Robert Scoble

Although she does still use Windows Live Spaces for her blogging service. That's more annoying than Plurk is, so maybe her judgment isn't all that great. - Robert Scoble

Very cute! - Mitchell Tsai

What, no karma love for her? Me neither. - Hutch Carpenter

all things excessively cute are annoying. one must push past the annoyance, and come to embrace the cuteness, in the ironic hipster sense. "why YES please give me more of these animated GIF emoticons designed in 1997, thank you..." - Karim

i am talking myself out of plurk, even as i wrote that... :-P on the other hand, would it kill FriendFeed to throw in some animated GIFs? *WINK* - Karim

I dont know what a lot of you have got against plurk. Its a superb conversation platform, similar to digg in the sense that you can easily have multiple conversations at the same time....plus, its reliable, always active & visually customizable. The timeline system actually works really well and people are generally awesome in their thoughts & sharing. If there's any down sides; a) the odd emoticon can get annoying and b) it is very very addictive. - Zee.

Zee: I'm very certain what you say is true. I just don't like the design of it. But, then, I don't like MySpace either, and look at how well that's done. - Robert Scoble

Zee - the karma thing is a turnoff. It seems to make plurking some sort of competition. - Hutch Carpenter

lol, woah! you cant compare plurk's design to myspace!?! :) Of course the fact that you don't like the design is your call, but the attention to detail in plurks is like a work of art in comparison to the devils playground. I love clean & simple as much as the next person - and absolutely ADORE friendfeed...but Plurk really has got a lot going for it & frankly it may be one of the few startups to succeed without your help! :) - Zee.

Zee: oh, I am helping it. Just this note here is helping it. Out of the thousands of things I've gotten press releases for, how many do I mention either pro or con? Very few. The things that I've been very anti have done just fine. MSN Spaces, for instance. Amazon Kindle, for instance. And this. - Robert Scoble

Zee, you're right. I like the embedded videos and pictures in addition to the conversation threads; the mobile Plurk UI is very nice and they certainly seem to have more uptime than Twitter. I am a little burnt out on trying to increase my karma, though. The care-and-feeding tamagotchi aspect suddenly became annoying. - Karim

ok, now i should be charging Plurk for my PR services. But i'll tell you how i feel about the Karma @Hutch. It really, genuinely helped with getting people to try out the service. Yes, the idea is to motivate you to use the service - however, it cleverly made you get your friends on there, make friends, plurk & respond...and in doing so - the addiction kicks in. And frankly, nearly everyone of these services twitter, friendfeed and the rest of them have a fair bit of competitiveness involved... - Zee.

I like a Man who love his wife :D - atalmatal

Scoble, yeah ur right. In that respect you are, but i guess what i mean is - the community within Plurk is really holding up without the "super-heavyweights" of social media, you included. - Zee.

Thanks Zee. Twitter has some of that competitiveness in that you can see the number of subscribers. FriendFeed really doesn't. Can you find out how many subscribers I have? No, because the FriendFeed guys have hidden that from public view. And there's no other reputational score you'll find for me here. Hopefully you'll enjoy my comments, likes and content. That's good enough. - Hutch Carpenter

Zee: really? Funny. It was Leo Laporte who kicked Plurk off. If he hadn't have talked about it, I would probably never have heard about it (and most of the people I see on Plurk landed there because of him). - Robert Scoble

What do you think about utterz ( http://www.utterz.com/home)? - alireza

Karim, with regards to improving Karma - i reckon screw it. I mean they dont chuck you off the site for not improving on your Karma but it just helps with customizing the look of your plurk page more than anything else. In fact, there are a heap of people on there who couldnt give two plurks about their karma...and just use the site for the same reasons people use twitter. - Zee.

Utterz needs a new name - Grant

Scoble, agreed, Leo brought in a heap of people as he always does. And really its going to be difficult for me to say the percentage of people on there who are on there because of him. But, it takes more than just the 1st introduction to keep people on there and a lot of people *are* staying on there. I'm just saying that I think it takes more than one mention from a social media heavy weight to keep a site popular - and i reckon Plurk is a good example of that. - Zee.

Is there your Plurk account? - Igor Poltavskiy

yeah, i'm at http://www.plurk.com/user/zsec... - Zee.

I looked at Plurk, but thought it was too complicated. Friendfeed on the other hand seems to be getting things right... I *sort* of treat Friendfeed like browsing a newspaper. - Jonathan Beckett

I really like plurk too- it's simple, quick, easy, the commenting WORKS and... well it's something actually kinda new. it's almost like having several IRC channels going at once... - Snipergirl

plurk is good at the start but once you get tired of the interface, it is annoying. Was there before -- pulled by Leo Laporte but dumped it after a few days. - Rom Feria

Love it. But, I like having conversations. - Arron Washington

I found out about Plurk through Leo. I find Plurk to be a great tool for conversations, similar to FriendFeed. The interface definitely had to grow on me and I find the mobile version to be a great start. - Elmer Thomas

I also like Plurk (sometimes better then Twitter). Apart from the 'seem to be cluttered' interface and the 'not so loveable' Karma system, it's actually quite good for having conversation, good conversation, not a chat around the drink machine. Somebody pointed out about the fact that Twitter is about User, but Plurk is about conversation, and I agree with this. - Chris Prakoso

Don't like Plurk & wondering why everyone else does.......... - ChaCha Fance via Alert Thingy

@ChaChaFance read up... - Zee.

To those of you who are wondering why there are all sorts of Plurk advocates here, Zee went over to Plurk and pointed them here. Personally I like FriendFeed's conversation, UI, and feature set a LOT more (wait until they discover the search engine here that indexes IN REAL TIME). - Robert Scoble

Search engine is not-quite real-time. Usually 5 min delay. Sometimes 30-90 min, and occasionally craps out for 4-24 hrs. (Big Plus: Doesn't crash anymore for funky characters like "?" which are Unix wildcards.) - Mitchell Tsai

Lol, don't make it sound like its a sinister thing to do. I just want to show people that there are people out there who love plurk. And also, since when are we comparing friendfeed & Plurk? I LOVE friendfeed and LOVE plurk. Oh and here's the link to the plurk if anyone fancies a read: http://www.plurk.com/p/10hhb - Zee.