Benjamin Golub of RSSMeme got an early look at the FriendFeed API that was just released today and released what must be the first web app making use of the FriendFeed API: friendfeedstats.com
The app is still in its infancy, but already gives us a quick taste for how the FriendFeed API can be used. FriendFeedStats basically provides you with statistical information for how a given user uses FF. Here are the stats for me: http://www.friendfeedstats.com/frederic/
You can also drill down a bit more by selecting specific services and timescales. As of right now, FFStats indexes about half a million entries and was written using the Django Python framework.
Update: Glenn Slaven has also just hacked up a quick Wordpress plugin that displays FriendFeed discussions about a given Wordpress blog post on your blog. It’s not available yet, but you can see an example on his site (at the bottom of the post). Looks like the discussion about comment fragmentation is going to come to a screeching halt very soon.
Others are also already playing with posting and commenting on FriendFeed via the API.
Also see Corvida’s post with some of her ideas for some FriendFeed apps.
Technorati tags: friendfeed, api
Your link (the first one) to friendfeedstats needs a www
Thanks Charlie - it’s fixed.
Wow… that was a quick turn-around… cool app. API’s are so awesome… but I have to take this chance to bitch about something, of course (this is not directed at you, Frederic, but more at the faction of pathetic bloggers who actually have their fucking panties in a twist over the notion of “comment fragmentation”):
I’m left to wonder why, in all these years, nobody has accused Digg of “comment fragmentation”. Furthermore, all the bloggers who are crying and bitching about “give me MY comments” ALL have their blog plastered with the “Digg This” and “Subscribe to me” links on each and every page (and as soon as WordPress offers the friendfeed button they will add that too)… well guess what you, if you don’t want people commenting on your content somewhere other than your site, then pull the fucking buttons off and stop offering an RSS feed, DUH!!! God damn people can be fucking stupid. “Don’t comment at Digg, but Digg it still… then come back here and comment.” Piss off already… god, who needs this pretentious shit? Don’t people like that already know that many worthless bloggers have come and gone before them on that very train?? They need to get off at the next stop. period.
Ok… phew… i got that off my chest. i just really fucking hate the term “comment fragmentation”… it makes me want to break things, and that’s not ok.
“comment fragmentation” = George W. Bush would say that about offsite commenting, were he a blogger. (though he would egregiously mispronounce “fragmentation” it doesn’t change the fact that bloggers who cry over spilled comments are just pathetic… can’t they just all be like Frederic, happy that people are reading them? happy to be noticed and relevant? Some newbies just don’t get it… oh well, their loss. The web never forgets and she is a cruel punisher of hypocrisy.)