Plurk and Twitter

First let me start by saying, I love using Plurk! Together with friends we have created a wonderful community on Plurk. But, there is a problem, No Official API with which we could have some Wonderful third party tools to access Plurk. There are a couple of iPhone apps and some failed web apps/Blackberry apps.

A moblie web page does exist for Plurk, but it's just not a great way to access Plurk.

I created a Plurk account on June 1st 2008 and never looked back. I basically stopped using Twitter after I created my Plurk account. (My Twitter account was created in April '07)

Why? Friend KDFrawg said it best last year in his blog post: Twitter and Plurk, Announcements and Conversations.

Then something happened in March/April 2009, I got tired of carrying a backpack to work every morning and back home every night. Why was I carrying this bag? It was to tote my notebook back and forth from home to work and work to home. I used the notebook to listen to podcasts/steaming radio/audio books and best of all to access Plurk, it gave me a solid 2hours a day with which to connect to friends.

I noticed a plug for a Standard earphone on my Blackberry. So I looked on the net and found some apps for the Blackberry which would let me listen to streaming audio and I was able load mp3 music to the Blackberry via the 8gb mem card I had placed into it. I then found out about Blackberry apps for twitter. (yes, I know iPhone does all this, but the Blackberry was 'free')

I noticed a number of Plurk friends where using twitter in much the same way we used Plurk.

I then started every morning using the Blackberry to 'tweet' with the friends and using Twitter like an 'off-line' Plurk.

It's been a busy time at work but, I noticed you could run Tweetdeck and get notices when a "tweet" came in. So I created a group in Tweetdeck of my known Plurk friends, which allowed me to keep updated with them while I worked. I was still using Plurk, but found it easier to keep up with Plurk friends via Tweetdeck.

I started tweeting on #followfriday all of the Plurk friend friends I had found/friended on twitter. Doing so with the hope we could grow the community on twitter as we have on Plurk.

So after a few months of getting back into using Twitter, I see how we have turned twitter from just a "notice" site into a bit of what we have on Plurk with just a different interface.

Maybe Twitter is our Plurk App?

Plurk Failure

Doesn't look like a good thing.

A "Thank You to Plurkville"

The Community we have created in Plurk goes beyond what was originality thought of as Plurk and has pushed the limits.

We have created something from nothing, may it continue to live online and offline in the real world.

Using Plurk we have:

Seen the warmth given when Plurkers are not well.

Seen Plurkers travel and visiting other Plurkers.

Learning from other Plurkers.

The sending of Christmas Cards between Plurkers.

Learning about different foods and recipes.

Enjoying nights of Plurktalk; when Plurkers get together to talk with each other, even getting to see Plurkers via the webcams.

Thank You for the time and support you have given to our fellow Plurkers.

Without You there would be no Community, without the Community, we are just twitter sideways and nobody wants that.

Thank You Plurkville for being a wonderful place.

Plurk is down.

I awake to find this. Hope they get better soon.

Gone (A Plurk Poem)

Gone (A Plurk Poem)

Today I awoke
You were not there

Today I went to work
You were not there

Today I went to lunch
You were not there

Today I came home
You were not there

Today I saw you
You were not well

Today I missed you
You "Plurk" have returned


Inspired by the Plurk outage of July 18, 2008
http://www.plurk.com/p/1inbr

We had a bad day together on Friday, Plurk and I
I was there waiting for plurk
But plurk was not to be found
So I had to express the feeling of loss the best way i knew how