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I’ve added the FriendFeed Comments plugin, which shows activity on FriendFeed related to each post.

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I’ve released SlimFeeder 0.1, a simple open source native Cocoa client for FriendFeed. With SlimFeeder you can view your friends, your own items, and the public timeline.
Download SlimFeeder here or download the source here.

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Over the weekend I finally got a chance to work on a decent sample program for my Cocoa FriendFeed class, which I hope to release some time this week.
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FriendFeed has become very popular lately, in part due to Twitter’s unreliability. FriendFeed still can’t replace Twitter, since it can’t be accessed via SMS or IM, although FriendFeed can be more conversational, since you can comment on a particular item rather than just reply to the user as you do on Twitter.
A few days ago, [...]

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I just added a few small enhancements to my FriendFeed iPhone app. It now shows only 10 items per page and lets you view more items a page at a time. It also now remembers the login cookie for 30 days or until you log out.

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I’ve added some major enhancements to my FriendFeed web app (http://iphone-apps.net/ff). You can now add comments or like an item.
Clicking the ‘>’ at the bottom of an entry opens the comment form. Clicking the ‘+’ at the top of an entry marks that you like it. If you already like an entry, it will show [...]

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I’ve added a few enhancements to my FriendFeed App for iPhone. It now makes links clickable and shows comments.

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I’ve been getting really annoyed with FriendFeed on the iPhone, so I decided to whip up a quick web app. You can see the result at http://iphone-apps.net/ff. It only has minimal functionality – you can log in and view your friends, your items, or the public timeline.
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My FriendFeed cocoa classes are now fully functional except including media enclosures in posts. I ended up rewriting it to use NSXMLDocument rather than PSFeed, which doesn’t involve any more code and eliminates the dependence on PubSub.
Now that that’s done, I’m digging into the Pownce API. Pownce isn’t much more complemented, but it requires an [...]

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I’ve implemented posting in my Cocoa FriendFeed class, and I ended up rewriting the fetch methods to use a NSURLConnection rather than PubSub. I’m now using a temporary PSFeed object to parse the received data rather than maintaining PSFeed objects for all requested feeds. I could probably use a NSXMLDocument, but PSFeed seems cleaner.
Here’s [...]

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I’ve been playing with the FriendFeed API in Objective C, although I don’t have anything ready for public consumption yet.
Since the fetch methods basically work like RSS feeds, they can be handled easily using PubSub. Most of the code I had to write was to decode the entries returned into something more useful. The methods [...]

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