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[orangerful]

In my ongoing mission to see exactly how much crap I can cram into a sidebar, LibraryThing has finally created a widget that works on Livejournal. Or, at least, they are beta-testing it. I seem to have gotten it to work.

Shelfari said it had widgets, but I couldn't get any of them to install. They are far prettier, but when I plugged one in, it same I needed Adobe Flash Player 9 (which I got and it still didn't work) and the other one gave me an "invalid video code". My coding knowledge is pretty basic though, so it might just be that they widget technology is not compatible with livejournal. *shrug*

In other new - Alton Brown's new season of 'Feasting on Asphalt' starts TOMORROW! You might want to set your DVR so you don't miss it. We just watched the first episode from last year's road trip adventure, and it was informative and funny! (especially when he ate that pickled pig's foot!). Food Network, 9pm.

Comments

[ladynaberrie.livejournal.com]

where can one find this beta widget?

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Here's the main blog post about it (http://www.librarything.com/blog/2006/12/graphical-widgets-for-lj-and-etc-first.php)

And the code is pretty simple:

[a href="http://www.librarything.com/profile/YOUR USERNAME"]
[img src="http://www.librarything.com/gwidget/widget.php?view=YOURU SERNAME&type=random&num=5&hbold=1&ac=ac8834&tc=000000&bc=EEEEFF&fsize=8">
[/a]

of course, replacing the [] with <> :)

[ladynaberrie.livejournal.com]

yay