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0 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 problems with the app was that the...

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0 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...

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0 HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Posterous

There’s something interesting happening in the space between Twitter and a full blown blog. We’re seeing more and more of our social friends turn to...

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0 Twitter Might Start Adding Comments & Location-Based Information to Each Tweet

At the 140 Twitter Conference yesterday, Alex Payne, Twitter's API lead told Robert Scoble that Twitter might soon add location-based information to...

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0 SiteRapture Adds Services to its Micro-blogging Category (Twitter Clones)

We have added more services to our micro-blogging / short URL services category (Twitter type services). The services currently listed are: CitySpeek...

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0 Plurk Adds Real-Time Search. Doesn’t Mention Twitter.

Plurk, a micro-messaging service similar to Twitter, today added a nice new feature: Real-time conversation search. As you might expect, it allows you...

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0 Plurk Launches Real Time Conversational Search

Finally, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief! It’s been by far and away the most requested feature since we first launched Plurk less than...

  • Source: plurk.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: May 4, 2009
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0 Microblogging Service Rejaw Shuts Down: A Victim of Twitter's Success?

Last summer, while Twitter was struggling to keep its servers running consistently, a number of rivaling microblogging services like Plurk and Rejaw...

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0 Quub: The Status Update Reinvented

With the rise of the status update has come a smattering of sites that let you update your status everywhere.

Newcomer Quub, which launches in public...

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0 China, Plurk Wants to Make Peace, Not War! Please Lift the Ban!

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi

Fellow Plurkers, we have some very troubling news...

  • Source: plurk.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Apr 27, 2009
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0 China Blocks Micro-Messaging Site Plurk. Is Twitter Next?

As micro-messaging spreads overseas, the threat of censorship looms in certain parts of the world. Yesterday Plurk, a micro-messaging service that...

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0 Rumor: Barnes and Noble eReader Coming Soon? Could It Be Called the BNindle?

TheStreet has a juicy rumor that Barnes & Noble, a store where physical "books" in "paper" form are sold to "customers" who stand in line to pay with...

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0 April Fools’ Contest

It’s time to get pranking, punking, and plurking! Ha! I got you already; no one still actively uses Plurk, do they?
Every year Google seems to top...

  • Source: viddler.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 25, 2009
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0 HOW TO: Manage Multiple Social Media Profiles

Start counting the number of social media websites you have a profile with, right now. Out of fingers yet? Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube...

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0 How Facebook, Google, and Yahoo Are Making Ads Part of Your Life

The Valley's biggest players are all racing to be the center of your online life, collecting your photos, blog posts, Twitter messages, and comments...

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0 How to meet new interesting plurkers

Plurk is a great place to meet new people with similar interest or belong to the same location. Here are some tips on how you can better explore...

  • Source: plurk.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 12, 2009
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0 Down with the Sickness - A Quick Explanation on Downtime Over the Past Month

In late December/early January, many of you were understandably upset and had asked for explanations regarding our instability and frequent downtime...

  • Source: plurk.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 4, 2009
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0 how to protect yourself against bad plurkers.

One of Plurk’s early design philosophy is to create a safe social networking environment where users can protect themselves and have full control over...

  • Source: plurk.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 1, 2009
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0 Plinky Offers a New Twist on Microblogging

If you’re chomping at the bit for another social site to tell the world what you think about things, then you’re in luck. Plinky, which launches...

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0 Jaiku, Plurk Get New iPhone Apps

Both Jaiku and Plurk are coming up on the app radar this week. Screenshots and links inside.

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