sarahintampa

File this under “why didn’t I think of this sooner?” - I’ve just added a FriendFeed Comments widget to my blog (see sidebar to the right, beside Recent Comments). In lieu of an actual Wordpress plugin, a FriendFeed comments widget will help me and my readers keep tabs on my blog’s activity on FriendFeed - who commented on a post on FriendFeed, who liked it, etc. Of course, you’ll also see comments for other types of FriendFeed sharing, too, like shared items in Google Reader, but I guess that’s why we need a Wordpress plugin!

You can make your own FriendFeed widget for your blog, too, in just a few steps:

1. First, go to Dawn Foster’s excellent Yahoo Pipe, the “FriendFeed Comment Finder” and enter your FriendFeed username.
2. Choose to the “More Options” feature to grab and RSS feed.
3. Next, go to the web site of your favorite blog RSS widget (I used WidgetBox’s Blidget) and build a widget you can embed on your blog.
4. If you are using WidgeBox’s Blidget, you’ll also need a URL for the FriendFeed logo, so I uploaded the logo to flickr here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/2357734221_1ef23b7c35_t.jpg.
5. Finally, grab the embed code and put it on your blog wherever you want the widget to display.

This will have to do for now. Thank goodness for RSS!

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  December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Louis Gray
  Check her example out in the right sidebar...
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  December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Rick Turoczy
  Very cool! It's great to see this extension of Dawn Foster's Pipe.
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  December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Bwana McCall
  Thank you so much for this. Using on my blog now. Great job!

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