Flotzam: Pretty visualization of your social networking data

Flotzam is an application that makes pretty visualizations out of your social network updates. Every time someone posts new media or comments to your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Digg accounts, Flotzam floats a message across your screen. You can also add any RSS feed to receive updates from other sites.

Flotzam doesn't offer much more than a pretty visualization. You can click on a message to open a web browse and see the message in its original context. But there's no way to post your own updates from Flotzam. You can install the application as a screen saver, which could actually be useful. But unfortunately Flotzam's a bit of a resource hog, so you might be better off using a blank screen as a screen saver if you want to save energy while your computer is idle.

We also noticed that Flotzam had a tendency to crash while it was checking our Facebook page. Once we removed Facebook from our preferences the problem went away. Note that you'll need to visits the Flotzam page using Internet Explorer if you want to install the application.

[via Go2Web20]

Tags: flotzam, screen-saver, social-networking