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Live Eye Public API:
I have just completed the first 3 public api’s for the live eye, complete with samples here on my blog (here). The current APIs allow you to:

• Get a summary of the minutes spent on each game type
• Get a listing of your most recent activities (max 10)
• and to Get a listing of your overall top activities with the ability to filter out game types that you dont want inlcuded

some final touches, and these will be opened up to any live eye user that wants to use them =)

Voice Plugin now contains:

• Most Recent Blog entry
• Badges
• and Top 5 games

It is starting to take up more and more space on my sidebar - I may end up storing it in a page for demonstration purposes. If I am going to actually release it as a tool that others can put on their blog, I need to include ways to customize which “chunks” are shown, and perhaps even some formatting of those chunks. It will probably be a while (if ever) before I provide the plugin for download - mostly because I am by far no PHP expert, but also this is the first time I have tried to create a plugin - and I definately have a great deal to learn.

it is starting to take up a bit more space on the sidebar then I personally want to give on this site at the moment - so for now I moved it down to the bottom of the sidebar. Edit the plugin has its own page now

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 =)