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Movable Type gets in Motion, launching a social activity streams aggregator for your site

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Movable Type, the well-known blog software company, just launched “Motion“, which integrates activity streams, microblogging, and portable identities into a software package that can be installed into the company’s hosted publishing platform, Movable Type Pro.
You can use it to create a public Twitter-like microblog for your existing community, or you can use it as an internal instrument to monitor and track activities in social networks from around the web.

To use this free piece of software you will need an appropriate Movable Type Pro license (see here). The team can help getting you started.

What this software does (according to Movable Type):

* Create a private, custom action aggregator to track sentiment and glean intelligence from conversations around the web through action streams.
* Provide a private microblog community for simple internal employee or team collaboration.
* Publish a public microblog to nurture and grow your community while increasing your page views.
* Create a public social network to connect to your community across the web instead of competing against other social networks.

These are the features of Motion:

* Action Streams
Collect and share actions from across the web, from dozens of supported services including Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Delicious, Digg and more.

* Rich Microblogging
It’s easy to post text, links, images, audio or embedded video with just a click.

* Powerful Profiles
Motion profiles show their actions from across the web for all your registered users. Site members can follow each other, and easily upload profile pictures.

* Sign in with any web account
Your community members can authenticate with their existing account from Google, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, or any OpenID provider. Now half a billion web users can comment or vote on your content without hitting a registration barrier.

Watch a demo below or read their Frequently Asked Questions.

Tags: activity, aggregator, blog software, community, conversations, microblog, motion, Movable Type, network, social, streams

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