Mini notification module

One of the things that JS added recently that is SUPER helpful is a little tiny module that can be placed anywhere that shows the notifications boxed for new friend requests, new messages and activity stream notifications. I place this in the header of my site so that users have access no matter where they are in the site. I would LOVE to have something like this for EasySocial, especially if it had the option to include EasyDiscuss and EasyBlog activity in the notification stream. Ideally it would be just some small icons that sported a little red number when there were new items to look at. Each should have a drop down or pop-up list of the items, similar to how notifications work now.