{"id":822,"date":"2008-06-03T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2008-06-03T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T17:38:13","slug":"plurkcom-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/plurkcom-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Plurk.com Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it?<\/h3>\n

<\/a>In short, it’s a twitter clone, a time waster, with a little more thought into it. Is it more complex? Maybe not, sometimes the right added functionality makes life easier for people. <\/p>\n

Why you should try it?<\/h3>\n

I tried Jaiku, Pwnce, FriendFeed and Twitter, and stayed with Twitter. I’m actually proud to say that I’ve sent 6,801 Twitts that have landed me 390 twitter followers, and this is probably the hardest thing about switching from Twitter to another competitor, as good as it may be.<\/p>\n

But from last week I’ve been hearing about Plurk, and today after some good web-reputable friends joined I decided to give it a try (see the power of web-prestige?), before they joined I just thought… “another twitter competitor”.<\/p>\n

The added functionality might make things better, it’s probably the evolution of micro-blogging happening, and twitter needs better competition in order to get better.
\n<\/p>\n

What’s New?<\/h3>\n

For now I’ve spotted some new things like:<\/p>\n

  • Smart links<\/strong> to share YouTube videos or pictures (flickr urls should point to the photo page not the photo url)<\/li>\n
  • Qualifiers<\/strong>, you can select a “verb” to specify what you want to write about e.g. “thinks”, “shares”. This makes you talk about yourself in 3rd person (very much like \/me in IRC)<\/li>\n
  • Karma<\/strong>. Updated every 24 hours, supposedly based on how active you’ve been and how many people you’ve invited. The more Karma you get, the more Emoticons available, also some features are unlocked, like having an “About” section available.<\/li>\n
  • Cliques<\/strong>. You can create groups of friends, or co-workers, and you can send plurks only to your cliques, pretty cool.<\/li>\n
  • Edit a message<\/strong>. In twitter you need to delete your twitt and twitt it again. In Plurk you can just edit your message<\/li>\n

    What’s it made of?<\/h3>\n

    Plurk seems to be written in Python\/MySQL\/Linux on the backend and JavaScript\/ActionScript (and all the rest of AJAX stuff you need [HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML,etc etc]) this according to their Jobs<\/a> section.<\/p>\n

    Next Page: What it needs?<\/a>
    \n<\/p>\n

    What it needs?<\/h3>\n

    I see no signs of an API, something I found pretty much the day I tried twitter the first time, and which I think has given twitter a whole ecosystem of clients and sites revolving around its public timeline and users (IM clients, Phone clients, Web Clients, Statistics, Search, WordPress Integration, etc). A-Team you need an API ASAP.<\/p>\n

    \"PlurkPlurk needs an API, and probably alternate views, the whole PERT style visualization sucks, it makes it hard to read. But I guess it’s probably a decision to make themselves different from other competitors.<\/p>\n

    Also the Invite Friends feature, currently allows you to spam your friends, but it’d be more useful if they allowed you to enter your Twitter username and password and send the plurk invite via Twitter, at least you know all those people are more likely to try out this service than anyone else. It’d be so evil, but it’d work a lot better than email invites. Although… thinking about it, all you gotta do is send a twitter telling all your followers to try out plurk.com :p<\/p>\n

    Follow me!<\/h3>\n

    Follow me on Plurk<\/a>
    \n    Follow me on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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