Action Streams: Activity Aggregator

Vox blogs may see a great social networking feature sometime within the indefinite future. Six Apart, the parent company of Vox, announced several days ago on their corporate blog that the Action Streams Plugin was introduced for MovableType. Action Streams is an aggregator that publishes your activity elsewhere on the internet to your blog. Thus, your Twitter status updates, Flickr uploads and favorites activity, and so on are included (based on your choosing) on your MovableType blog. (Visual examples can be accessed via my Link, MovableType's blog, or the staff's working demo.) This is similar to, albeit much more robust than, the LoudTwitter application that I and many other bloggers have been using to post their daily Tweets to their blogs. Obviously, this is an exciting, very innovative, and desirable feature for blogs.

Upon being asked if this will eventually be added to TypePad and Vox, Six Apart's David Recordon replied by expressing the company's interest in eventually shipping this feature to both platforms. I really look forward to seeing this come to fruition on Vox. I can't wait!