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Swurl, worth a look and a sign-up

Posted by Chris under Facebook, Friend Feed, Social Networking, Swurl, Technology, Twitter, Uncategorized

As if friendfeed wasn’t enough, along comes Swurl and from my first 15 minutes I can already say it’s worth a good and deeper look. Just like friendfeed it can aggregate all of your disparate sources yet it’s being positioned as more of a life scrapbook.

Swurl is essentially a lifecasting aggregator that pulls your current activity from web services, all the usual suspects are here: like Flickr, Twitter, Amazon, Pandora and about fifteen others.

Perhaps the coolest feature of Swurl is that the site automatically detects what kind of content it is pulling (from your other sources) and “enhance” it accordingly. So things like Flickr photos will be shown in full size along with a slide show. Another great feature is the Timeline and impressive calendar function to visualize when actions have occurred. Put on your marketing glasses as you look at this, I spy a way to monetize within this calendar. Ryan and Jonathan if you haven’t figured this out yet, give me a ping I’ve got some ideas for you.

In public beta now, no codes or referrals needed to join. And IA/UX people you’ll love the sign-up process, three simple fields, it doesn’t get much easier.

PS have to figure out security settings as it seems anything you put out there is all public all the time