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Virtosoftware Announces Virto RSS&Twitter Aggregator- a New SharePoint Web Part for Displaying PostsFeatured PR

Virtosoftware has released a new Microsoft SharePoint web part for aggregating posts from RSS feeds, blogs and Twitter and social networks and displaying them on your SharePoint sites - Virto RSS & Twitter Aggregator, compatible with both SP 2007 and SP 2010.
CA, San Francisco, United States of America (prbd.net) 04/06/2010

"Virtosoftware has released a new Microsoft SharePoint web part for aggregating posts from RSS feeds, blogs and Twitter and social networks and displaying them on your SharePoint sites - Virto RSS & Twitter Aggregator, compatible with both SP 2007 and"

Virtosoftware has released a new Microsoft SharePoint web part for aggregating posts from RSS feeds, blogs and Twitter and social networks and displaying them on your SharePoint sites - Virto RSS & Twitter Aggregator, compatible with both SP 2007 and SP 2010.

Virtosoftware expands its SharePoint product line presenting Virto RSS&Twitter Aggregator - a new Virtosoftware web part for aggregating and effective displaying posts from various RSS feeds, combine blogs, news as well Twitter and popular social networks. A simple component allows users to conveniently view feeds from the variety of sources. The web part is fully compatible with both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.

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 stylesheet as well as define their individual datasources for the feeds.

For Twitter users Virtosoftware offers additional features that allow for not only reading twits but also posting right from SharePoint interface. Virto RSS & Twitter Aggregator ( http://www.virtosoftware.com/virto-rss-twitter-facebook-aggregator-web-part-for-sharepoint.aspx) 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.

Key Features:
1. Support for RSS type of feeds including RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, ATOM and many more.
2. Support for aggregating feeds from various sources (combine blogs, twitter, news in one view).
3. Feeds are updated in real time using AJAX interface.
4. Native Twitter API Support with ability to update and delete twitter statuses right from SharePoint
5. Support for Twitter OATH protocol. We do not store your accounts or passwords.
6. Full User Interface customization using XSL and CSS. Customize overall layout, individual datasource feed item layouts and stylesheet (css).
7. Ability to control who can post updates to twitter.

Current release is the very first version of Virto Social Aggregator Web Part. As in the case of all other Virtosoftware products, Virto RSS & Twitter Aggregator ( http://www.virtosoftware.com/virto-rss-twitter-facebook-aggregator-web-part-for-sharepoint.aspx) will be constantly improving and updating. In the next version we plan to complete the integration with Facebook making it possible to get and post information from the network. Support of the approval workflow is another feature to be included to one of the next versions of Virto RSS & Twitter Aggregator. With this feature it will be possible to define an approval scheme for all the posts displayed by the web part.

Virto Social Aggregator Web Part for SharePoint web part is already available for purchasing at http://www.virtosoftware.com. Visit the site for more information about other Microsoft SharePoint web parts by Virtosoftware, trials and documentation, and do not for get to follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/virtosoftware.

About Virto Software:
VirtoSoftware, a Microsoft Gold-Certified partner, designs and builds innovative web parts for Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 and 2010. Our comprehensive lineup includes calendar, alerts, collaboration, workflow and administration capabilities for SharePoint users.

More than 1500 users around the world have chosen our products to enhance their SharePoint activities. Virto Software is headquartered in 4 with offices worldwide. For more information or to browse Virto Software’s products, please visit http://www.virtosoftware.com or contact us: sales@virtosoftware.com

Press Contact:
Ms. Olga Kiner
PR Manager
Virtosoftware
San Francisco, CA 94101
+1 323 319 511
o@virtosoftware.com
http://www.virtosoftware.com

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VirtoSoftware designs and builds innovative web parts for Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 and 2010. It's compiled using the best Ajax and Silverlight technologies. The very first Virto Web Part was released in April, 2009, and the current comprehensive lineup includes calendaring, alerting, collaboration, workflow and administration capabilities for SharePoint users.

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Ms. Olga Kiner

San Francisco, CA
Zipcode : 94134
+1 323 319 511
o@virtosoftware.com
http://www.virtosoftware.com