Practical Rails Social Networking Sites
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Rails-Social-Networking-Experts/dp/1590598415
RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails
http://railsspace.com/
Building a Social Network Site in Rails By Jim Neath
http://jimneath.org/2008/04/25/building-a-social-network-site-in-rails/
Check out this book by O’rielly coming out called Web 2.0 Patterns: What entrepreneurs and information architects need to know. The resources below are the authors that put it together.
http://technoracle.blogspot.com/ – Check out Duane’s World TV show he’s putting out – great stuff.
http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/
http://web2.wsj2.com/
“…Social networking is not a new term, nor has it been widely applied to websites for more than a few years, yet it has clearly become one of the biggest buzz phrases of the Web 2.0 era. Nonetheless a great deal of confusion exists about just what makes a particular site an online social network. Of course, there’s more than one answer, but most of us know this type of site when we see one, so clearly there are some common features that must be easy to recognize…”
From AchieveInternet.com – “What makes Social Networking…”
“…To achieve this, one should seek to deliver innovative and relevant content formats which are easily discoverable by readers while eliminating repetition and duplication in news…”
From DoshDosh.com – How to Build a Better Content Model for Your Site: Understanding News Consumption Patterns
“The release of Drupal 6 isn’t the only big news in February — this week also marks the launch of a newly redesigned, Drupal-powered FastCompany.com! Fast Company Magazine has covered cutting edge business and tech industry news since the heady days of the early 90’s, and the massive redesign of the magazine’s site was a major undertaking for its publisher, Mansueto Digital.”
Check it out here.
Check out Fastcompany here.
Some other Drupal resources:
http://drupal.org/theme-guide