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django-friendly: New template tags for FriendFeed data

Just a friendly (ho!) update on some of the things I've added to my FriendFeed Django application, django-friendly recently. I needed a way to pull out all the media from an entry. As I mentioned in my original post, getting at that stuff was a nasty mess of object attributes in your templates, so I set out to fix that. To that end I've created a few media-related tags. The first is get_friendfeed_media_list get_friendfeed_media_list This is very straightforward as it works just like comments and likes. You might use it in this manner (see second line): {% get_friendfeed_media_list for [friendfeed_id] ...

Site converted to django-friendly: FriendFeed integration

I posted about it on Twitter this afternoon, but I finally succumbed to the FriendFeed trend and I'm going to let them do the hard work of aggregating my life stream and normalizing it. Honestly, I don't need to fight the never-ending battle of scraping and parsing a billion feeds when a company flush with cash and smart people can do it for me, right? :) What's great is that they provide a fabulous API and so I took some time yesterday to build a Django application I call django-friendly that you can pop into your site to integrate everything ...

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FriendFeed is a site that lets you view something like your "Friends Feed" on Facebook but for all of their online activities! Here's my page, add me! http://friendfeed.com/clint

Posted on: 2008 February 26

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