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Amplifeeder: FriendFeed's Much Hotter Sister

Source: ReadWriteWeb

May 26, 2009

Summary

There are a slew of social media aggregation sites willing, waiting, and wanting to pull your updates, videos, photos, links, music, "shares," "likes," and other content from all around the web. A few of them work well, some have really cool features, and others have critical mass.

But none of them are as drop-dead good-looking - or as customizable - as Amplifeeder, a free, open-source distributed social activity aggregator. The only major drawback: It's the kind of web app that needs to be installed on a server. But the screen shots prove it's so worth the effort.

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Amplifeeder aggregates items from Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Google Shared Items, Tumblr, Digg, Reddit, LastFM, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Upcoming, Mixx, BrightKite, and more. It can also handle any RSS feeds you throw at it.

Perhaps best of all, it'll automagically import any of the services you link to through FriendFeed, making your new site setup time about 30 seconds:

Creator Jon Paul Davies has uploaded several other interesting and useful videos on using Amplifeeder.

Certainly one of the best

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Comments (5)

Tweric,

May 26, 2009

Gotta love "automagically" but not so sure about the app...

Mitchellmckenna,

May 26, 2009

one of the themes looks fishily like sweetcron ;)

The Puck,

May 27, 2009

It looks pretty, but you lose the FF community factor.

Djdigit,

May 28, 2009

Looks really cool, but runs on Microsoft servers. Would be really nice if it came in a Linux/MySQL package ... oh, wait, that's SweetCron.

The Puck,

May 29, 2009

@djdigit I didn't even see that it ran on MS servers...echh. I am not going to give up years of working on and learning *nix for an amusement. WTF are they thinking?