^ sis I googled it for you what plurk is about: you can click on the link:
http://www.blahblahtech.com/2008/06/what-is-plurk.htmlIn their own words, Plurk is a:
“a really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life, and follow the events of the people that matter to you, in deliciously digestible short messages called Plurks.â€
Here are some of Plurks pros and cons so far:
Pros
* Quite unlike Twitter, user names don’t take up the text allowance in messages.
* Messages (or Plurks) allow for a variety of different message types, not being restricted to what you’re actually doing.
* Threaded conversations, similar to Pownce.
* Use of a time line, that runs horizontally across the screen, with the past to the right.
* Support for YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket et cetera, all within the timeline frame.
* A quirky, but intuitive interface.
* Being able to create Cliques, which are small groups of friends, where they can chat privately.
* All new Plurks and responses are compiled for you.
* A really slick Private Messaging system a la Facebook style; also when you hover over a Plurk, you’ll see a downward triangle beside the persons picture / name, which gives you a Private Messaging option.
* Plurk uses Karma as a metric for people’s activity. As your Karma increases, more options / features are made available.
* It’s possible to use Private Messages in a Plurk page as a separate conversation window, without the time line.
* Scrolling through the time line supports the scroll wheel on a mouse, as well as the arrow keys.
* It’s possible to edit Plurk messages, but not replies.
* There’s a mobile option, which will be interesting for some.
Cons
* There’s a bug with the Alert count, where it shows something’s there, but when you click there isn’t.
* As more people come on-line, the whole thing begins to creak quite badly, taking ages to load. Plurk is new, so we’ll allow for these things for now.
* It’s not possible to have multiple conversations open at once.
* Despite support for mobile Plurking, there appears to be no support for geolocation / geotagging.
* Could do with a “ignore future responses on this post†option (by user, by time frame, or by manual select)
* Could maybe benefit from a Firefox Add-on, or a desktop client application.
As a social network, Plurk has huge potential. But that potential is potentially locked up elsewhere, on other services like Twitter and Pownce.
For now, the curious, the early adopters and the disaffected of the both Twitter and Pownce are presently populating Plurk, while everyone else ponders the prospect of becoming a Plurkoid for themself…
Source: Link above
