Find My Friends module

drupalina - November 8, 2008 - 18:44

Hi all drupal-gurus,

I'm wondering if people can point me in the direction of a module that will help people find their existing real-life friends by checking their existing Hotmail, Gmail, Facebook or any other e-mail account??? A feature that we see as a standard 2nd step after registration in Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter and a 1000+ other websites..

I'm running a community-driven website, which has some social networking features.

But this is what I notice: people create their account and then don't know quite what to do. Very often they'll go to "Community" link which is nothing more than something like www.drupal.org/profile -- they go there in search of people they already know. This is what we humans do when we first walk into a room full of strangers: look for someone we already know in real life.

I'm wondering if there is a module that will let you enter your e-mail username, choose the e-mail provider (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo and why not Facebook), let you enter your password, and then go out there into user's e-mail addressbook, or Facebook friends list, get those e-mail addresses, compare these e-mail addresses with those of the already registred users, and finally present you with a list with an avatars, usernames on the site and their "real names" in the e-mail addressbook ... with an option to "+ Add to my Friends" (integration with Buddylist or User Relations).

Is there such a module??? It's really one those features that is a MUST on any site full of strangers.

The module that I found to be closest to this kind of behaviour is DCL_importer, BUT, it's in .dev, it doesn't look like it has been updated in a long time, it's results interface is NOT intuitive and NOT user-friendly, AND is only for fetching the e-mail's addressbook and inviting new members.

thanks a lot for any help or tps you can give!!!

great idea!

zilla - November 8, 2008 - 21:29

and of course, the logical next step is to integrate with invitations (simple ones or trackable like with invite module)

could be a feature request for 'invite module' imho...though ask nicely, they're busy...

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sounds like a module that

mm167 - November 9, 2008 - 03:38

sounds like a module that send "I am here .." PM to other member on his/her MSN (or others) buddy list.

interesting..

but there is a basic issue ...

if u want the Drypal module to get your, say MSN buddy list, u have to give your password to the module.

this is a security issue. ...;-(

 
 

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