LIbraryThing Widget July 1, 2011 2:15 PM   Subscribe

The LibraryThing widget is pulling random books from your LibraryThing account. Since Twitter and Last.fm and many of the others seem to default to most recent, it seems like the LibraryThing widget should pull your most recent books too, just to be consistent.
posted by COD to Feature Requests at 2:15 PM (25 comments total)

No, it's pulling in books that are marked 'Currently Reading' at LibraryThing. That gives people a bit more control over what they want to share compared to just listing the last few books.

I'm not sure what happens if you don't have any books marked as 'Currently Reading'. Maybe it does default to pulling in random books.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:17 PM on July 1, 2011


Here's the original request that includes some discussion about what to feature in the widget.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:21 PM on July 1, 2011


Neither Last.fm or LibraryThing are showing anything at all on my profile. Whats up? I was listening to last.fm today.
posted by adamvasco at 2:21 PM on July 1, 2011


adamvasco, click Preferences up top and makes sure "show widget on profile" is checked next to those services.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:22 PM on July 1, 2011


I'm not sure what happens if you don't have any books marked as 'Currently Reading'. Maybe it does default to pulling in random books.

Yup. It does.
posted by likeso at 2:27 PM on July 1, 2011


I just looked at the list and isn't Dopplr obsolete now since Marko's been bought out?
posted by infini at 2:27 PM on July 1, 2011


Yup. It does.

ok thanks. If you don't want that, throw some books in your Currently Reading collection.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:28 PM on July 1, 2011


Dopplr is still up and running—you can go to the site and sign up. We'll remove it when/if the site shuts down.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:30 PM on July 1, 2011


ok thanks. If you don't want that, throw some books in your Currently Reading collection.

Me, I'm cool with it. Other yous, then. :)
posted by likeso at 2:33 PM on July 1, 2011


Ok, hadn't realize it was still running, I'd stopped updating after the firesale
posted by infini at 2:33 PM on July 1, 2011


pb - They are checked, maybe it only updates every x hours, don't know. I don't have any books marked as currently reading. I'll check that out tomorrow.
posted by adamvasco at 2:36 PM on July 1, 2011


I see them on your profile page. They're below your About section. Did you scroll all the way down?
posted by pb (staff) at 2:39 PM on July 1, 2011


Can we set this up to read the books for me?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:12 PM on July 1, 2011 [2 favorites]


While we're here, I just noticed that the twitter widget doesn't mark things retweeted using the actual RT button as different from a normal tweet (e.g. with the icon the actual site uses)...don't know if there's anything you can do about that.
posted by advil at 3:34 PM on July 1, 2011


nah, the widget is by Twitter itself. Not much we can do about that. You could always try asking Twitter Support.
posted by pb (staff) at 3:43 PM on July 1, 2011


Which SocialStuffs have widgets? So far, I know:
  • Twitter
  • Flickr
  • Last.fm
  • LibraryThing
Any others?
posted by grouse at 3:49 PM on July 1, 2011


Vimeo!

That's it.
posted by pb (staff) at 3:50 PM on July 1, 2011


Added a "(widget)" notation for these to the wiki.
posted by grouse at 4:05 PM on July 1, 2011 [1 favorite]


Any chance of adding goodreads, pb?
posted by box at 5:02 AM on July 2, 2011


Goodreads is already one of the social apps that we support. If they provide hosted widgets like these other services we can take a look and see if we can make it work with the design.
posted by pb (staff) at 3:48 PM on July 2, 2011


Goodreads is already one of the social apps that we support. If they provide hosted widgets like these other services we can take a look and see if we can make it work with the design.

They do! A GR widget would be nifty.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 3:52 PM on July 2, 2011


Goodreads has a bunch of widgets, actually.
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 4:06 PM on July 2, 2011


Urbanspoon also has widgets, FYI.
posted by SMPA at 6:32 PM on July 2, 2011


Make work for pb ride-on ponies!! Shelfari appears to have widgets
posted by stratastar at 10:49 PM on July 2, 2011


We don't currently have a "what widgets will we add" policy, so that's something we'll need to discuss. It might be as simple as: can we make it look similar to the other widgets in size and color?
posted by pb (staff) at 11:02 PM on July 2, 2011


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