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AmpliFeeder Streams Your Life and Saves My Sanity

A common complaint about social networking is that it's tough to manage your presence at a bunch of different sites every day. If you have trouble finding time to update your activity across many different sites, think how your friends and colleagues must feel trying to keep up with you. Do yourself and everyone else a favor, and try lifestreaming.

AmpliFeeder, an open source lifestream platform, puts all your social media activity in one central location on the Web so your followers don't have to log in to a dozen sites to see what you've been up to. Your friends will thank you for it.

AmpliFeeder is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License, The full source code isn't available just yet as its developer, Jon Paul Davies, is "trying to get a few more user install and experience stories so I can confirm I've got all bugs worked out."

I've talked about the concept of lifestreaming before and think it's an idea that is definitely worth considering. I'm genuinely interested in what my friends are doing and writing around the Internet but trying to remember to check multiple sites every day is slowly driving me batty. I'd love to drop in on a single site per friend that lets me see their pictures, blog posts, and bookmarks all in one shot. 

• Social Networks
• lifestreaming
• social networking
• AmpliFeed

by Randy Clark on May. 26, 2009

So, this is like a FOSS FriendFeed? How are they doing? Twitter seems to be all the rage today, and FF seems to have fallen off the way-side, but this is purely surmise on my part.

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by Giu Como on May. 28, 2009

If I understand it correctly, this could be a pretty cool application especially if you can integrate this as a module into some of the CMS platforms out there (Drupal, Joomla, etc.) where other niche/vertical communities could allow users to share their 'social graph' without having to integrate separately with each social media platform out there...

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by LIsa on May. 28, 2009

To tell you the truth, I don't understand why everyone into social media doesn't use these types of apps. All I can think of is that they're kind of one-dimensional and, though it's a great way to aggregate all *my* stuff for other people's benefit, it doesn't keep me from still having to visit Twitter and Facebook to find out what other people are up to. Seems like these apps are close to ideal, but not quite there yet. I'm not sure what the right answer is...

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