It is already released.

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It's available now.

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Hi gingerbeardman!  First off, thanks so much for making some of the best widgets for the Chumby :-D

Secondly - I added a comment to your xbox live widget, but then realised here is probably a better place to comment.  What I'd like to do is either help improve this widget, or perhaps create a related widget.  I made a comment about update of the live status, as I'm not sure how accurate, or up-to-date it's information is.  I also thought it might be nice to be able to select someone in the list, to get more information about them...

If there is a way I could help, or something you think might be useful, let me know :-)

Yeah, I'm not sure what the issue is with the freshness of information.  I'll try some running some tests tonight to suss out what I can.  I was wondering if the data was being pulled from the xbox server via a cron that's being updated every x mins/hours.  I was thinking that I'd like to figure out what information can be accessed anyway - I assume it is quite limited, and likely to change to some extent with this Autumn's update but something I'd like to work on for a separate project.  Something to link to achievements would be a good one to get...

I don't mind if you'd like to keep the project your own, but I'd be willing to help where I can; I'm an experienced, albeit lapsed, actionscript programmer.

> I just don't want it becoming a full on replacement for Xbox.com

lol I don't think that's likely to happen, but probably quite profitable if MS decided they wanted to buy it off you!

I think what I'll do is start working on a separate xbox widget for now, and see how far I get.  I'll post back any findings/progress here.

Well, regarding tapping the screen: I've tested it a little.  It updates fine when I tap the screen, but I think I see the problem of the caching emerging as sometimes it looks like it reverts, and when it reloads after a while not being shown, it doesn't seem to always update with the latest info.  Also, tapping on the screen sometimes causes it to redraw duplicate profiles.

If I can make one other suggestion, then that would be to make the off-line profiles to be white text on a black background - so they are distinguished from those online, but still easily readable.