Comments on: on eduglu – part 1: background

By: Abhijeet

Abhijeet — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:20:56 +0000

Just to add to it, my earlier comment was [not sure if I forgot to submit it]

“Darcy, I can’t remember exactly but there was an implementation of this concept in social networking sites. I remember reading about it couple of weeks back online.

Also, have one doubt in mind – do you think this centralized service concept is flexible enough to collect information from various Internet advertising agencies and assign it to one “Advertiser” to have him choose the options from.

May be I am being too complicated but if you don’t get I would explain again.”

By: Abhijeet

Abhijeet — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:19:13 +0000

The application what I was talking about last night, I found one example here. It was buildwith.com that aggregates information on your profile on different social networking websites.

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By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:59:46 +0000

This sounds great D’Arcy – I really need to get my head around it, as a project I’m working on at the OU called social:learn is aiming to do a similar thing (see http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2008/02/the-sociallearn.html). I expect there will be more than one way to skin this cat. Maybe we need an eduglu workshop?
Martin

By: Bill Fitzgerald

Bill Fitzgerald — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:25:27 +0000

I suspect that, using the FeedAPI, token based authentication would work without a hitch, but that http authentication does not yet work.

However, I have not tested this — if you want to text the token authentication piece, install the TokenAuth module on the eduglu site, and I’ll try and pull a feed from one of our test sites.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:26:29 +0000

This is one baaad project, sucka! Wait, is that _Shaft_ or BA Baracus?

Don’t think it will make a difference, but the FeedAPI parser doesn’t do auth feeds, only the Aggregation module (at least, according to: http://groups.drupal.org/node/4547)

I think the social ranking stuff is important– there might not be enough volume to sort out a mass of public entries, but within a class, the model shown by Cole in his class seems like it could be fruitful.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:36:56 +0000

@doug: you’re probably right, in that the social ranking function is likely not _necessary_ – especially for a smaller site. It could really make the difference on a larger site though, and I think the algorithm used to determine what’s front-pageworthy is where the magic lays there…

@bill: great post. I’m going to think about it a bit before responding