- It's like IM, except it archives all your old posts (which some IMing software already does) and it more readily allows you to hop on and off group threads or reanimate long dead threads. Debatable whether that's really a good thing.
- It's like email, except a lot shorter, so you don't feel pressured to write more. But isn't that what IMing is?
- It's like a blog, except you only get a 140 characters per post (including spaces). That enforced brevity might actually be a good thing in my case. I tend to ramble, after all...
- It's like all of the above, except (for now, anyway) my wife can access it from work. I guess that means I'm committed to trying it out.
Friday, June 27, 2008
What the plurk is this for?
I've been talked into setting up an account on Plurk. To be honest, I'm not sure what the point of it is.
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Plurk is a rip-off of Twitter. Kinda. Twitter has been around much longer and has a very large, very geeky community behind it.
Twitter also has a deep API which allows for some cool incarnations, like Twistori... kind of a pulse on the Twitter mind-space, which gets called "The Twit-stream".
http://chris24.ca/2008/plurk-twitter/
Personally, I think they're both silly, and use never used either. (Many coders use Twitter, though, so I'm familiar with it by proxy.) ...But I think IM is silly, too, so that's hardly helpful.
As promised, I eventually posted a review of my conclusions on Plurk, and boy did it piss some people off.
http://repeatedexpletives.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-longer-plurking.html
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