James Williams' Blog

Given that Twitter is flaky as of late, I’ve decided to replace the Twitter badge on my blog to a Friend Feed badge. Friend Feed does has less users but the aggregation of services gives you a better feel for the personality and likes/dislikes of your friends. After a quick google search to confirm there wasn’t one out there already, I decided to take the afternoon and make one so I can flex my newly acquired jQuery skills.

It’s inspired by the many "put your twitter feed on your blog" posts there are floating around. 

Edit: There is a FF-sponsored widget, wonder why Google didn't find it. I prefer simplicity and not all out gradienty-web2.0-ness anyways

To install: 

1. Download the friendfeed.js script.

2. Include the following call in your document.ready(...) script:
  

 getFeed("your-username",number-of-entries-to-list); 

3. Include this div somewhere in you layout code:
 

<div id="friendfeed_div">

  <h3 class="ff-title">Friend Feed Updates</h3>

   <ul style="list-style-image:none;list-style-type:none"                         id="ff_update_list"></ul>

</div>

See bottom of page to see it running live.

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