By Nitin on April 23, 2011
After four months of relatively slow development of Facebook-style Micropublisher (FBSMP), I am happy to tag the branch with 6.x-1.1 release. It might be the last release for this branch, as I would now be upgrading FBSMP to support the latest 6.x-3.x branch of Facebook-style Statuses. A lot of cool features are coming up with [...]
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By Nitin on December 25, 2010
After months of hard work and support from Isaac and Thomas, I am proud to announce the first stable release of Facebook-style Micropublisher (FBSMP). FBSMP allows user to share content such as links, videos, photos and documents along with their Facebook-style Statuses. It allows you to create a social networking site similar to Twitter, Facebook, [...]
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By Nitin on November 22, 2010
I worked on the module Facebook-style Micropublisher (FBSMP) for Drupal, this summer as part of the Google Summer of Code program mentored by Isaac Sukin. This module lets users publish content (links, images, videos and documents) in a stream, along with their Facebook-style Statuses (like on Facebook, or Twitter). When I say that I worked [...]
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By Nitin on March 3, 2010
Facebook-style Links (FBSL) provides the ability for users to attach and submit links along with their Facebook-style Statuses. Combined with Facebook-style Statuses (FBSS), the FBSL module provides an attach link form that loads via AHAH. Users can then attach a link with an (optional) thumbnail, title and description to their status. In the nutshell, it [...]
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By Nitin on March 3, 2010
Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) is the successor project for FeedAPI ImageGrabber to support the Feeds module. FIG parses the Item URL of each feed-item, downloads the appropriate image from the post and maps it to an image field in the node created by Feeds module for that feed-item. [Google Reader (with thumbnails) can be imitated [...]
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By Nitin on September 20, 2009
Updates: Feeds Image Grabber has been released to support the new Feeds module. (3 march 2010) Tutorial for Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) published. (6 march 2010) Demonstration Website is available here. (6 march 2010) I get a lot of requests for this, so here is a tutorial explaining the 3 W’s (What, Why and How) [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Drupal, feedapi, imagegrabber, module, tutorial