social-networking

I'm trying to design a data model that denotes one user being the friend of another user. This is what i've come up with so far, but it seems clunky, is there a better solution? User ===== Id Name etc... UserFriend =========== UserId FriendId IsMutual IsBlocked UserRelationship ==== RelatingUserID RelatedUserID Type[friend, block, etc] Agree that mutuality doesn't belong as a column; breaks normalization. To go one record per two users and avoid consuming extra memory that the proposed methods suggest (twice as much as needed, since there are two records for each user), you can do the

I have about 5000 agents (people) in my model. I want to give them an arbitrary number of friends and have reciprocal but random pairing. So if person A chooses person B then person B also chooses person A. My code works fine, but is fairly slow. I will likely want to increase both the number of friends and the number of people in the future. Any quicker suggestions? ask people [ let new-links friends - count my-links if new-links > 0 [ let candidates other people with [ count my-links < friends ] create-links-with n-of min (list new-links count candidates) candidates [ hide-link ] ] ] Note

How to use messaging in android application by using WhatsApp and WeChat ? Actually requirement is to send sms using WhatsApp and WeChat (Free sms). Subhalaxmi I got the Solution.. Here I am posting the answer so that it may help other people who may have same doubt.. For Share through any application... public void sendAppMsg(View view) { Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND); intent.setType("text/plain"); String text = " message you want to share.."; // change with required application package intent.setPackage("PACKAGE NAME OF THE APPLICATION"); if (intent != null) { intent

I'm planning on creating a social networking + MP3 lecture downloading / browsing / commenting / discovery website using Ruby on Rails. Partially for fun and also as a means to learn some Ruby on Rails. I'm looking for a social networking framework that I can use as a basis for my site. I don't want to re-invent the wheel. Searching the web I found three such frameworks. Which of these three would you recommend using and why? http://portal.insoshi.com/ http://www.communityengine.org/ http://lovdbyless.com/ It depends what your priorities are. If you really want to learn RoR, do it all from

We used the link: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=[shared URL] ...to share a particular page. However, Facebook Sharer uses the cached version of the images and the title. Is there a way to quickly clear the Facebook cache or how long do we have to wait until the data gets updated? I placed <link rel='image_src' href='[preview image]' /> in between the tags. catandmouse I found a solution to my problem. You could go to this site: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug ...then put in the URL of the page you want to share, and click "debug". It will automatically extract all the info