The ffcheck bookmarklet gives you a quick way to find out if there are any existing items on FriendFeed related to the web page you're viewing. Simply drag the bookmarklet onto your bookmarks toolbar, then whenever you click the link a list of FriendFeed items will be overlaid onto the page you're viewing. - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

coooooooooool - Dobromir Hadzhiev

perfect! - Patrik Johansson

is there a way to go through my contacts only? - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Dobromir: Not that I know of. It's not authenticating at all, i.e. it has no idea who you are. In fact, you don't even need to be a FF user to use it. I don't know if the API allows you to retrieve a filtered list. - Ken Sheppardson

Also, that sort of circumvents the intent. [ Well.. my intent at least :-) ] The idea is to promote discovery and connect you with folks you might not know otherwise. Rather than have 30+ people all start threads on an item (as shown in the screen shot), this lets you join the existing conversation instead of resharing something. Your Like or Comment will put it in your followers' stream without you having to reshare it. - Ken Sheppardson

so I though, I asked because feedly can do something very similar, but again it searches the whole friendfeed instead of the users home feed, anyway cool enough :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Just made a quick fix. Should work with Chrome now. - Ken Sheppardson

Brilliant thanks, Chrome needs it :) - M F

Another fix, and it works on Safari as well (all on Windows XP). IE7's being a bit more temperamental... - Ken Sheppardson

took me a minute to find the close 'button' maybe also a [X] in the upper right? - Chris Heath

Chris: Yeah, Micah suggested that earlier today. Just swapped the [close] out for an [x] in the upper right. - Ken Sheppardson

cool... i like ... this bookmarklet will come in handy - good work @kshep! - Chris Heath

I just grabbed ffcheck.com and moved this over to http://ffcheck.com, so if anyone is so inclined they can delete the bookmarklet that points to kshep.net and grab it again from there. - Ken Sheppardson

sweet! - laura

Great tool for discovering other FFers who are interested in a topic. You can click on entries within the page ffcheck produces. Or you can print the page. Well done, Ken Sheppardson. - Polly Potter

Thanks for posting this. It will come in useful to see who else on FF is talking about a link I find interesting. BTW, I like it better than the Feedly function. - Alexander Grundner

[edited] FF Share code can be found here: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... (this can also be found on friendfeed itself) - Chris Heath

[edited] FF Check code can be found here as well: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... (also can be found at http://ffcheck.com thanks to Ken) - Chris Heath

to clarify: the FF Share is the bookmarklet that the ff team developed (i guess) and the 'FF Check' is Ken's great bookmarklet - Chris Heath

and don't you love it when the code doesn't really make it in the comment box? - Chris Heath

ok so i went thru the trouble to make a page with both ff bookmarklets on it - totally 1990's html but here goes anyways: http://chrisheath.us/friendf... - Chris Heath

not sure why i did all that or when thru the 'trouble' to do it... if you're reading this years from now don't expect my links to be valid - Chris Heath

Does ffcheck still work? Just asking because I haven't gotten it to work in a few days, even after dumping cache (which usually fixes weird transient JS errors.) - Andrew C

I hope so. It's still useful to me. kshep, did you intentionally pull it down? ffcheck.com/javascript/ is 404'ing. Also is the code here: http://userscripts.org/scripts... a current or an old version? - Micah Wittman

No, I didn't pull it down... it's needed two clicks in my dev channel version of Chrome to work, but other than that it was cranking away... or so I thought... let me take a look... - Ken Sheppardson

nice! - .LAG liked that

Should be back. Sorry about that. - Ken Sheppardson

I should note that in Chrome 4 (My default browser...I'm on the dev branch) you have to click the bookmarklet twice. I've been putting off resolving that in the ffcheck code, but it's probably time to dig into it. - Ken Sheppardson

Great! Thanks, Ken. - Micah Wittman

The code at userscripts.org is pretty old. I branched off from that for the version that's hosted at ffcheck.com. As it says in the "About" page there on userscripts, it really just demonstrates how the API works. Honestly, I haven't touched this in forever. Y'all are going to make me try to remember how it works, aren't you? :-) - Ken Sheppardson

I always thought it should be a core part of the tool because it worked so well, too many fragmented discussions get started without it!! - Chris Myles

I think that in chrome you've had to click twice for a long while... since version 2 of chrome or something (i think) - oh and if you do mess with the code a bit of animation would be nice while it's loading... even if it's the most simple of blinking periods - just to indicate that it is working and not stuck - Chris Heath

Thanks Ken! - Andrew C