For the coming blog upgrade, i’m planning to integrate some community services as well. Which means that when i write a post, it’ll automatically post a status on plurk and twitter, and a link on Facebook.

Plurk is by far the easiest to work with, it’s very plain and simple.

Twitter needs a bit more tweaking when it comes to retrieving responses to the ping tweet – i couldn’t figure a way to fetch a response chain, so i’ll have to fetch all the responses to my tweets and iterate through them looking for relevant responses with local javascript. Not to mention there are limitations as well so i’m not even sure it’ll work flawlessly for ever.

And Facebook, well Facebook is a nightmare. I’ve been reading the API documentation for an hour now and i still couldn’t figure out how to do something elementary as fetching comments and likes count on a link.

Of course i was hoping i could do all this on server-side with php, but considering how long these requests could take i’d rather not. Which means, no javascript, no community. Tough life.