DRUPAL MODULES FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS – Part II

Facebook Status Module

This module is ideal for a single-user, personal site. The fbstatus module fetches your current Facebook status, using an individualized RSS feed provided by Facebook, and provides it as a block that you can display on your site, without entanglement with the RSS aggregator.

This Module is available for Drupal 5x & 6x

Jaiku Module

Jaiku is a micro blogging social networking service, similar to Twitter, which was recently acquired by Google. It allows you to post anything in 140 characters or less to a web page on jaiku.com. This module allows a Jaiku stream to be cleanly added in a block. The Full Stream, User Info, and the current presence information are supported.

This Module is available for Drupal 5x & 6x

Service Links Module

The service links module enables admin to add links to a number of social bookmarking sites, blog search sites etc. Included sites are: Buzz Yahoo, del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Furl, Google, IceRocket, LinkedIn, ma.gnolia.com, MySpace, Newsvine, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Twitter, Yahoo (some of them are just available in dev version for now!).

This Module is available for Drupal 5x & 6x

Dodge Module

The dodge module mimics the Twitter functionality in a very basic way. For each user a for in provided in a new category where he/she can set his state. State can be one of a list of predefined stated (provided by the webmaster) or a state typed in by the user in a free text box.

A history of user states is kept so you can always see what someone's states were some time ago. The size of the history can be set.

A few blocks are provided:

- Most popular dodges.

- Most recent dodges.

- On a profile page: the user's history.

- On every page: your own history (if you are logged in).

Available for Drupal 6x only

Bookmark US

The Bookmark Us Module allows visitors to quickly and easily bookmarking your web site, and the current page. This module is very flexible, and Works with IE, Opera, Firefox, Netscape, and other Gecko-based browsers.

Available for Drupal 5x & 6x