Virto Social Aggregator is a SharePoint web part for aggregating and effective displaying posts from various RSS feeds, combining blogs, news as well Twitter and popular social networks (Facebook).

Virto Social Aggregator Web Part aggregates feeds from various sources and display them on your SharePoint site in a single view, which is subject to flexible customization using XSL and CSS. Users can easily customize overall layout and style sheet as well as define their individual data sources for the feeds.

For Twitter users Virto Social Aggregator offers additional features that allow for not only reading twits but also posting right from SharePoint interface. Virto RSS & Twitter Aggregator supports OATH protocol for Twitter, meaning that it does not store users’ Twitter accounts or passwords. SharePoint administrator is free to define the users, for whom the extended Twitter options of the Aggregator are available. Facebook integration in this version is still not complete, which means you can’t post information from the network.

To install Virto Social Aggregator on your system, the following are required; Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or 2008 Server, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or higher is recommended. Mozilla FireFox 3.0 is applicable, Edition for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 – Microsoft Windows SharePoint Foundation 2010 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010, and Edition for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 – Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Want to check it out? Visit Virtosoftware.com.

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