Plurk Update

Posted by Pixelhead

Here is my week one Plurk update, which includes stuff I have learned since using Plurk for about a week now. Read Lifecasting On Plurk, my first Plurk post.

Search for Plurk and Twitter Users with Google

Here is a little Google Search Engine that I customized to search both Twitter and Plurk users. I wanted to be able to find users that were near me, so I decided to try this out. Check it out and let me know what you think. Too bad I couldn’t hook up my Google Adsense code to this.

Checking Plurk Updates

Written by Pixelhead on June 18th, 2008 with 18 comments.
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Patrick Everett
#1. June 19th, 2008, at 6:15 AM.

I’ve heard about Plurk but I haven’t signed up for it yet. I’m still sitting on the fence if I should add that to my growing lost of social networking applications or not. Any significant difference with Twitter, other than the Karma thing and the UI?

Pixelhead
#2. June 19th, 2008, at 9:57 AM.

As Darren said in his Problogger post about the main difference between Twitter and Plurk, conversations on Twitter are one way, were as on Plurk, when you get a conversation going, much like a blog, everyone can see the conversation and get involved.

spostareduro
#3. June 19th, 2008, at 10:21 AM.

i dont even want to look at my karma there..i havent been plurking so i may have lost my bananas! boooooooooooooooo!

spostareduro
#4. June 19th, 2008, at 10:23 AM.

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=005052578602272209132%3Ajk27fa-bfmw&ie=UTF-8&q=pixelhead&sa=Search

haha..so it is.

Nicole Price
#5. June 19th, 2008, at 3:46 PM.

I simply do not have the band width. No thanks, not for me!

Secret Affiliate Code
#6. June 19th, 2008, at 4:09 PM.

I haven’t heared about plurk before. I’ll check it out now.

Is it really worth signing up with plurk or twitter? Would you recommend it?
I have a small online business and time is very limited.

Thanks
Daniel

Pixelhead
#7. June 19th, 2008, at 4:15 PM.

Both Twitter and Plurk can take up a lot of time, but both can help you with a variety of your marketing needs. I would suggest reading any of Probloggers posts on using them for marketing purposes.

Secret Affiliate Code
#8. June 19th, 2008, at 4:32 PM.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer my question. I’ll go and read the Probloggers posts about it.

Thanks again

Daniel

Arijadna
#9. June 20th, 2008, at 12:23 PM.

More and more people seem to be using Plurk guessing the reason behind it as you mentioned is ability to have a conversation. Although I will agree that it has high marketing value think a lot of us will find it somewhat hard to use it to it’s full potential as it is very time consuming in my opinion, so one might see rather minor benefit from it compared to invested time.

Pixelhead
#10. June 20th, 2008, at 1:51 PM.

Arijadna, I think there are multiple ways that a business could use Plurk. One method would be to create a Clique of your business associates and have an ongoing conversation about business developments. A supervisor could use it to keep in touch with his subordinates and such. Not to mention keeping in touch with customers and to let them know about business updates etc.

Arijadna
#11. June 20th, 2008, at 2:15 PM.

I agree about that Plurk is useful and that are multiple ways you can improve your business using it, interaction with (potential) customers or with people in the same community being possibly the most important ones. I’m was just trying to point out that all that can be really time consuming and that people that don’t have enough time to dedicate to it might see dubious results at best. Sorry if my first comment wasn’t clear enough and I really appreciate the reply.

Utah Personal Injury Lawyer
#12. June 20th, 2008, at 3:47 PM.

I had never even hear of Plurk until I read the couple blog posts you have about it. I am definitely intrigued. I have used Twitter for a few months now and it is fun but only if you can friends that are fun to talk to, it took me forever because a lot of my friends aren’t tech savvy so Twitter means nothing. This Plurk seems almost like a social networking game, which adds a whole new element.

Wayne
#13. June 26th, 2008, at 6:03 PM.

I’ve considered going to Plurk or Twitter, but I’m worried that I won’t have enough bandwidth to keep things going. how do you manage it or work it to your benefit?

Pixelhead
#14. June 26th, 2008, at 11:51 PM.

Plurk is cool for getting conversations going and also sharing info, such as posts you just wrote. You might go on to plurk and ask your peeps for feed back on a post you just wrote. I am sure there are tons of ways to use for networking purposes.

Rajeev Edmonds
#15. June 27th, 2008, at 7:23 AM.

I came to know about Plurk through Chris Garret’s AB blog pack fellow blogger. I immediately signed up for it, but was not impressed by the horizontal time line. It was a bit confusing for me. Maybe, I am a huge twitter fan and instinctively resisted this social media service. I still prefer twitter and feel at home when socializing on it.

Jeff Casmer
#16. June 27th, 2008, at 7:13 PM.

I am involved in alot of social bookmarking sites and never even heard of Plurk. I obviously need to give it a try. I do love Twitter though. Its a fantastic social tool service.

Take care
Jeff Casmer
Computer Work Home

Calla
#17. July 9th, 2008, at 4:20 PM.

I am still not using PLurk. But I think your post will result my subscribtion to it. Thank you for this update

Internet Security Guy
#18. July 15th, 2008, at 8:43 AM.

I got aware of this AdSense search box recently too, and I must admit it allows me to monetize my site’s potential I wasn’t aware of till recently. This gadget is highly customizable and you can decide where the ads are appearing in search results. I thinks the major advantage for ad-clickers is that it displays only highly relevant pages containing the keywords they are looking for, so if there’s nothing interested on your homepage for them, they will click the ad. Very clever indeed.

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