Integrating Facebook with other sites

Facebook has a great feature that allows easy integration with several other sites: Facebook badges.

This handy feature allows you to display your photo and several other details from Facebook in a convenient way. Unfortunately this feature is not easy to find if you do not know that it exists. I found it from Facebook's help under "profile". It can also be found from a tiny link at the bottom of your own profile page.

Currently, the following information can be listed:

• Profile picture
  
• Email address
• Name
• Networks
• IM Screen names
• Birthday
• Telephone numbers
• Websites
• Status updates
• Recent pictures
• Upcoming events
• Latest notes
• Posted items
  

The badge can be generated in one of two formats:

• Image
• JavaScript
  

In both cases only HTML is available to post to other sites. BBCode, especially for the image version would have increased badges' usefulness significantly, especially on forums.