Swurl.com - Bring Your Web Life Together

Swurl takes all of your online life and turns it into one continuous social stream. It’s like writing a blog without actually having to put in the effort of adding entries and content. Swurl takes your latest activity on sources such as Amazon, Digg, FriendFeed, Flickr, Pandora, Twitter, YouTube, WordPress, and Facebook, and aggregates it into one long infinite scrolling page, updating it as you update your other sites. Your latest Flickr images can be viewed in full size as a very slick slideshow without any effort on your part. If you make a Netflix order, they automatically post a trailer for the movie onto your page. The end product is kind of like a scrapbook or yearbook of sorts, keeping track of your web activity by piecing together all things communicating about your life in complete form, not just adding a snippet from each source. People can also comment on your site, turning your web life into a conversation far more social than just they typical blog comment. Your friends’ accounts are automatically added to a list, allowing you to see an aggregation across all of the sources of their actions. Another cool feature is the timeline view, which takes all of the postings and turns them into a fresh looking calendar. If you want to keep updated on all of your friends’ activity from one source while creating a lifestreamed log of your online activity, check out Swurl.

"Swurl is a place to bring all the things you do online together to share in a blog-like format."

The site is incredibly easy to set up and personalize, and the way that the content is presented is clean and well done. Commenting is set up in a way that encourages conversations, leading to people checking back often to the site to keep up to date with everyone’s activity. The fact that your friends’ feeds from other sources are automatically added to your site is one more way that Swurl makes its site effortless.

Some of the sources are tricky to set up for your homepage. Will they make this clearer? Will people use this site instead of FriendFeed if they’re already set up there?