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Paul Buchheit
Have you added the FriendFeed widget to your blog yet? If not, why not? http://friendfeed.com/embed
Because I'm not my own host and WP doesn't support it :( - Mona Nomura
if we could embed our entire friendfeed page onto our site & have one click signup for non-friendfeed members. That would be superb. - Zee.
Paul - because WordPress templates frighten me. - Patrick Lightbody
Paul - did you fix the word wrap issue for comments? e.g. on my blog comments cascade across the column into the right margin - http://blog.infinitelymeta.com/reef-ta... not a big deal at all. just wondering. great work on the beta btw. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
you know what Paul - ignore what I said....apart from letting people sign up directly via the widget. Then my friends/family who aren't on friendfeed can comment directly plus you get a whole bunch of new 'non-techy' members. - Zee.
Does WP allow iframes? - Paul Buchheit
I tried a couple of times to get it to work, but even with setting the width, the comments still sprawled outside the border of the widget and looked ugly. - Jason Shultz from twhirl
Still using the original script on the front page, but did add 'Share on FriendFeed' to the Blogger post template today. Awesome. - MLx
i haven't because i'm trying to figure out where to put it on my blog. - Morgan
Not sure Paul. I'm using Chris Pirillo's Social Media theme. Not a WP guru myself. Willing to test though. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
FYI: Adding the widgets (other than the "Share on FriendFeed" link) to self-hosted WordPress requires zero knowledge of WordPress templates. You login to WordPress, click on "Design", then "Widgets", and add a "text" widget and paste in the code. - Benjamin Golub
No because my blog sidebar is too narrow and changing the widget width cuts the text off mid-line. May redesign my blog one day when I'm bored. - Deborah Fitchett
I did, before Godaddy lost the location of my blog they host and I can't get it back :( - Johnny
I had it on my old site design, just added it to my latest. Thanks for the reminder. - Jack&Cleo
I just did the other day when someone posted the link here on FF. It rocks, thx. - Victoria Plautia
Yes - to http://www.ad2025andbeyond.com - with summary feed from 3 friendfeed rooms I can easily share links to. - Justin Long
I'll check it out after work! Thanks! - Ron
can you remove the border from the widget? And is there a way to make the background of the widget transparent? - Zee.
I did it. I would like some CSS options right in the widget editor--colors, fonts, etc. :D - Josh
how Josh? - Zee.
remove the border: .friendfeed.widget { border: 0 !important; } - Benjamin Golub
No JS http://faq.wordpress.com/2007... and no iframes http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic... on WordPress.com Sadly no flash embedding support either unless WP.com adds support for a site: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006... - EricaJoy
I have, well, not my blog, but my "main page": http://www.xs4all.nl/~pkleiw... - ˈpɛbə
I have had it on my blog for ages and it is great see http://www.loiclemeur.com - Loic Le Meur
awesome, thank you Benjamin. No way to make the background transparent is there? Or is that not poss? - Zee.
To answer the question, yes I do, but I haven't switched to the new one. :) - EricaJoy
Zee: try .friendfeed.widget { background-color: transparent !important; }. Anything's possible :) - Benjamin Golub
Last time I tried to fit it in a 160px sidebar I couldn't make it look good. Is it time to retry? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
I like the old one better :P - Shey
hell, yeah! both on the main page and a dedicated page :) http://www.c4chaos.com/hyperst... - ~C4Chaos
dang, no luck - thanks all the same Ben - Zee.
I didn't like what it looked like. - Andrew Leyden
For some help, see http://friendfeed.com/e... - ˈpɛbə
I just added mine to http://www.virtualbirdseye.com - don't know if I like it or not... We'll see how I can fit it in better. - Virtual Bird's Eye from twhirl
Used it as an experiment in the 'blog that posted itself' recently. Great. Now I'd like to use it in sidebar as widget. Can't change text size tho'. Too big. - Kate Foy
Ditto Loic - but switched to the newer wider one. Would love to be able to do like 7 or 8 in instead of 5 OR 10. Try to keep the stream clean there for others. Think 7 would be perfect but one size doesn't fit all :) - Charlie Anzman
you can do different numbers, just change the num= variable. I use num=12 - Justin Long
@Peter thank you! - Zee.
I don't feel like my friendfeed content meshes very well with my blog. I enjoy friendfeed quite a bit, but I don't really feel the need to try to get more people to look at my friendfeed. I did try it a couple months ago before it was really public, when I noticed it on your blog, Paul. I do use the friendfeed comment plugin. Maybe I will add a share on friendfeed button. - Robert Felty
Nope - hosted wordpress.com doesn't allow widgets - Hutch Carpenter
Absolutely, I've had the widget on the blog for about a month. KnowtheNetwork.com - Keith - @tsudo
nope, because I made my own version ;) - Pascal
I did install it but I don't really like its size. I'd like something narrower and with a smaller font. I don't know if this is something I can fix with CSS magic, but that's not my thing. - Robert Konigsberg
From my point of view: How exactly would it help the readers of Blogoscoped? What's the problem it would solve? Not everything I say on Friendfeed is relevant to the content of Blogoscoped. Now, give me a widget that I can customize to make it be relevant just to a single specific blog post and I will give it a try perhaps... an RSS feed for "comments on URL xyz" (where I can make xyz be a Blogoscoped permalink of a new post) would be interesting :) - Philipp Lenssen
+1 to Philipp. The only widget I have on my blog is delicious tags, and I'm not even sure that's useful to my readers. - Amit Patel
It works perfectly! scott-paterson.com - Scott Paterson
I've been using Evan's widget but it seems to have stopped updating... (see http://www.cosmictap.com) - Anthony Citrano
Word wrap issue for comments. Will that be fixed? - Dennis Metzcher
thanks @Benjamin Golub for the removing of the border code. worked great. - Thom Allen
I would use it if only for one thing: the word wrap issue with comments. - Ryan Stanley
Just added it to www.woodysworld.tv under What's the Word. Carries my Twitter, Flickr, Youtube and Pandora. Customized CSS. I'll be changing title to "My Friend Feed" - Jim W
When will the fact that the comments do not wrap when using the widget on my site be corrected? Please update us. :) - Dennis Metzcher
Dennis: that is by design so that long comments don't cause the widget to be super long in narrow places. You can make comments wrap with this CSS: .friendfeed.widget .feed .entry .comment { white-space: normal !important; } - Benjamin Golub
Yes, but I just moved it to the sidebar (it was on the bottom, because the comments weren't wrapping). I am not fond of the background color, and I don't know what to do with the CSS. http://miniaturemage.blogspot.com - MiniMage, enterRUPPted
when i use the css to wrap comments, at the beginning of each line of the comment there displays a different 'comment' symbol. very weird. - Patrick
I've just learnt of this today and already adapted it to my Google Blogger, but I find I can't embed it on wordpress.com blog. Pity. It's something that would greatly add to blogs. - George Hall (Australia)
Hi George: you should be able to embed the image versions of our widgets on your wordpress.com blog. Just pick "Image" as the format. - Benjamin Golub from email
Building43 is going to go even further than a simple embed. More later. - Robert Scoble
I'm in the middle of developing my personal site but here is my embedded widget - I customized a bunch of the CSS as well - http://mikebracco.com/aggrega... - Mike Bracco
I've added Friendfeed widgets to the About pages of coverbrowser.com and sketchory.com ... it's displaying feedback in regards to the site. - Philipp Lenssen
"Why not?" Good Question. No blog is The Answer. - ianf ⌘
See Real Time Blogging with FF -> http://getanewbrowser.com/2009... - andy brudtkuhl
I would like my Friendfeed page to sit in place of my blog on my website, but none of the widget styles are close enough for that (and iframing my Friendfeed page is a little much). - Glen Murphy
This is back? I have my FF profile on the blog. An embedded widget would likely take up too much space. - Louis Gray
I wanted but simplicity matters, so took it back. - Burcu Dogan
Not sure. But I have helped others embed (example http://bebepool.com/arthur ) their own feed into one of my online services (http://bebepool.com - which, over the past 3 months, had 4% of new pool accounts try to use the ff embed feature. The success rate of signing up for ff then plugging in the new user account into their bebepool settings and also not marking their account Private (which defeats the embed) is a lot lower. I'd gladly take suggestions on how to automate the signup/config routine to improve the usability). - Micah
The widget pretty much *is* my homepage: http://thomas.wittek.me/ - Thomas
@Thomas very cool homepage - ˈpɛbə
Yep, for ages now. - Kate Foy
because it's style is not letting to change, My blog is not blue :) - Okeane