WAI Project-Reputation on Facebook

After rethinking where the scope of this project may lead... I decided to simplify my idea, or perhaps reduce it to a manageable extent, at least for now.

So, what this means? I will focus on what the reputation for a person on facebook is. In order to do that, I selected four main factors that could initially determine this reputation of a person ('s contacts).

These are:

1) Diversity of a user's friendlist (i.e. gender, country,),

2) Amount of user's friends,

3) Frequency of contact (i.e. wall posts, comments)

4) User's activity (i.e status updates)

I will formalize (and normalize!) this flowchart implementing it with MySQL Workbench. This is still a very simple, ugly initial draft version. But I just wanted to conceptualize and visualize what WAI should do...

* Also, important to note, I tried using FQL nomenclature so that we assure the possibility of gathering data exists...

In any case,being the only one working on it, my time as a human is also limited, and I would be very happy if someone is interested in joining efforts on the development side of this project (Please, don't hesitate to contact me!)

Basing this work on the following references: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/

Social Media Club @Rensselaer

I would like to announce the starting of a club in the RPI Community that will help to advance social media literacy, as well as encouraging ethical behavior online, learn from media professionals, and share the lessons they have learned, and also advocate for revolutionary new teach methods utilizing social media.

This is going to be a great network not only for students , but also for anyone interested in Social Media!

Start following SMCEDU@Rensselaer on Twitter and Facebook!!

Hackathon at RPI !

I went to the first Hackathon of my life around 8,30pm! This one was supposed to last until 8 am next day. But of course, being my first time to experience a hackathon on a Saturday night. I could not conceive the idea of programming all night long on a Saturday night. So I left around 1 am ...

Nevertheless, despite all my skepticism (frustration perhaps too!), WAI project did move a bit further than before.

Above all, I learnt more about the intricacies of Facebook Graph API, and discovered that my best bet was to use FQL to obtain the information of each user's friends. Thanks to Bharath Santosh, another finding was Facebook's test console to try these queries.

But there seemed to be a problem with this platform because most of the queries fields came out as "null" values. After a bit of research, I found out that other people were having the same problem, and the conclusion is that this issue was a known bug of the test console.

At least, I wrote down and saved all the queries before I started testing them.

In addition, I started digging a bit more in depth and realized that perhaps my intentions to retrieve all friends of a user might need an "access token" for each of those friends....

In any case, like any other optimistic person, I was expecting to get my whole back-end project done in just a few hours... And that the "hackathon strength" was going to allow me to achieve it!! :) But the reality was different, like always, and so this represents the status of where I left.

For those who don't believe that either I attended, or that there even was a hackathon at all, please visit this album:

https://www.facebook.com/album.php?fbid=1619095961258&id=1352160625&aid=2068218

Courtesy of Mike Pinkowish, facebook representative, RPI grad.

Who am I? wAi Project

This is the idea mentioned on my last post altogether in a draft, small presentation...

And now is time also, to go for the first time to a Hackathon being sponsored by Facebook at RPI.

So, let's see how that goes... ! Hopefully I come up with some results.