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Comment on The Ultimate Twitter by Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:50:22 +0000

I am not a twitter fan. I was initially, but it got boring. It made me feel like a spammer, and a stalker, since it is all pretty much one way.

I can reply to people, but unless they follow me, it is unlikely they will see my replies, and even if they do follow me my reply gets lost in the sea of noise.

Plurk does have a much higher learning curve, but it is so much more engaging and worthwhile. I agree that it needs a better IM then the private plurk option since those are generally missed as well, but plurk does have a basic API and I know a few people have developed outside apps for it.

Great post though

Stephen aka darthweef

Comment on The Ultimate Twitter by Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:13:27 +0000

Twitter should buy Plurk, reskin it to look exactly like Twitter, then introduce commenting as a new feature and play it off like nothing happened.

Comment on The Ultimate Twitter by Adam

Adam — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:16:59 +0000

Agree with most of the points in the post but Ben is also right. As much as I hate Twitter and vow to switch whenever it goes down I never find myself doing so. While I actually at first glance prefer the look of Plurk I just can’t get myself to use it as much as I Twitter, I’ll keep trying though. It may be that I just have to break old habits.

Comment on The Ultimate Twitter by Alex

Alex — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:17:02 +0000

I see your point, however this is the first competitor where big people are switching to, for example, Molly Wood, Tom Merritt, Jason Howell, Leo Laporte who is Slowly switching, I’m seeing more and more people switching over. Jaiku was fun for a while (say a week) but after a month Plurk is still growing strong and so are the members. They have a Twitter search on Plurk so you can find your old Twitter friends on Plurk, and I was amazed at how many people had a Plurk account.

Comment on The Ultimate Twitter by Ben

Ben — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:34:45 +0000

Very strong opinion @alex! However, even with Twitter breaking down every now and then, I am finding people twittering regardless.

I think people would not bother switching services. Twitter’s competitors are too different. Yes, it is their goal, but users can’t comprehend the switch.

Just an opinion.

Comment on Clean Command line Google searching! by Cheetah

Cheetah — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:17:19 +0000

Quick hint: if the first set of results doesn’t get you what you were looking for, just hit enter again. You get more results!

Comment on Clean Command line Google searching! by Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:04:27 +0000

Love it.

Comment on Why I now Hate embed codes! by Rosie

Rosie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:53:38 +0000

I know what you mean. When I get an embed code from some website, I always check the code and see if I can improve it to make it XHTML Strict. As a developer and designer, you have to be able to make it Strict. However, for normal use ‘Transitional’ would work as well. I changed the doc type to Strict. I could change it to Transitional if that would mean your embed codes would work without errors. But that’s usually not the case.

Btw, edit your links CNETTV and Flickr, right now they do not have www, even worse, no http:// in the code. It won’t link to the sites, it will just give an error on your own site.

Comment on Why I now Hate embed codes! by Cranky Canuck

Cranky Canuck — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:50:52 +0000

You said a mouth full. I also hate the way some of the embeds also slow down your sites loading.

It isn’t your hosting server that is at issue but the supplier of the content that you use. When your able to host the content locally, you don’t have that issue.

Comment on Checking out Plurk! by Alex

Alex — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:37:40 +0000

Click on that Click here link and then go back to the frontpage of Plurk It should say: Alex Fa. Has an invite for you etc and then you can sign up