupal 5 at this moment.

Hello There

I am new at Drupal and I loved it.

How can we create all links of User X on left side of any page/article/blog or poll create by that user (X).

Like..
Author Name
Picture
His Blog
His Profile
Make Me a Friend
Private Message Me
Sign My Guestbook
Give Me A Gift
Blog Posts
Photo Galleries
Videos
Bookmark Lists
Links Posted
Comments

Just Like we see in right side of teamsuagr website http://teamsugar.com/group/2788211/blog/3577031
Please help me .

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.

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.

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/