Widgets Galore
I just widgetized motoChristo by integrating Twitter and LinkedIn widgets. Facebook’s is up next but for now I will say that I am not very impressed with either.
My main gripes thus far are…
A.) the display is not at all customizable for LinkedIn and barely customizable for Twitter (only a choose a web-safe color theme). For instance I’d love to change the shape of the Twitter widget to be a long rectangle instead of a bulky square.
B.) neither API’s allow you to pull certain sets of content instead of their guessed version of the data I want. For instance, what I really want from LinkedIn is to be able to display my personal LinkedIn “Recommendations” (recommendations from others about me) on my site.
Oh well, at the rate these things are moving, I wouldn’t be surprised if I could get what I want within the year. In the mean time I’ll keep looking and hopefully FaceBook or some enterprising widget-aggregator will provide the flexibility I want.
You can check them out in action in motoChristo’s about section.
LinkedIn’s Widget API
Twitter’s Widget API