Ian Blackburn

FriendFeed

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Simple FriendFeed C# User Control

We use a simple Friend Feed user control on our home page.  We have found this a great way to share "filtered" information that is relevant to our customers.  What we have done is created a FriendFeed account called bbits, which we share things into (via google reader and other feeds).  The user control then picks the friendfeed up and displays this in a gridview. When we did this FriendFeed didn't have any widgets, which they do have now, (and here) so if you prefer to use those rather than a c# user control go visit those...

Silverlight and FriendFeed

Since FriendFeed has produced an api I thought it would be fun to produce a little Silverlight app or control that could consume it. I thought this would be as simple as the digg example given in the Silverlight Quickstart - and it should be! Unfortunately the guys at FriendFeed have not added a crossdomain.xml or  clientaccesspolicy.xml which stops Silverlight (and Flash for that matter) from making cross boundary calls to their api. Took me a while to figure it out, so hope this helps someone. Moreover I hope FriendFeed fix this one quick snap! Cheers Ian Technorati Tags: Silverlight,FriendFeed,crossdomain