Comments on: Swurl – somewhere between FriendFeed and Tumblr

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Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:24:23 +0000

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By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:17:41 +0000

Ryan, thank you for checking out my Swurl review, I may be in touch with you with an idea or two.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:18:15 +0000

Hello, thanks for writing an awesome review on Swurl! Thank you for pointing out the things you like. To answer some of your dislikes:
- Right now we are focused on bringing your content and not creating it on our own system. For now we think you should save all your links on delicious and all your photos on flickr, they are the best services for that. We may allow people do blog directly on Swurl in the future.
- We will be adding a ton more really cool services as soon as we can.
- We are still working on the FriendFeed data source, right now it just brings in your FriendFeed friends
- The timeline is trying to be a list of all your stuff on Swurl. We don't put a link to the data source there because we really don't have much space.
- We automatically create some friends for you based on your friend lists on your data sources, we don't auto follow if someone follows you
- In the live search you only get your stuff, we will try to include your friends stuff possibly later

Feel free to email me at any time,
Ryan at Swurl

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:34:09 +0000

@Andy – will do. I'm following you now on Swurl and I'll try commenting on your stuff.

@J. Phil – following you there, too. BTW, it seems like there's a delay in seeing FriendFeed stuff appear at Swurl.

@mrshl – D'OH – didn't realize that you could import RSS feeds into Tumblr, must check out.

By: mrshl

mrshl — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:23:35 +0000

Tumblr imports feeds, too. Although they have a soft maximum limit of five (you can ask for more).

By: Phil Glockner

Phil Glockner — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:59:08 +0000

Swurl is a pure aggregator and has no ways of adding content directly. It's a weird restriction but makes sense if you realize it wants to organize all your other stuff.

If you want to add something from the internets manually to swurl, add friendfeed to swurl and then use the friendfeed bookmarklet, or add a tumblr account and add something using the tumblr bookmarklet.

btw following you on swurl. mine is eng1ne.swurl.com

By: Andy DeSoto

Andy DeSoto — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:06:33 +0000

I agree with your observations, enjoyed reading. One comment to make is that the commenting system is surprisingly relatively vibrant-- even though, right, it is no FriendFeed there, it eliminates the bells and whistles yet keeps a pretty solid functionality. Leave a comment on one of my items (andy.swurl.com) maybe and we can play around. Plus the AIM integration is nice too (although it doesn't facilitate direct replies).

Good point about the name thing, though.