Xbox Live for the 360 offers this Gamer Card thing where you get a shareable web badge version of your Xbox Dashboard gamercard. That plus TypePad Widgets should be pretty cool! Here's my friend Broken's:
Unfortunately is too wide for the sidebars in TypePad's default themes. If you're using a Custom Theme with a 300 pixel wide sidebar, though, it works just fine. Enter your gamertag to add it as a widget to your blog:
Xbox Live Gamer Card
However, there's a site called MyGamerCard.net that can convert your Xbox 360 Live gamercard into another format. They offer a wide, short version for forum sigs and a Flash version (that doesn't do anything special that I could tell...). Most importantly (for your blog) they offer a "mini" image form factor that will fit in a narrow sidebar without modification. Here's Broken's again:
Enter your gamertag to add one to your blog:
MyGamerCard.net Mini Gamer Card
If you're like me and the Nintendo DS is more your speed, the Witendofi.com forum/matchup site offers a similar badge to anyone who signs up. As you can see, I don't know anyone there yet.
Like the regular Xbox Live Gamer Card, it's wide, so you need a Custom Theme with a 300 pixel wide sidebar for it to fit best. But if you do, enter your Witendofi.com username to add the widget:
Witendofi.com DS Wifitag
For either the Xbox Live Gamer Card or the Witendofi.com wifitag, if you have a Pro account, you can use Custom CSS to widen the sidebar column enough for it to fit. To widen a sidebar:
.layout-your-selected-layout #bar { width: Xpx; }
.layout-your-selected-layout #container { width: Ypx; }
where X is the desired width (240 is a smidge over enough), Y is the current width of #container plus how much you're adding to #bar, bar is which sidebar to widen (the bars of the page including the content column are named alpha, beta, and gamma from left to right), and your-selected-layout is your selected layout (look at the classes on your blog's body tag). For example, Broken widened the left sidebar to 234 pixels, using the code:
.layout-moblog1 #alpha { width: 234px; }
.layout-moblog1 #container { width: 814px; }
Sorry I don't have the minutes to write more specific cases, but you can figure out! I have faith in you.
While it would be nicer to have the Witendofi.com wifitag show real WFC content, it's a good start (they're working on pulling some Metroid Prime: Hunters stats from the site), and really nice for a third party offering as-is. And if you play Xbox, of course you can just be all over the Xbox gamer cards like you probably already are. Now you can put them on your TypePad blog a little more easierly. Hope this helps.
