Questions tagged [social-networks]
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How would a stateless server handle events when the user disconnects?
I want to build a chat application with a stateless server as backend. Users have an online and offline status. When a user connects to the server, the server marks that user as online.
Now imagine a ...
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How do social media platforms stay up-to-date with messages and posts? [closed]
This is a question I have always wondered
Is it as simple as repetitive pinging of a server in a seperate thread or is it more complicated than that?
I am only talking about the app version not the ...
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Cookie consent and facebook cookies?
As a bit of a background, we create a website where a "third party" can organize a sport event, letting us handle enrollment and other checks.
Well on our website ever since we implemented a cookie "...
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Recommendation for user synchronization between organization and external website
We are building a small social media platform for collaboration among a group of similar (but disparate) organizations. Each organization will have a small group of users who will be able to post ...
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Efficiently broadcast user status
This turned out to be a rather interesting problem contrary to my expectations.
Imagine a simple chat app, a user registers then can add other users to their contacts list and start conversations.
I ...
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How to use social sign in with my PHP website?
I have a website built on PHP, and now I want users to be able to log in. I do not want to take care of user management myself, so I'm thinking that social sign in would be convenient both for myself ...
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How can I track who invited who to install?
After a user invites their contacts from within my app, I want to send the first user a notification "so and so installed the app, you can now connect with them."
So when a user invites someone, I ...
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Database structure for combaning local login with social login
I'm implementing a platform where users can create an account with my system and use it to login. Also I allow them to add any external login (social login) such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and so on....
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Sharing Website Content : AddThis vs Separate Integration of Social Networks
We have a requirement to add share buttons ( Facebook, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn, WeChat) on all the pages of our website (excluding some of the landing pages)
We did a POC for the same with the AddThis ...
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Is it a bad idea to use Facebook friendships as sole source of filtering content?
I'm writing a social app in Django where all users sign up through Facebook using Python Social Auth. All content that a user sees will be content created by her Facebook friends. Initially, I planned ...
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Automatically detect offensive images [closed]
I want to develop an app where users can upload an share images. I am planning to integrate a disclaimer which says that it is prohibited to upload images which contain crime, sex, insults etc. ...
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How do you calculate affinity in Edge Rank/Activity Streams
I have been researching how to build a newsfeed that sorts the order by relevancy.
I have been following along Facebook's Edge Rank and Etsy's Activity Feed Architecture and I can't figure out how ...
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Social network notification system
Background
I am working on an app for a client that includes some social networking features. I was originally developing the mobile front-end, but circumstances have left me in charge of developing ...
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Notifications system with too many subscribers
In my application users can subscribe to other users, like in every social network out there. However I'm experiencing some trouble when a user has too many subscribers. Every time a user posts ...
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Best practices in designing a social network app? [closed]
What are best practices when it comes to designing a social network app for Android (possible iOS port later depending on uptake)?
It's my first time architecting something this scale from scratch, ...
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Designing a social network with CQRS, graph databases and relational databases in mind
I have done quite an amount of research on the topic so far, but i couldn't come up with a conclusion to make up my mind.
I am designing a social network and during my research i stumbled upon graph ...
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When doing social application development, is it ok to use my company credentials for all client work? [closed]
As a web application developer, recently my work in creating Social Applications has taken a lot of momentum (specifically, Social Login buttons.)
Is it ok to use my company's social network ...
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Is Neo4j graph database sufficient to itself for all query types? [closed]
Neo4j eases relationship traversals => especially useful for a social network for instance.
But are there any scenarios when it's advised to associate an additional relational database (or other ...
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Open Source Cloud Computing
Recently I realized that the most popular social platforms on the net are in the hand of just a few companies, Google, Twitter, Facebook, to name just a few. Taking into account the world changing ...
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Is it reasonable to require passwords when users sign into my application through social media accounts?
I've built an application that requires users to authenticate with one or more social media accounts from either Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
Edit
Once the user has signed in, an 'identity' for ...
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Ways of Gathering Event Information From the Internet [closed]
What are the best ways of gathering information on events (any type) from the internet ?
Keeping in mind that different websites will present information in different ways.
I was thinking 'smart' ...
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How to deal with social login
In my new web app I'm going to allow social login through Twitter (maybe), Facebook and Google and I'm in search of the best way to do it.
Actually I'm using Rails with Devise + Omniauth and this is ...
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What will generate an adjacency matrix file with a specified topology for me?
I am writing an application that takes some file specifying an adjacency matrix and uses this to construct a graph (in this case, a directed social network).
What I would like to do is specify the ...
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Is there something like Diaspora written in PHP?
I am looking for an open source social networking platform. Diaspora is perfect, except it is not written in PHP. Is there a project like Diaspora written in PHP?
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Programming logic to group a users activities like Facebook
So I am trying to develop an activity feed for my site. Basically If I UNION a bunch of activities into a feed I would end up with something like the following.
Chris is now friends with Mark
Chris ...
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There is a (social) network / website for developers share ideas and find a team for development? [closed]
Supposing I want to do some kind of project, but I want to find more people interested in that area that can develop some project with me, there is some website focused on this?
Example: "I want to ...
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How does one network at software conferences? [closed]
I'm still at Microsoft TechEd, and the response to my question about how to effectively use my time at software conferences was overwhelmingly "networking is the most useful part of software ...
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Twitter's new approach of third party application? How would you see this move as developer.... especially you plan to build a twitter client
Just today morning I have read news that twitter has issued a warning to developers not to make any new third party client, the official announcement can be read here.
As a programmer, how do you see ...
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Is Google's Friend Connect tool defunct?
Looking at the Friend Connect sites, documentation, example, I've noticed that:
there haven't been updates in a long time
many of the sites used as example sites are dead or abandoned
the community (...
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Amount of man hours to write a social network [closed]
I have big dreams of writing the next Facebook (unrealistic I know) and I'm in the planning stages as we speak and I'm umming and ahing about using a php framework for this and how many development ...
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Project size vs. Team size
I'm a freelance solo web developer/designer/iPhone app maker by night (IT technician by day) and I'm interested in developing a social network site to go public (like Facebook, fingers crossed for ...
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Social networking sites static caching
In sites like facebook or orkut or friendster what's displayed at the bottom instead of main web address like static.ak.fbcdn.net or profile.ak.fbcdn.net? Are these different servers or they are just ...
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Is Project Titan (Facebook email app) going to be a game changer from a programmers perspective?
Is Project Titan (Facebook email app) going to be a game changer from a programmers perspective?
Although some details are still scarce, the internet is slowly learning more about this new software. ...
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Would you allow your programmers to use Messenger and social networks like Facebook? [closed]
I had many bosses, each one had a different approach about allowing or not use of Windows Live Messenger, Facebook, and many other Internet sites.
Of course Internet is really needed to research ...
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As a software engineer, who should I be following on Twitter? [closed]
Who in the software engineering and software development fields uses Twitter to tweet about relevant happenings in the field?