I’ve noticed that there is a lag between my post being published and it showing up in FF (From Michel Arrington’s stream):
I’ve actually noticed that this is becoming the exception rather than the norm slowly but surely:
Nevertheless I wrote a plugin for Windows Live Writer that automatically posts a link to FriendFeed every time I publish a post. In fact the link in the above picture ws posted using this plugin
Since I’ve never written a WLW plugin I used the Twitter Notify plugin that is included as part of the SDK as a springboard. You might notice that there is very little code left of the original.
Since it uses the new SDK feature unavailable in WLW 2.0, you’ll need the WLW 3.0 CTP for this plugin to work.
You can get it from Codeplex here.
It will ask you for your FriendFeed username and Remote Key as well as a preamble to accompany the posted link. This is set, by default, to “Blog Post”. As you can see mine is set to “New Blog Post”. All these settings can be changed from the Plugins page of WLW options.
Suggestions are welcome as are bug fixes, etc.
The plugin is working well for me and I’ve encountered no issues, other than WLW taking slightly longer to start up ( this could be a CTP issue).
I currently thinking of:
- Putting a link to the discussion on FF in the post( as far as I can tell this would require a re-write)
- Linking to FF when you Update the post
Anyone else got any ideas?
Random Musings 