Plurk hates iPlurk, creates its own iPhone app
A few weeks ago, I had some problems with iPlurk, an iPhone app for the micro-messaging service Plurk. My main beef with the app was that the third-party developers who made it failed to capture what makes Plurk unique in its field. Well, I’ve got some good news: Plurk itself has come around and released its own iPhone app today.
The app, dubbed simply ”Plurk,” bests iPlurk in many ways. In the main timeline view you can now see the… Continue Reading
iPlurk brings a bland Plurk to the iPhone
In the micro-messaging space there is Twitter and then everyone else. But Plurk is one of those “everyone elses” that is somewhat interesting because it at least attempts to look different than a straight-up Twitter clone. Unfortunately, a new iPhone app for the service fails to take advantage of that differentiating factor.
Plurk, to me, is interesting because of its unique look with a timeline view for status updates. Rather than your standard vertical stream up… Continue Reading
Once again, Twitter’s death is laid out. Once again, users will fail to notice
In a post on its developer blog a couple days ago, Twitter API lead developer Alex Payne outlined what the service is doing with the vast amount of data it’s receiving everyday. Payne discussed the service’s use of application programming interfaces (APIs), feeds and pinging services to give third parties and users the information they want from Twitter. He also revealed that Twitter is now staffing a project (including Payne himself) to come up with… Continue Reading
Twitter gets its sexy back. And by “sexy” I mean users.
The third party site traffic analytic tools were unanimous: usage of Twitter went down fairly substantially during the middle of June. That tends to happen when you service simply doesn’t work. This lead many to proclaim that other services such as Plurk, Identi.ca and FriendFeed were on the verge of rising up to take its place.
There was just one problem with that — none of those service had anywhere near the number of users that… Continue Reading
Twitter or FriendFeed? There can be more than one.
I awoke this morning with over 30 friend requests on FriendFeed sitting in my inbox. I’ve been using and raving about the aggregation/conversation site FriendFeed for about eight months now, but have not seen a rapid influx of users quite like we’re seeing today. Why is that?
It’s simple. Twitter, the micro-messaging service that has won the hearts of somewhere north of a million users (Twitter won’t give out actual usage numbers), is still not working… Continue Reading
Plurk: Twitter meets FriendFeed
(Update: One of the founders, subtly nicknamed “Plurk Overlord,” has contacted me, to correct the misinformation I had posted about Alvin Woon being a sole founder of the service. Plurk is funded, based in Ontario, Canada, and has a team of seven)
While perusing the internet recently, I stumbled upon a cool new site called Plurk. The site, launched January 23 by user interface specialist Alvin Woon, looks a tiny bit familiar. That’s because it combines… Continue Reading