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FriendFeed Adds Widgets; Its Path to Mainstream?

Source: Mashable!

Aug 27, 2008

Summary

Lifestreaming service FriendFeed has launched a variety of widgets (available here) for showing off your activities on your own blog or website. The two most significant widgets are the Badge, which shows off all of the different services you’ve synced with the site, and the Feed Widget, which displays your most recent activities.

Personally I’m a big fan of the Badge concept (which has been tried previously by others), as it should make it super easy for people to connect with me on the various services I frequent, minus Facebook of course (unfortunately, it seems to break when I embed it here, but you can see it on the right or add me on friendfeed here).

There’s also a widget for showing your most recent status update (via Twitter or an alternative status service), a chiclet that simply links to your profile, and a “Share on FriendFeed” link you can use to encourage your readers to distribute your content on the aggregator.

While you could already do some of this on your own by using the RSS feeds that FriendFeed provides, the widgets are simply copy and p

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