Other site widgets

[denise]

suncat posted about a LibraryThing widget, and I know there are Last.fm, Twitter and Delicious widgets that people can add to their blogs, etc. I've been thinking about doing S2 modules for them all, where all someone has to do to configure them is provide their username (and password if necessary, etc), if they want to enable them for their journal; can anyone think of other services/sites/etc that would be interesting to have?

Comments

[chaosraven]

I can't think of other services but I think this will be an awesome addition!

[cesy]

Now I want an AO3 widget to link to your latest fic, complete with the standard icons.

[umadoshi]

Goodreads.com would be fun. ^_^

[jackalibis]

I second this one!

The Goodreads widget would be amazing to have (not to mention it has a bit of an issue with being on the profile (mine would be a prime example of this--I'm so far behind on learning code that I haven't even bothered to edit it to see if I can straiten it out).

Netflix would be an interesting one as well, if it's possible. I know that it runs primarily of the RSS information to work (though beyond that, I'm not really sure. I'm not sure if they even have an official widget).

For that matter, being able to add an RSS feed at all would be useful, as it would allow for a more visual linking to a secondary blog or similar RSS powered feed.

[matgb]

being able to add an RSS feed at all would be useful, as it would allow for a more visual linking to a secondary blog or similar RSS powered feed.

This, pretty much. I write stuff elsewhere fairly regularly, the ability to add a few feeds to the sidebar would be very nice.

And extra text boxes would be nice, fitting all into one, or hacking S2 layers, seems a bit OTT, got used to adding extras for client WP/Blogger setups.

[yvi]

We have a bug open for that, so this might be available in the future: http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1997 :)

[matgb]

Yay!

I like the way that's got lots of options for implementation in it; hacking in from a Syn account would work fairly well; if we're doing that, couldn't it take from any account? Then people with icon journals or similar could have a 'recent posts' thing.

Or even work it along similar lines to the 'recent activity' module for paid users?

[maschalismos]

Thirded.

[phoenixsong]

Yes!

[damned_colonial]

Ravelry!

[aunty_marion]

Seconded!

[anatsuno]

yes thirded!

[snakeling]

fourthed!

[java]

Fifthed!

[strangesequitur]

Sixthed.

Ravelry has widgets, but they're currently rather Beta and hackey and somewhat Wordpress/Blogger specific. I have one in use on the WP blog I never actually use, but keep as an excuse to fiddle with code.

Something pretty and S2 integratable would be so very win.

http://www.ravelry.com/wiki/pages/BlogWidgets has some info, but I suspect you have to be a member to see it, like every other Ravelry page. :D

[briarwood]

Any widgit to add an RSS feed would be fantastic.

[ilyena_sylph]

I'd love a pandora.com widget, not that I know thing one about how they work... I know it can talk to twitter and facebook, but other than that

[zeldaophelia]

This please! I know Last.fm is more common, but I don't use it. Instead I usually have Pandora going for at least eight hours a day.

[princess]

Same here!

[we_are_spc]

If there is Pandora, then there should be Jango, too. Jango.com is sometimes what I use instead, though we don'thave a user name there yet.

-A-

[ninetydegrees]

OT: I think Last.fm is also more common because people without American IPs can use it...

[melannen]

I can't think of anything in particular, but OMG, if you got a shows-the-covers LT widget working on DW, you would *make my year*.

A DeviantArt widget might be cool: I doubt I'd use it, but I bet some people would.

(And I agree on AO3 - either a your recently uploaded or a your recently bookmarked.)

(Actually a recent bookmarks on del.icio.us-type sites would be cool...)

[draigwen]

+1 DevArt

[lightgetsin]

I would love a Goodreads one.

[adelheid]

Seconding both Goodreads and AO3 as completely awesome.

[kyrielle]

Flickr. :)

[ellarien]

+1

[spasticat]

Seconded!

[shanaqui]

Goodreads.com, definitely.

[wishfulclicking]

I second the delicious and rss feed ideas. Maybe also something for twitter, unless that already exists.

[we_are_spc]

If there are widgets for fiction press and fanfiction.net, those might be useful, too.

Also for nanowrimo.org if there is one.

-Us

[beatrice_otter]

AO3 and LibraryThing widgets would totally make my year!

[akk]

How about one for www.jamendo.com - the community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses? They do offer blog widgets (http://www.jamendo.com/de/widgets/create) and having them integrable with the layout could be really cool! You have an awesome idea there. :-)

[kinetikatrue]

I know of people who wanted to be able to include the meebo widget and were disappointed when they couldn't. Possibly I'll think of a couple others in a bit, though.

[existence]

The fact that this is being worked on is pretty damn cool.

Uh, pretty much the ones you mentioned are the ones I'd use, plus the ability to aggregate RSS, so other then that, I am full of no ideas! ...Maybe Mibbit if you wanted to embed a IRC chatroom somewhere?

[turlough]

Delicious definitely!

[sky]

Seconding Delicious, Jamendo, and TWITTER. I've been dying to have that one since forever.

[ardhra]

Delicious and twitter, definitely.

[mark]

This is the entire point of OpenSocial. We can white-list applications so we don't end up with a Facebook-esque explosion, but we definitely should implement OpenSocial as opposed to manually make a billion widgets.

A little more work now, a loooooooooot of savings later.