hi there, I want to setup social network website for group of students at our university and I want to pickup a script that will make it different from other social networks with the NewsFeed, the one Facebook has, its like updates stream from your friends. Any ones knows any script (paid or free) that has this feature?
Why not make your own? I really doubt any of them do. Technically, it shouldn't be hard. If you have a coder, or can code yourself, you can pull it off doing this: 1 - On every action, update an updated_at field in your database. 2 - Make a controller to iterate through a "Friends" model 3 - Make a partial that sorts the data based on latest update 4 - add AJAX to mimick facebook and of course there are some cool things Facebook does with the actual algorithm. Such as, limiting one type of "story" and giving another type more chance to be shown.
That would be great if I had a single clue about coding well I tweak wordpress, play with css and html but no serverside dark I even dont need ajax, most social networks are very calm, your screen dont change if you dont do anything or someone else does to you. but at facebook everytime you check there are some updates, thats what I would like to have, Any ideas how much would that cost to order such a plugin for an opensource social network script out there?
Depends on which script you are looking at. Really, all social network sites are, is a glorified user registration/login system with a few database values tied to each user. I would still recommend you get your own created. The social networking scripts I've seen are bloated, overrated, and overpriced. Not to mention that everyone has them . AJAX is as calm as it gets, I don't know what you're saying there. It saves a lot of load on the server too. Facebook uses it for its news feed, so that is the way to go if you want to be on par with their news feed. Buddyzone is a myspace script that lets customers pay for things like that. The script is $400 last time I checked. I'm sure the modification will cost several hundred. Again, go for the programmer. At least your money benefits someone who needs it, and you get something unique.