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Tutorial: How to build "Facebook Clone" using Dolphin

We've started preparing and publishing a set of tutorials which would help people get a deeper and better understanding of "what" and "how" they can do using Dolphin.

 

At this stage, we have started with the first one under the title: "How to build "Facebook Clone" using Dolphin".

 

The tutorial contains a general set of recommendations and directives using common sense, while some of the other details in this might require a very specific and individual approach.

 

To finalize, we kindly ask you to take your time examining it (it's not big), and post your opinions and/or criticisms in order to improve and update it accordingly.

 

How to build a Facebook-clone using Dolphin 7

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UFO360
UFO360•638 days ago
 
Thank's 4 sharing

but why you call this >> How to build "Facebook Clone" using Dolphin

This is how to get done your installation is nothing about facebook

Can you teach people how to make simple splash page for registration and login like the splash page facebook is using for sign up and login

Thank's a lot
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Nathan Paton
Nathan Paton•638 days ago
 
@UFO360: You must not have read it all the way.
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mods4dolphin
mods4dolphin•638 days ago
 
Amazing article and nice to see our mod in that list too :)

Those 2 sites look really really good...
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houstonlively
houstonlively•638 days ago
 
I am always perplexed when someone wants to build a site just like Facebook, or just like Myspace. Wouldn't it be a whole lot easier to just make a splash page with a link to the Facebook.com join form, or just use a permanent redirect to myspace.com?

Whatever happen to originality? Everybody want to be just like facebook. How would you advertise a facebook clone site. Would your ad slogan say, "We're just like Facebook, except we hardly have any members"? Sorry..... I just don't see more get it.
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PravoNetwork
PravoNetwork•638 days ago
 
Particularly when Facebook is preparing for war against similar social networking sites.
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JasonVan
JasonVan•638 days ago
 
I agree with houstonlively that it seems silly if someone wants to make an exact copy of Facebook. However, there is a market for this. There are a lot of people that would be willing to pay money to make a site like Facebook.

However, every now and then somebody makes a unique spin on the Facebook brand. Take for example Shagbook.com - I saw it the other day and thought it might have a chance of succeeding. It's already on the second page of Google for "Adult Dating".
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delmarcash
delmarcash•638 days ago
 
Reading the comments here I must respond. First, the reasoning behind cloning the look and feel of facebook has to do with comfort with users. The more familiar someone is with a particular software such as Microsoft's Windows or the look and feel of a social media site as facebook or myspace the more likely they will use it. Of course, a small percentage of the population will take the time or have a preference for a different program such as Apple or other aspiring social sites. As a user if i see more know where to go to maximize the benefits of a site I will use that site more likely. With all the different sites out do I really want to take the time to learn how to use a new site or figure out where everything is? So, by a web developer laying out a site similar to facebook or myspace they are maximizing comfort with users. Second, even though the article is called "how to make a site like facebook" the author should have said that it will require the PURCHASE of some mods and that the basic dolphin installation will not provide you with the tools to build a facebook clone. Facebook is so widely successful because it is simplicity at its finest and follows the "KISS" philosophy of sales: KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID. Simplicity can be a complicated thing to achieve and Facebook has mastered it. So, why wouldn't I as a developer want to learn from the best and maximize that knowledge.
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houstonlively
houstonlively•638 days ago
 
Show me one single successful facebook clone site, and maybe I'll change my mind.
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Nathan Paton
Nathan Paton•638 days ago
 
@houstonlively: I'm not sure of successful ones, but I can probabbly scrape up a list of clone sites that spent hundreds of dollars to mimic Facebook, only to fail horribly.

If someone wants to have the look and features of Facebook, they are not going to go to your site, they are going to go to Facebook. It's that simple.
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buckmcgoo
buckmcgoo•638 days ago
 
After reading this tutorial the owners of Myspace are busy installing Dolphin as we speak, haha.
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JasonVan
JasonVan•636 days ago
 
I noticed that shagbook.com has just made changes to their index page. It doesn't look quite as much like facebook now.
I wonder if facebook sent them a threatening letter...
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Andrew Boon
Andrew Boon•636 days ago
 
The idea here is not so much to help in building a Facebook clone, per se. This is a sample sequence of actions telling one how to put pieces together - change the look, apply modules, get extensions from Unity, change settings, etc. "Facebook-clone" is just like a comfort zone that lets people understand the process better and take it as an example when working on their own ideas.

We do not suggest that building a Facebook clone would be a great idea, it wouldn't. Knowing how to build see more a Facebook clone with Dolphin IS a great thing, though.
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houstonlively
houstonlively•636 days ago
 
How about teaching us how to clone the Facebook iPhone app... only for Dolphin.
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Profesize
Profesize•635 days ago
 
So will this tutorial show me how to have an instant messenger that can handle more than 10 people at a time without having to upgrade to a dedicated server equivalent to the likes used by Skynet or will it tell me how to make the instant messenger go "Ping!" when someone tried to contact me?

I bet it doesn't. lol
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Andrew Boon
Andrew Boon•635 days ago
 
re:How about teaching us how to clone the Facebook iPhone app... only for Dolphin.

Good idea! Will do.
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Andrew Boon
Andrew Boon•635 days ago
 
@Profesize

For performance, we are adding a new tutorial today. For "Ping" thing, not too sure what you mean, a sound alert for new messages?
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houstonlively
houstonlively•635 days ago
 
Andrew, did you develop the iPhone app in-house, or did you outsource it?
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gmrm
gmrm•634 days ago
 
We are still a long way from this, our site is http://carpbook.co.uk
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gmrm
gmrm•634 days ago
 
also we have found a number of mods in the boonex market are a load of rubbish, i wont mention these as i dont want to p*ss people off. Just be careful and do your research first :)
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Profesize
Profesize•634 days ago
 
Looking forward to the performance tutorial. Really hope there is something that can help. Re the "Ping" thing, yes I did mean a sound alert.
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