diff --git a/widgets/widget_friends.php b/widgets/widget_friends.php
index 2286f68ca..fc7d7aa98 100644
--- a/widgets/widget_friends.php
+++ b/widgets/widget_friends.php
@@ -23,8 +23,13 @@ function friends_widget_content(&$a, $conf){
 
 	$o = "";
 	$o .= "<style>
+		.f9k_widget {font-size: 0.8em;}
+		.f9k_widget #contact-block { overflow: hidden; height: auto; }
+		.f9k_widget .contact-block-h4 { float: left; margin: 0px; }
+		.f9k_widget .allcontact-link { float: right; margin: 0px; }
+		.f9k_widget .contact-block-content { clear:both; }
 		.f9k_widget .contact-block-div { display: block !important; float: left!important; width: 50px!important; height: 50px!important; margin: 2px!important;}
-		.f9k_widget #contact-block-end { clear: left; }
+		
 	</style>";
 	$o .= _abs_url(contact_block());
 	$o .= "<a href='".$a->get_baseurl().'/profile/'.$a->profile['nickname']."'>". t('Connect on Friendika!') ."</a>";
diff --git a/widgets/widget_like.php b/widgets/widget_like.php
index 6927d4324..b60d2d94d 100644
--- a/widgets/widget_like.php
+++ b/widgets/widget_like.php
@@ -14,9 +14,49 @@ function like_widget_args(){
 function like_widget_content(&$a, $conf){
 	$args = explode(",",$_GET['a']);
 	
-	if ($args[0]!=""){
-		return " #TODO like/dislike count for item with <em>" .$args[0]. "</em> # ";
-	} else {
-		return " #TODO# ";
-	}
+	
+	$baseq="SELECT COUNT(`item`.`id`) as `c`, `p`.`id`
+					FROM `item`, 
+						(SELECT `i`.`id` FROM `item` as `i` WHERE 
+							`i`.`visible` = 1 AND `i`.`deleted` = 0
+							AND (( `i`.`wall` = 1 AND `i`.`allow_cid` = ''  
+									AND `i`.`allow_gid` = '' 
+									AND `i`.`deny_cid`  = '' 
+									AND `i`.`deny_gid`  = '' ) 
+								  OR `i`.`uid` = %d )
+							AND `i`.`body` LIKE '%%%s%%' LIMIT 1) as `p`
+					WHERE `item`.`parent` = `p`.`id` ";
+	
+	// count likes
+	$r = q( $baseq . "AND `item`.`verb` = 'http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/like'",
+			intval($conf['uid']),
+			dbesc($args[0])
+	);
+	$likes = $r[0]['c'];
+	$iid = $r[0]['id'];
+	
+	// count dislikes
+	$r = q( $baseq . "AND `item`.`verb` = 'http://purl.org/macgirvin/dfrn/1.0/dislike'",
+			intval($conf['uid']),
+			dbesc($args[0])
+	);
+	$dislikes = $r[0]['c'];
+	
+	
+	require_once("include/conversation.php");
+	
+	$o = "";
+	
+	$t = file_get_contents( dirname(__file__). "/widget_like.tpl" );
+	$o .= replace_macros($t, array(
+		'$like'		=> $likes,
+		'$strlike'	=> sprintf( tt("%d person likes this", "%d people like this", $likes), $likes),
+		
+		'$dislike'	=> $dislikes,
+		'$strdislike'=> sprintf( tt("%d person doesn't like this", "%d people don't like this", $dislikes), $dislikes),
+		
+		'$baseurl' => $a->get_baseurl(),
+	));
+		
+	return $o;
 }
diff --git a/widgets/widget_like.tpl b/widgets/widget_like.tpl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e43e7a540
--- /dev/null
+++ b/widgets/widget_like.tpl
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+<span class='f9k_like' title="$strlike">$like <img src="$baseurl/images/like.gif" alt="like"/></span> 
+<span class='f9k_dislike' title="$strdislike">$dislike <img src="$baseurl/images/dislike.gif" alt="dislike"/></span>
diff --git a/widgets/widgets.js b/widgets/widgets.js
index 45d36c4d7..e6382d711 100644
--- a/widgets/widgets.js
+++ b/widgets/widgets.js
@@ -22,11 +22,13 @@ var f9a_widget_$widget_id = {
 	dorequest : function(args, cb) {
 		if (args===null) args = new Array();
 		args['k']=this.key;
-		args['s']=window.location;
+		args['s']=window.location.href;
 		args['a']=this.argstr;
 		var urlencodedargs = new Array();
-		for(k in args){ urlencodedargs.push( encodeURIComponent(k)+"="+encodeURIComponent(args[k]) ); }
-	
+		for(k in args){ 
+			if (typeof args[k] != 'function')
+				urlencodedargs.push( encodeURIComponent(k)+"="+encodeURIComponent(args[k]) );
+		 }
 		var url = this.entrypoint + "?"+ urlencodedargs.join("&");
 
 		this.xmlhttp.open("GET", url  ,true);
diff --git a/widgets/widgets.php b/widgets/widgets.php
index 13c4f93bb..cedaea34b 100644
--- a/widgets/widgets.php
+++ b/widgets/widgets.php
@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ function widgets_settings(&$a,&$o) {
 		 if(substr($f,0,7)=="widget_") {
 			 preg_match("|widget_([^.]+).php|", $f, $m);
 			 $w=$m[1];
-			 require_once($f);
-			 $widgets[] = array($w, call_user_func($w."_widget_name"));
+			 if ($w!=""){
+				require_once($f);
+				$widgets[] = array($w, call_user_func($w."_widget_name"));
+			}
 
 		 }
 	}
@@ -104,13 +106,7 @@ function widgets_content(&$a) {
 
 	//echo "<pre>"; var_dump($a->argv); die();
 	if ($a->argv[2]=="cb"){
-		/*if (!local_user()){
-			if (!isset($_GET['s']))
-				{header('HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request'); killme();}
-			
-			if (substr($_GET['s'],0,strlen($conf['site'])) !== $conf['site'])
-				{header('HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request'); killme();}
-		} */
+		header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
 		$o .= call_user_func($a->argv[1].'_widget_content',$a, $conf);
 		
 	} else {
@@ -136,14 +132,15 @@ function widgets_content(&$a) {
 		$o .= replace_macros($script, array(
 			'$entrypoint' => $a->get_baseurl()."/widgets/".$a->argv[1]."/cb/",
 			'$key' => $conf['key'],
-			'$widget_id' => 'f9k_'.$a->argv[1]."_".time(),
+			'$widget_id' => 'f9a_'.$a->argv[1]."_". ceil(microtime(true)*100),
 			'$loader' => $a->get_baseurl()."/images/rotator.gif",
 			'$args' => (isset($_GET['a'])?$_GET['a']:''),
 		));
 
 	
 		if (isset($_GET['p'])) {
-			$jsargs = implode("</em>,<em>", call_user_func($a->argv[1].'_widget_args'));
+			$wargs = call_user_func($a->argv[1].'_widget_args');
+			$jsargs = implode("</em>,<em>", $wargs);
 			if ($jsargs!='') $jsargs = "&a=<em>".$jsargs."</em>";
 				
 			$o .= "</script>
@@ -155,6 +152,8 @@ function widgets_content(&$a) {
 			.$jsargs
 			.htmlspecialchars('"></script>')
 			."</code>";
+
+			
 			return $o;
 		}