Swurl to bring social networks together

If you’ve ever used a microblogging tool like Tumblr then Swurl will not be alien for you. Swurl is a platform that automatically brings all of your social networking activities together into a blog format. Perhaps, its best feature is the timeline view, that presents all your desired contents in an organized calendar view.

Besides the timeline view, Swurl also allows you to customize your activities in a blog-type format. If you don’t want to send the URL to your FriendFeed page to your classmate, then you may send her to a Swurl page instead.

The basic idea behind Swurl’s development is to centralize the conversation instead of having it scattered about among your different networks. Swurl currently supports the following:

Once you setup these services, they will be aggregated for you on the main page. All kinds of visual treats like a cool slideshow viewer, elegant captions on your photos, flash audio player etc can be found inside of each item. Another great feature is the way that commenting and discussion is conveniently integrated into the main page.

There are few areas in which Swurl needs to improve. One of them is viewing your friends’ activities. You probably won’t use it unless it is very casual. But over all, the look and feel of the site is rewarding and extremely instinctive. Swurl’s aggregation of relationships from all networks encourages the network growth, but doesn’t force you to work inside its own barriers.