Hey guy’s have you ever heard about the term plurking? If not then let me tell you about this latest social-networking site that I’ve visited that is turning other people to plurking addicts. Plurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as plurks) through short messages or links, which can be up to 140 text characters in length.
Updates are then shown on the user’s home page using a timeline which lists all the updates received in chronological order, and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Users can respond to other users’ updates from their timeline through the Plurk.com website, by instant messaging, or by text messaging.
Plurk was developed by and envisioned as a communication medium meant to form a balance between blogs and social networks, and between e-mail messaging and instant messaging. After months of development, Plurk was launched on May 2008.
The etymology of the name was explained by the developers as such:
* abbreviation of ‘people’ and ‘lurk’
* portmanteau of ‘play’ and ‘work’
* acronym of peace, love, unity, respect, and karma
* verb neologism, similar to how Google was eventually used as a verb
Plurk’s interface shows updates in horizontal form through a scrollable timeline written in JavaScript and updated through AJAX. Users can post new messages with optional ‘qualifiers’, which are one-word verbs used to represent a thought (e.g. “feels”, “thinks”, “loves”, etc.). There are also advanced features such as sending updates only to a subset of your friends, posting updates on events earlier in the day, and sharing images, videos, and other media.
Plurk also supports group conversations between friends and allows usage of emoticons together with the usual text micro-blogging.
The Plurk.com developers does not yet have an API released to the public, however an unofficial but supported Plurk API is hosted on Google Code.
So if these informations didn’t thrill you then check out these Links and start plurking your way into a new breed of social-networking and be one with the rest of the world.
External Links
* Plurk.com homepage
* Plurk Collaborative Translation Project
* Plurk Layouts – style your Plurk profile
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