Make Your Own Web Site Badges with jQuery and JSON

Make Your Own Web Site Badges with jQuery and JSON: "Services like Flickr, Delicious, and Twitter all offer JavaScript badges or widgets you can add to your site. But if you already use a JavaScript framework on your site, like jQuery, why would you want to add more JavaScript? Besides, it’s more fun to make your own. All of these services also offer a JSON format feed API, and rolling your own widget is easy. Here’s one I whipped up in no time for Twitter using jQuery. You’ll be surprised at how little code it requires."