I recently tried to use identi.ca, a microblogging service similar to Twitter, but with a big difference : it is a free web application based on the free microblogging software Laconica.

One thing I rapidly tried to do is to display my user timeline on this blog, as many Twitter users do. Fortunately I found a great little javascript written by Kent Brewster and called identica-badge, which does 99% of what I wanted. I only tweaked it a little bit in order to display my user timeline (instead of my friends timeline), to add a link to the identi.ca and (optionnaly) twitter user page, etc.

You can see the result on this blog homepage. 

Since Kent kindly answer to my licence question on this post’s comments, the file can be downloaded and is ditributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 attributions, noncommercial, share-alike licence :

To use it, just edit the javascript file to adapt the configuration settings (in the loadDefaults function), and call it from any HTML-like file with :

<div id="identica_update_list">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/identica-badge.js"></script>
</div>