Just discovered a couple useful tips for embedding your twitter or Facebook profile pictures elsewhere. Apparently, you can use the APIs to pull the images out.
For Facebook: http://graph.facebook.com/<username>/picture (where <username> is the username of the Facebook user whose profile picture you want to display) will display that user's current profile picture. That URL doesn't even have to be updated when the user changes his/her profile picture.
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For twitter: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/<username> (where <username> is the username of the twitter user whose profile picture you want to display) will display that user's current profile picture.
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Turns out Google+ also has a way of doing it: https://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/photos/profile/{id} (where {id} is the big long ID number that G+ assigns to each user). Don't forget to add some height and width attributes to your img tag as the profile pic from G+ can be fairly large.
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I know, my profile pictures aren't that interesting, but that's only because we recently had professional photos done and it made sense to use one of them as both my Facebook and twitter profile pictures (notice the are actually different given the size restrictions on each service). As far as I know, LinkedIn doesn't have anything quite as easy as this. You have to make two calls to get the data: one using your own LinkedIn credentials to make sure you have permission to view the photo, then another to actually call the photo. Kinda sucks if you ask me. Maybe they'll wise up.
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