Show Off Your FriendFeed Subscribers with a New Widget

Alan Cheslow, a FriendFeed fanatic whose entire personal web site is built around the service, has just created a new widget which FriendFeed fans are definitely going to love. Unlike the official FriendFeed widgets that show off your stats or your feed, this new widget shows off your friends instead.

The FFavatars widget is sort of like the friends block on Facebook, but one that’s filled with your FriendFeed subscribers. Since the FriendFeed API doesn’t directly implement a way to fetch your subscriber list, Alan worked around this issue by fetching your “subscribed to” list then checking to see if each of those friends were also subscribed back to you. The end result is a widget that only shows your mutual FriendFeed friendships.

If you want to try it out on your own web site, just copy and paste this code (below) into your web site:

<div style=”width:300px;border:1px solid #ccc;”><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://cheslow.com/ffavatars/?nickname=acheslow&size=large&max=12″></script></div>
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All you need to do is replace where it says “nickname” with your own FriendFeed username.

If you want to edit the size of avatars or the number of avatars displayed, you can use this code instead:

<div style=”width:300px;border:1px solid #ccc;”><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://cheslow.com/ffavatars/?nickname=acheslow&size=large&max=12″></script></div>

To modify the size, the options are:

size=[small|medium|large]

and to modify the max number, the options are:

max=[number]

Note that the widget only shows 15 of your random friends by default if you don’t change it otherwise. You can see the widget in action both on Alan’s site here or on mine here.