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June 6, 2008
The social networking side of the net has really be exploding lately. Web Apps like [ Twitter ], [ Facebook ], [ Pownce ], and even [ Digg ] have created an almost viral desire for people to stay connected on a real time basis.
When blogging began to be used on a personal level, it was a great way to find out what was happening in people’s lives on a daily / weekly basis and we saw a whole new medium of socal contact being born. Enter Twitter and now, instead of a daily mass of blog to read, you were able to get 140 character updates from people sent to your computer, or your phone… Life was good, albiet a little distracting.
Twitter, however, has now become more known for being unavailable, then it is for being a revolutionary way of communicating. While I think it is a little unfair, they are bringing that onto themselves since they can’t seem to keep the site up and running for more then a few hours at a time.
Enter [ Plurk ]. Yeah, I didn’t misspell that. Plurk is the newest addition to the “micro-blogging” world, and it is something else. The time line takes a little getting used to, but I think that was you do get used to it, it is much better for maintaining conversations, which is something always bothered me about twitter. I will get responses on twitter to something I said hours, even days, ago and have no idea what they are talking about. Whereas plurk keeps everything in a nice little box connected to your original statement.
Plurk is obviously a “Work in progress”, but is definitely enjoyable being a part of a new and fresh community, so I am happy to help them work out the bugs.
Plurk will have to start providing some external apps to allow you to break free from the browser, but I know that will be coming. They also need to provide a way to stop being updated on certain topics.. For instance, I am “friends” with Leo Laporte, meaning that I get his plurks, and he gets mine (along with several thousand other people ) and every time he says ANYTHING he get about 200 responses. Personally I am not interested in reading all the fan boy responses, so I would like the option of shutting that off .
All-in-all… plurk is very addicting, and I like the Karma aspect of it, makes plurking almost like a game where you earn points, and then get cooler stuff from the site.
I think that Plurk will need to pay close attention to the mistakes that Twitter has made, and correct them before they are made, since the overall feel of the plurking community is that they are shifting from Twitter to Plurk, and with heavy users like Leo Laporte, and the c|net crew making use of plurk, it has already starting to show sign of hiccuping…
So, come join me in the Social Networking world :
You can plurk me at [ Plurk ]
You can follow me on Twitter : [ Twitter ]
You can Pownce me at [ Pownce ]
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