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Continuing our coverage of recent developments in the FriendFeed camp, we just found out that finally the lifestreaming service is introducing some set of easy-to-embed widgets which we can all use easily in our respective sites/blogs. Although some of the contents of these widgets can already be done using RSS the FriendFeed’s official widgets is still a better alternative to displaying your FriendFeed streams and profile into your own blogs or sites.

Here are the FriendFeed widgets that you can use on your own respectives blogs/sites:

FriendFeed Embed Badge – Finally, you can now embed your FF profile badge to your own blogs and websites. Of course, you all know how useful this profile badges are when it comes to letting your readers connect to your FriendFeed updates. Although the default FriendFeed badge looks cool with the standard FF blue theme, some of us would still love to have the capability to customize our FF badges to suit the look and feel of our blogs/sites. Fortunately, FriendFeed allows us to do this, although I would have to say that it would have been better if this is done without touching on the CSS codes. Some who are not familiar with CSS may find this difficult to do, although FriendFeed was generous enough to offer a page explaining how to do this. Hopefully, in the future, FriendFeed would make profile badge customization easier. Here’s my profile badge as an example of how cool this FriendFeed badges are. You may click on the badge to add my profile to your FF list of friends. Other FriendFeed widgets available include:

ShareOn FriendFeed Link – Embed this link to your specific blog posts to let your friends and readers share them on their specific FriendFeed updates

Feed Widget – Lets you share your feed on any site! Embed your feed or a room’s feed on your website or blog with the feed widget. I was actually trying to figure out how to do this a couple of days ago and I couldn’t make it work in my site. Fortunately, FriendFeed seemed to have read my mind and make this feature easy to implement. You can specific which part of your FriendFeed updates you want to feature on this Feed Widget, and you can also specify the number of feeds to display.

Chiclet Widget - This is the eye-candy chicklet that lets you connect your blogs’ readers to your FriendFeed account. It’s a pretty simple widget and all you need to do is to copy and paste the code into your respective sites/blogs. Subscribe to me on FriendFeed

Status Widget – This widget displays your most recent status messages on your FriendFeed account.

Overall, these widgets add more use and value to the FriendFeed lifestreaming service. Gradually, FriendFeed is establishing itself as a force to reckon with in the Lifestreaming niche, and possibly emerging as the top one at that.

Note: Feel free to click on my FriendFeed badge to connect to my FriendFeed account.

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