SNS for Fashion Gurus.

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As you all know, January is the month for Fashion Galore, it is when all the most elite and rich clients and designers come together for the New York's Autumn-Winter 2010 Fashion Week.

Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang, Calvin Klein and most of the amazingly talented designers in the whole world are part of the most famous micro-blogging social networking site in the whole world. TWITTER! Imagine, 24/7 updates from designers, models, stage producers and fashion press whilst the fashion show is going on.

A big tweet screen having been installed by American Express in the entrance of the ready-to-wear shows take place. For example ; ["Just arrived at (designer Vera) Wang. White setup," write NARSissist] To many, this is such an exciting feature as not everyone gets to enter the fashion show. This itself could be considered Gold, being able to know what was going in a fashion show at the very moment it is happening.

With this step of communication, the fashion world is going to break through alot more communication boundaries and many other things linked to it. I supposed, we should give it a few months before it blows over in every manner of social networking sites.

Plurk.com vs Twitter.com

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They may be the TWO (2) most popular micro-blogging social networking site of the 21st century, but ONE of them certainly knocks the other out.

VERSUS

Both very interesting piece of work for updating status and post, yet there can only be ONE that stands out. Plurk, in my opinion clearly stands out at the range of components that are offered.

1. Timeline

There is a Timeline effect that was introduced by Plurk to look a lot more interactive and interesting, where as Twitter's Timeline is not as effective and captivating as Plurk's. On Plurk, it is a whole lot more attractive as it is placed in a horizontal manner such as the picture above compared to the vertical position that Twitter offers. It was a bold move but a very productive one, as many can see. One of the many successes of Plurk. Although both Plurk and Twitter users are opened to design their background with their own interest and creativity.

2. Chat Conversations

Despite the fact that Plurk is a micro blogging social networking site, on the status updates that a person puts up, his / her peers are allowed to give their response in a form of conversation. Twitter, however, isn't quite the 'in detailed' with the feedback from other followers of a person. It is a lot more confusing compared to Plurk's form of instant feedback.

3. One-Line Messages & Emoticons

This clearly is the 'IT' factor for both Plurk and Twitter, as well as doing justice to their popularity. Both sites have one-line messages that could not exceed more than 140 words, BUT Twitter fails to have emoticons as part of the update compared to Plurk, whom allows members to be very creative with their message update and emoticons *expressions*. Bravo, don't you think?

4. Karma

This feature basically wins Plurk the crown. The Karma feature are rewards that are given to members as they update regularly and as their popularity raises. The higher your Karma is, the more popular and socialize you are. Fascinating, don't you think? It is also shown that as the Karma levels grows, more exclusive emoticons would be available for the members to use as part of their message update. Twitter clearly hasn't reach a point where they reward their members for being consistent and popular. Although Twitter is a lot more talked about, compared to Plurk.

For me, the winner would be PLURK

So what are you, Team Twitter or Team Plurk ?

Regards,

Jillian.

1. Twitter versus Plurk: The UI Advantage. [Online], Retrieved 14th February 2010. URL:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_versus_plurk.php

2. 6 Reasons Why Plurk Beat Twitter. [Online] 15th February 2010. URL:http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-reasons-why-plurk-beats-twitter/

3. Why 'Plurking' is more FUN than 'Tweeting'? [Online] 13th February 2010. URL:http://www.techpluto.com/plurk-over-twitter/

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/