2007年 Jan 17日 Wednesday, 6:20

Note: the widget described here has a newer/better version now. You can get a description of this newer version in the group dedicated to the widget.

Introducing…
The last.fm dashboard widget is the fastest way to keep an eye on your last.fm userpage without beeing distracted. Just check out your dashboard and you’re done!

The current version is 0.3. This version is still a bit buggy, and many improvements have to been done, but it still allows you to get up to 3 shouts on everybody’s shoutbox. You can download it for free here.

Features
* secretly spies from 1 to 3 shouts from an user’s shoutbox,
* displays the shout sender's username, his status (user, subscriber or staff member), the message’s date and the shout itself,
* stay tuned and grab the latest version when avaible with the build-in update thingy. You can't miss it.

Screenshots
http://nanalegumene.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/widget1.png http://nanalegumene.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/widget2.png

Known bugs
I'm aware that…
* the links to userpages are broken
* it sometimes gets stuck at the “got the data, now fetching” (due to a weird bug with shouts with weird page breaks) — I'm working on it.

Development discussion
I’ve created a group on last.fm. Please join so I can keep track on how many people are interrested by my widget, and we will be able to talk about that (features, bug squash parties, etc).

To do…
* code clean-up, make it less heavy
* display the shouts more elegantly
* display the shout sender's avatar
* display more than the last 3 shouts in a nice arrowlist
* also, for subscribers, display the last users who came on your page