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Swurl brings all of your social networking activity together
Once upon a time, letting people know what you were up to online was simple. You'd just point your friends toward your blog, LiveJournal page, or MySpace where you posted all of your latest musing on life. But if you're an active netizen, odds are your social activity is spread out across a half dozen or more sites, ranging from YouTube to del.icio.us. Swurl is a new service that helps bring all of your status updates, bookmarks, watched videos and other activity together.
If Swurl sounds a bit like FriendFeed, it kind of is. Both services let you gather all of your social networking activity in one place. But Swurl is a lot prettier and more customizable. You can think of it almost as a meta-blog. If you have a blog on Blogger or WordPress, you can configure Swurl to display all of your latest posts in blog-like format. But it will also show your Twitter and Facebook status updates and other activity in chronological order. Or you can hit the search box to search all of your sites.
Anyone can comment on an item that shows up on your Swurl page just by hovering their mouse near the bottom of an update. And you can use Swurl as something of a start page by hitting the Friends tab to see what your contacts have been up to. There's also a nifty timeline view that shows your updates plotted out on a calendar.
Swurl was developed by Ryan Sit, the same guy who brought us Listpic, an awesome interface for browsing online classified sites.
If Swurl sounds a bit like FriendFeed, it kind of is. Both services let you gather all of your social networking activity in one place. But Swurl is a lot prettier and more customizable. You can think of it almost as a meta-blog. If you have a blog on Blogger or WordPress, you can configure Swurl to display all of your latest posts in blog-like format. But it will also show your Twitter and Facebook status updates and other activity in chronological order. Or you can hit the search box to search all of your sites.
Anyone can comment on an item that shows up on your Swurl page just by hovering their mouse near the bottom of an update. And you can use Swurl as something of a start page by hitting the Friends tab to see what your contacts have been up to. There's also a nifty timeline view that shows your updates plotted out on a calendar.
Swurl was developed by Ryan Sit, the same guy who brought us Listpic, an awesome interface for browsing online classified sites.
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Lee Mathews said 5:22PM on 7-03-2008
Seen this? http://www.profilactic.com/. Aggregation on steriods...what's the point? Do I really want that many potential stalkers?
Grant?
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Michelle McCormack said 10:18PM on 7-03-2008
I love the timeline on Swurl. As I write on my site, it's a visual representation of how productive I have been. Whoever did the interface is a fabulous designer.
http://cloudoutloud.tv/2008/06/28/swurl/
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Ryan said 10:40PM on 7-03-2008
Thank you Michelle, that is so kind! It's the best design I could muster until we get some professional designers for Swurl :)
Let us know what we can do to convince you to switch your blog over to using Swurl 100%.
Ryan
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moby said 7:33AM on 7-05-2008
I'm a member of FF, Swurl, and Profilactic. All seem to offer a twist on the same service. Swurl tends to be a tad more user friendly as far as the user interface. The RSS feed for the live home page is nice too. Swurl is very fast at pulling stuff from the other sites.
It would great to see these sites offer OpenID along w/an option to filter out duplicate feeds. For example, FF will pull the same updates I send to twitter/pownce. That gets annoying to me as well as my followers.
I'm not really sold on any of them yet. I'll keep playing till one stands out as the winner!
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