FriendFeed Comments Widget for Your Blog
Sarah Perez on March 24th, 2008
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:
- First, go to Dawn Foster’s excellent Yahoo Pipe, the “FriendFeed Comment Finder” and enter your FriendFeed username.
- Choose to the “More Options” feature to grab and RSS feed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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Interesting widget, though it seems like a lot of work to set up.
You may also want to check out The BlogCatalog News Feed widget:
http://blog.blogcatalog.com/announcements/30/
It will grab all data from your social communites and place it in the widget allowing your readers to keep tabs on, and subscribe to, your activities.
daniel / blogcatalog
Hi Sarah,
I published an article today on how to find and install the unofficial, beta FriendFeed widget. I also show an example of it.
http://www.widgetbeat.net/inde.....ed-widget/
Thanks,
Al
This is a test from Joe
Nice blog, i have added it to my favourites, greetings