Create You Own Private Space at Shwup

From the company with a pretty weird name, Muvee, who brought us a cool desktop software called Muvee Reveal comes an online service for creating your own private on the web – Shwup. Let me back track a bit. Muvee Reveal is a nifty desktop application that lets you createawesome slideshows and music videos out of your own photos and videos. So, we would expect its online service to be a pretty service as well. And indeed it is.

Putting it simply, Shwup lets you share photos and videos with your friends and family. It’s an online hosting service for your photo albums and video gallery. It’s best characteristic is what the site calls some-to-some sharing. This simply means that you assign the friends and family members who can see your particular photos or videos. Having a friend see one of your albums would not mean that they can your other albums.

Your friends or family don’t need to register to Shwup to view the the album that you want them to see. Once you invite them, an email will be sent with a customized link for the URL of your Shwup albums.In a way Shwup is taking away a tiny part of social photo sharing and that is having anyone see your stuff.

And finally, Shwup accepts various digital photo files including JPG, BMP, GIF and PNG. Interestingly it accepts video file such as MPG, MPEG, WMV, MOV, AVI, QT, 3GP and MP4. Take note of that YouTube.

Creating your online album is easy as well. Right after you create an account, you can start creating your photo/video album and start uploading stuff.

Here’s a sample of the photo album that I created using Shwup.

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