Dynamic Signatures & Flight Plans
My suggestion revolves around forum signatures that you find at the bottom of peoples posts on websites. I am going to write this from the perspective of two people. One is a user sitting at work (we will call him Bob), the other is a user sitting at home playing Elite Dangerous (we will call him Sam).
While at work, Bob logs into his favourite Elite Dangerous forum. On reading the posts, he notices his friend Sam had posted a recent message to the forum. At the bottom of Sams post, his signature indicates that Sam is currently online in Elite Dangerous right now, and that he's currently in his Type 6, In Transit. This is because Sam's forum signature has a background image of a type 6, and below his commander name (that also features on the signature), it states " Current Status: In Transit". This information changes as the pilot changes ships, docks , and undocks... so that the forum signature is dynamic.
As Bob and Sam are friends in Elite Dangerous, Bob can now click on Sams Signature where he will then be taken to a special web page that looks like an aviation flight plan log book. From here Bob can see that Sam planned a navigation course 10 minutes ago going from [System] to [System], ( a course that would take 4 jumps) and that Sam is currently in the second system of that planned route. Also on this Flight log site, you can pad it out with past logged routes, a summery of distance travelled today, this week, this month, a basic profile of the pilot, and a chat window that connects to that pilot (Sam) in real time.. (You could sell the fact that the communications frequency the pilot will be operating on, is also logged with the flight plan ) via the flight log page.
Now, not all pilots will want to be tracked in this manor, so when the signature is clicked on from within the forums, Bob would have to log in with his own Elite Dangerous Account. This should then give you means to identify the person clicking on the signature, determine if he is on the pilots friends list, if so, show the flight log screen, if not, show some sort of access denied / classified message, with the option to contact the pilot now in real time ( via a text chat box on the site - going to the pilots text chat comms system ) , and an 'add the pilot to friends list' button. Then it would be down to the pilot to vet the person clicking on the forum signature...
No idea if any of that can be done, awesome if it can.... feel free to adapt and stuff...
Nice!