I was up much later then I care to admit working on a wordpress plugin. Not being extremely familar with PHP, or creating plugins added to the fact that what I decided to create uses a remote XML source, it was an interesting learning experience. The worse part about it is I had it completely working on my local test server and got a random CGI error here on the webhost. I modified the way I was parsing the XML and it seemed to resolve the problem. I might provide it for others as a download - if someone is looking for such a plug in. Currently the plugin generates a block for the 360voice Badges you have recieved. I might expand it to use some of the other API’s they provide.
This was mostly a learning experience so that I could get a better understanding on how to retrieve XML data from a remote source and use it in PHP - so that I can do so with some of the Live Eye APIs that I am currently building. The fact that I built it as a Wordpress Plugin - I just wanted to see if I could build one, and make it easier to integrate into my blog =)
Edit: well browsing the voice boards I found that the Bits Plugin all ready is a wordpress plugin that pulls up your blog entries, however it doesnt provide access to the badges - and it is having the same exact problems I was having on my first version of my plug in. I would guess this is something to do with the XML Parsing function, perhaps its not enabled on my hosting server or something like that - just letting everyone know that there is a plug-in all ready available that is similar to what I started here…..considering my PHP knowledge - it’s probably written a lot better =)