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New York Times comments on TimesPeople profiles

15Feb09

bill-j-timespeopleTimesPeople is a social network grafted on to the New York Times website that allows its members to recommend articles and blog posts and share these recommendations with other people in the network.

But these recommendations are divorced from the comments written by the same people. I thought these two things should be closer together, so I tapped into the New York Times API to bring the comments into TimesPeople.

You’ll need to install greasemonkey for FireFox first, and then you can grab my script and install that as well. Afterwards there will be a link on the left of TimesPeople pages that will allow you to load the comments into the page. There’s an example of what I’m talking about in the screenshot on the right, click to get it full size.

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