Sony’s morlocks have concocted a web interface that allows you to link your website profile with your PSN ID, enabling viewing of your friends online status (yes indeed, in a manner reminiscent of Xbox Live’s web facility).

For some reason you go to the US site to start the process but I believe it will work internationally:

http://www.us.playstation.com/

Sign in there or create a profile if you don’t have one. Then you should see a “PSN link” button in the top nav bar.

That’ll take you to a page with all your deets, with a link that says:

PlayStation Network Friends List

And then you’ll be able to stumble upon the interesting neuroses that reveal themselves in people’s choice of software consumption:

Warning: as of this writing, the Sony servers are being gang-probed by the NeoGAFfers, so it might be a touch flaky.

Now I just wait for the Mac Dashboard widget to will itself into existence.