FriendFeed now integrated with our Drupal site

For a while we were trying to find a way to integrate students' outside blogs and social services with our site.  The first module I tried (activitystream) really did not work well.  Now instead I have installed the FriendFeed module which is more reliable but depends on friendfeed.com, a third party service.  It is very popular however, and is not likely to go away anytime soon.

 

To add links to your outside blogs and other services, subscribe at http://friendfeed.com/ and then come back here and edit your profile.  You'll see a new "Outside Feeds" section.  Enter your friendfeed username there as well as the remote api key, which you can find here: https://friendfeed.com/account/api

 

Then you'll see a new "Outside Feeds" tab on your homepage, as you'll see on mine.  It's still not an ideal solution and many improvements could be made, but for now it's a nice option and better than nothing.

 

Incidentally, I recommend checking out the list of all the services that can be integrated with friendfeed.  There are a lot of great sites out there I wasn't aware of, such as goodreads.com for sharing what books you are interested in (or even forming online reading clubs, there are already some in Logan), and seesmic.com which lets you record videos right in your browser using your webcam, and you can respond to other people's videos, too.

 

Another nice feature that you'll notice in the preferences is that if you post to your blog here on this Drupal site, it should be posted on FriendFeed as well (this blog post will test that).