Well, FriendFeed released their API yesterday, along with pre-written php & python libraries.  It’s a really good API, got access to all the data you see on the site.  So I’ve written up a WordPress plugin that will pull back comments from FriendFeed & show them on your site.  This plugin will allow you to display on your own site the comments that people make on FriendFeed about your post. 

I keep trying to think of a more succinct way of writing that but I can’t.  I always sounds more confusing than it is. See the plugin page for more details, this is an early beta I can’t stress that enough.  It will have bugs, it may very well break. 

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Anyone who is willing to help beta test would be very welcome, you can download the zip file here. Unzip that into your plugins folder & activate it.  You’ll then need to go into the options (or settings if you’re running WP2.5) and click on FriendFeed.  Put your FriendFeed nickname in & save.  You’ll then need to drop the new template tag <?php wp_ffcomments(); ?> on to your single post template somewhere inside ‘the loop’.  I put mine just above the <?php comments_template(); ?> call.

Much thanks to Corvida for being my first guinea pig tester.  It seems to be working on her site, and she gets a lot of comments!