Plurk.com

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A microblogging site that stands as a rival to the famous, Twitter. It is known as Plurk. Created by The A-team, it was launched on May 12, 2008. Ever since it’s launching, it has been successful to date. It has a vast growing group of fans from the Southeast Asia region, (over 31% Plurk traffic comes from Taiwan, where as over 29% comes from the Southeast Asia region).

According to Akan (1/7 of The A-team), Plurk is an etymological deconstruction of the word you love to hate.

He goes on explaining that; (1) Plurk = People + Lurk, (2) Play + Work, (3) The Acronym = People, Love, Unity, Respect, Karma, and (4) It could be a verb potential, for example how Google is used as a word, “Oh, I googled it!” / “Oh, I plurked it!”.

The view of each profile is seen as a timeline that would be updated with random status updates by the Plurk members. Other Plurk members are allowed to comment on the updates that could lead to a chat log. JavaScript is used for the scrollable timeline to be written on, where as it is renewed through AJAX.

The A-team.

More to come in the next chapter ; Twitter vs Plurk. Which would prevail to become the Future in microblogging?

To sign up to Plurk.com ; http://www.plurk.com/Users/showRegister

1. Plurk, the new Twitter? [Online], Retrieved 7^th February 2010. URL: http://www.techleader.co.za/stii/2008/06/03/plurk-the-new-twitter/

2. The A-team. [Online], Retrieved 8^th February 2010. URL: http://www.plurk.com/plurkteam

3. 'Plurk'? An etymological deconstruction of the word you love to hate. [Online], Retrieved 8^th February 2010. URL: http://blog.plurk.com/2008/06/02/why-plurk-an-etymological-deconstruction-of-the-word-you-love-to-hate/