Written by Jolie O’Dell
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 a hosted version is in the works, and the screen shots prove it’s so worth the effort.
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 features of the product for the end user are its slew of gorgeous interfaces. The themes differ not just in color/fonts/ridiculous design doodads; they mix up the information design itself.
For example, if the user prefers straight-up streams of data, there are several sexy options such as this:
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