FriendFeed Comments is a plugin for Movable Type that enables you to import and display comments made using FriendFeed on your entries. You can also use the plugin to enable your blog commenter to "Cc." their comments to FriendFeed (if they have a FriendFeed account).
Background: FriendFeed Comments
FriendFeed is service that enables you aggregate and share your stuff from many other web sites, all in one place. Your feed can pull in your blog RSS feeds, photos from Flickr, videos from YouTube, tweets from Twitter, and many more.
Each item in your feed -- whether it is a blog entry or tweet -- can be commented on by other FriendFeed users.
Some great discussions about blog entries can happen on FriendFeed. The only problem is that those conversations are off-site and separated from the entry published on your blog. One of the goals of the FriendFeed Comments plugin is to bring those comments back to your published blog entry, displaying them with on-site blog comments.
Features
Version 1.0 of the FriendFeed Comments plugins includes the following features:
- Checks all types of FriendFeed items for comments on your entries. Usually, comments on FriendFeed happen on the RSS item from your entry. Some comments, however, happen on the Twitter message you posted to announce the entry. The plugin aggregates these all these comments by checking all items in the feed.
- Imports the comments as real MT comments. After importing, comments appear in the admin area just like other comments. Comments are displayed interspersed with on-site comments, displayed in chronological order.
- New template tags can be used to highlight FriendFeed comments (more info below)
- High perfomance, does not slow publishing. FriendFeed comments are imported via an MT scheduled task, running every 15 minutes in the background.
- Check multiple FriendFeed user's feeds for comments. Useful for multi-author blogs and other advanced uses.
- On-blog commenters can optionally Cc. their comments to FriendFeed. In addition to posting the comment on your blog, the comment will also be posted to item in your FriendFeed. Also, the comment will be posted as an item in the commenter's feed, so they can share the comment (and link) with followers of their feed.
Working Example: ReadWriteWeb
This plugin was suggested by Richard McManus and Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb, and inspired by the FriendFeed Comments plugin for Wordpress, by Glenn Slaven. I have installed the plugin for ReadWriteWeb and it is now running, importing comments from FriendFeed and enabling commenter to Cc. FriendFeed. Check out the entries at http://www.readwriteweb.com/. Please don't post "test" comments there, you can use the live demo for that...
Live Demo
If you have a FriendFeed account, you can try out the plugin right now:
Click here to access the live demo for FriendFeed Comments.
Requirements
- MT4+
- JSON 2.x Perl module (included)
- Net::FriendFeed Perl module (included)
- Remote Comments Schema plugin (included)
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This plugin is free to members of MT Hacks.
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Installation
- Download and expand the zip file.
- Upload the contents of the 'plugins' folder to the 'plugins' directory of your MT.
- Upload the contents of the 'extlib' folder to the 'extlib' directory of your MT.
- Upload the contents of the 'mt-static' folder to the 'mt-static' directory of your MT.
- Login to MT and go to the blog you want. Go to Tools > Plugins and choose FriendFeed Comments and then Settings. Enter the FriendFeed username(s) of the feed(s) that contain links to your blog entries. Save the settings.
- Ensure that scheduled tasks are running, ideally via cron job. Click here for more info. Comments will only be imported if scheduled tasks are running.
- (Optional) Modify your templates using the new template tags described below. If you are using the new MT4-style templates, you probably want to edit the "Comment Detail" template module.
- (Optional) Modify your comment form to enable on-site commenters to Cc. their comments to FriendFeed. You need to add two fields named friendfeed_user and friendfeed_remote_key. If you want to use the code shown on the demo entry, you can download this template module and include it.
Template Tags
FriendFeed Comments adds the following new template tags:
- <MTIfFriendFeedComment> - A conditional tag that is true if the comment exists on FriendFeed.
- <MTIfFriendFeedEntry> - A conditional tag that is true if the entry in context has been found on FriendFeed.
- <MTFriendFeedEntryLink> - A URL to the item for the entry on FriendFeed.
- <MTFriendFeedIconURL> - A URL to the small FriendFeed icon.
Example usage, place before the commenter's name:
<MTIfFriendFeedComment><a href="<MTFriendFeedEntryLink>" target="_blank" title="Posted on FriendFeed">
<img src="<MTFriendFeedIconURL>" align="left" alt="Posted on FriendFeed" /></a> </MTIfFriendFeedComment>
As always, feedback is welcome.
Comments (28)
Brilliant!
Thanks Mark - A few days I was wondering if this exact thing could be implemented. I'm not surprised that you tackled it.
Thanks,
Jason
Posted by macbort
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June 26, 2008 11:58 AM
Posted on June 26, 2008 11:58
Mark, the closer I look at this the more impressed I am - great work and thanks for setting it up for us!
Posted by Marshall Kirkpatrick | June 26, 2008 4:01 PM
Posted on June 26, 2008 16:01
should the plugin work for dynamically published entries and archives or does it require static publishing? I had a FF comment imported successfully but when I tried to add in the code snippet above to place the FF icon before the author's name, I ended up getting
Smarty error: [in evaluated template line 32]: syntax error: unrecognized tag 'mtiffriendfeedcomment' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 580)
showing up in the entry (my archives are dynamically published)
Posted by imabug
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July 1, 2008 11:36 AM
Posted on July 1, 2008 11:36
i should also add that the same thing happened with the FF template module I MTIncluded into the Comments module.
Posted by imabug
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July 1, 2008 2:11 PM
Posted on July 1, 2008 14:11
I've just implemented this into one of my sites and I must say that I really like it. One thing I noticed is that at least with the minimal testing I've done is that it seems to take forever to post using Ajax Comments. The comment gets posted on the blog but it just sits there spinning since it's connecting to FriendFeed I guess.
Posted by rm_blogger
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July 4, 2008 5:23 AM
Posted on July 4, 2008 05:23
Now I'm getting this error:
Error during task 'Import FriendFeed Comments': JSON version 2 required--this is only version 0.99 at /home/rmiles/public_html/cgi-bin/mt/extlib/Ne t/FriendFeed.pm line 133
Posted by rm_blogger
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July 8, 2008 4:13 PM
Posted on July 8, 2008 16:13
Ignore that last one. I updated JSON through my cpanel and then copied it over to extlib. Working great now! Thanks.
Posted by rm_blogger
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July 8, 2008 5:19 PM
Posted on July 8, 2008 17:19
imabug, the template tags listed above will only work for static publishing, but the comment importing should still work. Dynamic support for the template tags may be added in a future version.
rm_blogger, the FriendFeed connection is coded to happen in the background, BUT you must have background tasks enabled in MT. If you do not have background tasks enabled, it will add some processing time when comments are posted. In my tests, comment posting wasn't taking *forever* ;), but thanks for the report.
Posted by Mark Carey
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July 28, 2008 1:51 PM
Posted on July 28, 2008 13:51
mark this plugin is very good, but can you improve that? users can like post from blog or other furthers?
Posted by Pouya
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August 22, 2008 11:19 PM
Posted on August 22, 2008 23:19
mark i reported a bug in this plugin last week, see this: http://uploads.screenshot-program.com/my.php?image=upl4326638724.jpg
this is a problem with utf-8 characters!
Posted by Pouya
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August 23, 2008 12:04 AM
Posted on August 23, 2008 00:04
Not sure how long this has been showing up in my activity log but it is new to me.
Error during task 'Import FriendFeed Comments': Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /home/blah-blah-blah/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/F riendFeedComments/lib/FriendFeedComments/Util .pm line 32.
Posted by rm_blogger
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September 23, 2008 8:35 PM
Posted on September 23, 2008 20:35
I meant to mention in the above comment, I am running MT 4.2
Posted by rm_blogger
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September 23, 2008 11:21 PM
Posted on September 23, 2008 23:21
I've just implemented this into one of my sites and I must say that I really like
Posted by شات صوتي | March 30, 2009 8:40 PM
Posted on March 30, 2009 20:40
I've just implemented this into one of my sites and I must say that I really like
Posted by دردشة صوتية | April 7, 2009 6:03 PM
Posted on April 7, 2009 18:03
I've just implemented this into one of my sites and I must say that I really like
Posted by دردشة | July 7, 2009 5:02 AM
Posted on July 7, 2009 05:02
Thanks Mark
I meant to mention in the above comment
Posted by شات صوتى | July 31, 2009 5:27 PM
Posted on July 31, 2009 17:27
I've just implemented this into one of my sites and I must say that I really like
Posted by مركز تحميل | August 1, 2009 9:05 AM
Posted on August 1, 2009 09:05
:) nice
Posted by غيور | August 1, 2009 9:07 AM
Posted on August 1, 2009 09:07
I've just implemented this into one of my sites and I must say that I really like
http://www.t7b.com/dlil
Posted by دردشة | August 3, 2009 6:51 PM
Posted on August 3, 2009 18:51
Not sure how long this has been showing up in my activity log but it is new to me
http://www.t7b.com/dlil/show80156.html
Posted by دردشة الشلة | August 3, 2009 6:51 PM
Posted on August 3, 2009 18:51
I've just implemented this into one of my sites
Posted by شات | August 6, 2009 7:30 PM
Posted on August 6, 2009 19:30
hi
I've just implemented this into one of my sites and I must say that I really like
نزف
Posted by نزف | November 18, 2009 4:03 AM
Posted on November 18, 2009 04:03
I've just implemented this into one of my sites and I must say that I really like
Posted by tuba buyukustun | November 19, 2009 8:08 AM
Posted on November 19, 2009 08:08
One thing I noticed is that at least with the minimal testing I've done is that it seems to take forever to post using Ajax Comments.
Posted by Anonymous | January 5, 2010 11:29 PM
Posted on January 5, 2010 23:29
I had a FF comment imported successfully but when I tried to add in the code snippet above to place the FF icon before the author's name, I ended up getting
Posted by Anonymous | January 5, 2010 11:31 PM
Posted on January 5, 2010 23:31
One thing I noticed is that at least with the minimal testing I've done is that it seems to take forever to post using Ajax Comments.
Posted by magazin | January 19, 2010 9:21 AM
Posted on January 19, 2010 09:21
I've done is that it seems to take forever to post using Ajax Comments.
Posted by cicekci | February 12, 2010 7:54 PM
Posted on February 12, 2010 19:54
Any plans to do a similar plug-in for Google Buzz?
Posted by Travis Spencer | February 19, 2010 2:57 AM
Posted on February 19, 2010 02:57