Social networking application development

Abstract

The most recent explosive growth on the World Wide Web (WWW) is social networking. It focuses on building online communities of people who sharing of interests and activities amongst people. Two of the important social networking tools Facebook API and Google OpenSocial, are implemented on popular social networking sites like Facebook.com, Frienster.com and Orkut etc. A study will be first carried out on the two social networking tools to learn more about its advantages and uses. Through it, the project aims to develop a social networking application using one of the social networking tools. Using Open Source tools like Unified Modelling Language (UML), Eclipse and cPanel, the project builds an interoperable and extensive social networking application. The developed application's main focus will be providing social interactivity among student users in Singapore. The application will allow students to post their part-time job experiences in the application, making it available to every user visiting the hosted website. With the widespread distribution capability, the application will be able to reach students all over Singapore.