Garrido

LOL. That'll probably lead to a rash of "Q: w00t!" statuses. (Isn't statuses a funny-looking word?) - ha3rvey

Maybe they should go the Adocu route and only allow one-word updates. - Morton Fox

Q - l0ckergn0me

Quick are twitter tweets about WWDC. - possible248

Seesmic I've heard of what is this Youtube? - Mark Forman

Hope everything will go well for this deal :) - ledretch via twhirl

Is seesmic the new google ? - Frédérick 2 Baro

Buy Twitter while you're at it. - Vez ৩

Good work, any rebranding? YouLoiBe? - Joe Dawson

Get Yahoo while you're at it, show Microsoft how it should be done ;) - Garrido via twhirl

You're buying YouTube OMG that's awesome... you rock man! ;*) - Susan Beebe

Yea, buy twitter... they need you bad!! puuulllllllleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzee - Susan Beebe

I cahn haz Microsoft buying Yahoo? You cahn haz YouTube? - David Newman

wait, we are in June right? Is this a delayed April Fools' joke? - Rob Diana

great, so you know how to monetize that beeatch?!? ;) - dave mcclure

You should buy Google first and make a new design at their favicon^^Buying YouTube : is it serious or viral? - Samuel Goëta

Hmmm, merging with Friendfeed?-) - Patrick Chanezon

Great decision with the acquisition Loic, hope you already know how to deal with copyrighted content over there :) - Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana, yes, I found a solution with copyrighted content on Google, we will turn off video upload on YouTube. - Loic Le Meur

Loic, I hope you aren't going to turn it all off, I like some of the things over there especially the record companies who put up there content for people to listen to and enjoy!! - Paul

Of course... everything should be filmed real-time! Even the copyrighted material... :) - directeur

Lend me $20? - john conroy

Turning the uploads off is definitely a clever solution. Why have not the guys from Google thought of that yet? - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

ok so as you could see I could not raise enough money to by YouTube yet. I found $6M and would have needed $6 billions... - Loic Le Meur

OOps, I guess that M and B in $6M and $6B are a slight bit different ;*) - Susan Beebe

I'm buying Youtube too! - Dave Plumber Winer

Dave are you buying Youtube too? Ah. We're competing then, we should talk to try not to make the acquisition price not go too high. - Loic Le Meur

I offered them $82 billion, maybe I should try lowering the offer? - Dave Plumber Winer

does anyone have a beta user at all?! - Alexander Rode

would love a review- anyone actually using it? - Dino

I do have a beta, and i dont like it, maybe i am resisting change, but there it is. . - ani625

the beta looks and feels terrible. i couldn't stand using it, so I switched back - Graham Garland

can anybody post screen shots of the beta? what's so different that makes it terrible? - acedanger via twhirl

Well, it does not show one's current bookmarks, only a "snapshot" of the past (sometime in '07); The UI is terrible as Graham has mentioned.. - ani625

Is it clunky or slow or counter-intuitive? What makes it terrible? - Abby Martin

The problem is that the beta is more cosmetic than functional (at least to the users' eye) and it doesn't work with current del.icio.us tools or bookmarks. So you play with it for a while, but can't really bang on it on a day-to-day basis. - Judi Sohn

Since I have Mento, I am waiting no longer. del.icio.us is good as an archive, but that's it. If Yahoo! were able to generate personalized search results from my bookmarks, that might create value for me. - Lars Trieloff

I like the current version. It does pretty much exactly what I want it to do, nothing more and nothing less. - AJ Kohn

The current version is simple and powerful, the new version doesn't really seem to be much of an improvement and in some cases is actually worse. There don't seem to be any new features e.g. delete bookmarks people have sent you without having to save them first, they look pretty directionless to me. I did start writing a blog post entitled "Does anyone care about del.icio.us" but I've never quite got around to finishing it. - Andy Davies

What new features have been promised? I'm quite happy with the current design, even if it is a bit dated....via feedalizr - Richard Bradshaw

Yeah, not only did they reduce the memory usage in their code, but they have included a new memory allocator, jemalloc, which totally kicks ass. - Eric Florenzano

Yes and FF3 is faster since the beta version not only the RC2. - Guerwan

The fast speed and slim memory use make it worthwhile even with the lack of support for a bunch of plugins. - Neville Hobson

When plurking, always use protection. No plurking is better than unsafe plurking. Paid for A Plurk-free America PAC. - Mark Trapp

That's a publicity message for kids Andrew, nothing more. That's a "we don't want to get sued" message - Bwana McCall

I understand that, but I honestly don't think Plurk was made for heavy friending. It's just too noisy for that! - Andrew Dobrow

if you are certain people are using your service, gou can be certain they are doing so in an unexpected manner - Nailed Jello

"10 Ways to Make Sure Your Plurking Experience is Safe and Productive"... Wait...did they say:"Productive"? - directeur

@directeur I keep reading "Plurking" as "Puking", which kind of makes sense... - Diane Ensey

@Diane :D oh yes! lots of sense - directeur

so what your saying is...it'z not twitter. - Caroline

@Caroline: No, I say it's not usable and accessible and that's why I hate it :) - directeur

See here for reasons why Plurk is being misused http://www.plurk.com/safe_plur... - Andrew Dobrow

The moment you measure something, people will compete, just because. - Morton Fox

It's not about followers, it's about participation. Leo Laporte has over 1000 invited friends and 1600 friends and has a low karma. Why? He Plurks about once or twice a day. Those with high karma can have a low friend count. In my mind, the karma is a brilliant way to keep loyal users. It worked for the Xbox 360 and their achievement system and I think it'll work here. It's not for everyone however, that I can agree with. - Bwana McCall

I need only point to this plurk: http://www.plurk.com/p/1tnp to highlight the serious problems with Plurk. Plurk is like Gillmor's worst nightmare on steroids. - Mark Trapp

The problem is that in order to raise there Karma people reply with mindless bullshit rather than anything meaningful. Hiding behind the "loves" "hates" "feels" labels totally fuels the "bullshit" fire as well. It's just one massive excuse to say absolutely nothing. - Andrew Dobrow

Gillmor would implode if he got within 10 miles of Plurk, lol - Bwana McCall

Plurk is definitely more social and the current crowd that I see is less techy. Very few people are pimping their blogs and new posts. I agree with a blog post that I read that said, Twitter = ego, Plurk = fun. - Bwana McCall

You know what else grinds my gears about Plurk (while we're airing grievences :-P); the people who ask to be your friend, provide no identifiable information, and when you deny or ignore their request, they keep requesting over and over, with no recourse. I've had 3 people keep requesting to be my friend: I'm not your karma whore, back up off me plurkers! - Mark Trapp

Plurk would be fun if there was some sort of rhyme or reason to the annoying refreshing responses. Some sort of filter. - Andrew Dobrow

Pretty soon they will figure out that Karma is mostly driven by plurking and not adding friends Mark :) - Bwana McCall

Forget the Karma, I could live with that. But the noise-to-signal ratio is just... there are no words. - Andrew Dobrow

Andrew, my techniques is that I add everyone initially, if they get on my nerves, then I got my friends list and turn off timeline updates for them. I think most of the topics discussed may not be tailored for most of the Twitter crowd. Right now, it's just a giant goof off session, but I think as the community grows and "cliques" form, it'll work itself out. It's already surpassed Pownce in traffic (well, with Alexa numbers) - Bwana McCall

It's just not worth it to me. I don't feel like it's worth my time or that it's doing anything for me. I can get the same sort of banter somewhere else in a much less annoying fashion. - Andrew Dobrow

@Bwana but once everyone figures out plurking gives you karma, there will be "I'm eating a cheese sandwich" plurks. I know I don't always have the most interesting or thought provoking things to say, but I try not to post, just to post. - Michelle Martinez

I think FF is better!! - Paul

Paul, your comment is why I wish there were "likes" for comments. Though the services are way different, my time is better served on FF. - Andrew Dobrow

I don't think the Karma rewards will drive people to go that far, but yes, with every point "system" there will be some who attempt to game the system. They will promptly get removed from my timeline. - Bwana McCall

Yes that is why I like it better no goof off possible or people will hide you forever'!! - Paul

There are far better ways to get the same sort of annoying banter and lightning-round responses. I could go to my Grandma's house for that, but at least I'd get some free food out of the deal. - Andrew Dobrow

Plurk is like a gang-rape of the brain. - Andrew Dobrow

Yes your totally right!! - Paul

So Andrew, how do you really feel? :) - Bwana McCall

I think they need to adapt. Adapt to the new crowd they have pouring in. For me, it's unusable how I want to use it. - Andrew Dobrow

who needs to adapt? Plurk? Or the senseless dribble that you have in your timeline? :) - Bwana McCall

Plurk needs to adapt and allow me to filter the dribble and to not get deluged with response refreshes without using the damn mobile site. - Andrew Dobrow

Plurk is insulting to my intelligence and the UI is really problematic to say the least. EPIC FAIL!! - Susan Beebe

So in short, you don't like the timeline view? - Bwana McCall

No... I love the timeline view. I think it has great potential and it's unique, but there is something about it that is just so damn grating. It's the whole response thing. Something about it makes me close the tab just so my head doesn't explode. I don't need a notification for every response for everyone's messages. - Andrew Dobrow

I believe the UI is one thing, but Plurk is about who you follow..much like other services. If the timeline is "noisy" I think you don't want to read it which means you're following people you shouldn't be. I agree the UI isn't for everyone, but the people part I think you can control. - Bwana McCall

I don't like the fonts, the UI accessibilty and usability, I decided some years ago that i won't use any website that doesn't make few efforts to be accessible and usable. That's my choice :) - directeur

lastnight i just sat there watching the "responses" go up and only the "popular people get all the action again with the "sheep" mentality - Caroline

There are gems in the noise: For example, Wayne Sutton has been asking great questions that spark discussion. He's started a question of the day on Plurk which has been successful. I can't stress enough, it's about who you follow and who you show on the timeline. directeur is right, it is about choice and I respect those who hate the UI. I've done the same in the past. - Bwana McCall

Also, let it be known that the Digg crowd has made its way to Plurk. - Bwana McCall

What can I say, it's just not for me. It's one of those fad services. The love will pass when the noise becomes too much to bare. And then there will be the opposite problem. You'll hear pins drop. - Andrew Dobrow

You know the exact same thing was said about Twitter. Just sayin is all :) "It's a fad site that won't last a year." We'll see :) These sites rise and fall like the wind and I'm always there to be a part of it all. I love it. - Bwana McCall

I'm calling that six months down the road, no one gives a shit about Plurk other than die hard users. If it succeeds, all the power to them. But how it is now, is not for me. For all we know, they could have been behind http://twistori.com - Andrew Dobrow

Bwana McCall: I myself loved twitter from the first sight, I'm not into big social interraction I confess, I'm on IRC most of the time or geeking arround with other stuff. But I liked the minimalism in twitter, It does this, this way, input output, clear, easy, it's a product finally :) - directeur

I saw the same benefit in Twitter. It was totally text based and I know how flexible it can be. The thing I see in Plurk is not necessarily what I like, but what this upcoming generation likes. Sites like Kongregate.com thrive on the same notion that Plurk is on. The Xbox 360 took the console lead by implementing a genius achievement and gamerscore system. These kids like competition and will be loyal to it. - Bwana McCall