Begun by others, we salvaged & enhanced this social network startup

Lookabooka is an entertainment social media network and shopping site. It’s also a project we picked up after other web developers gave it an unsuccessful try.

To preserve as much of Lookabooka’s investment, we continued working within the original framework of Social Engine, a PHP/Smarty-based product for rapid social-network site development. We extended this to incorporate more features, implementing the entire News module using a Django-based web service connected to APIs created by News Gator to mimic that site’s features.

In implementing Lookabooka’s vision, we also added a widget based user interface written in JavaScript to let users move page elements on the screen, including a controller to show, hide, and resize widget windows.