Just saw that Pownce will be closing up on December 15th. Half-twitter half-file sharing, the service had high hopes when it first started. Then it went nowhere fast.
I guess it was a good decision for me not to renew my “Pro” account when it expired earlier in the year.
According to the Pownce Blog, Pownce will be merged into into the Six Apart family in some form. We’ll see what happens in 2009… if anyone really cares.
Looks like the last week (or whenever) was “redesign week”. Both Twitter and FriendFeed made major changes to their sites. Not eactly sure when either of these happened, considering I haven’t really used these services that much in the past.
While the Twitter redesign is nice, it’s still very uninviting. However the FriendFeed update kicks ass. In fact, I’ve probably spent more time on Friendfeed this past week then I’ve spent since I first created my account. Major props to them!
View me on Twitter | FriendFeed | Plurk
I’ve been using Plurk for a while now, and have rather enjoyed it. This evening, I reached a major milestone on the service called “Nirvana”. One achieves this status when their karma rises above 81.00.
Karma is a highly debated subject among Plurk users right now. Some feel that it hurts the service, while others (me included) think that it helps promote interaction, discourages spamming, and ads some fun to it. I must say, compared to Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, and the number of other similar services, I’ve used Plurk far more often.
What does it take to obtain the highest level of karma? Not much really… in fact, I would have been at Nirvana a lot sooner had I not had a 2 week break a few months ago due to vacation and crappy (no) Comcast service. See my karma trend.
Right now, my stats on Plurk are:
As you can see, while I’ve been fairly active, I’ve not really been that active. This brings to question, is Nirvana to easy to obtain? Ask anyone who has it, and I’m sure they’ll say it’s to hard to maintain.
Sometime today a Plurk was updated and a “Responded Plurks” tab was added under the time line. Right now it looks like it only goes back to mid afternoon yesterday, which if I were to guess would be about the time they pushed the feature out to the server.
This is something a lot of us Plurkers have been waiting for. I’d expected to see a big increase in the number of plurks as people are now able to keep track of messages easier. Yet another thing that sets Plurk apart from the other services.
The Plurk team has released a new widget customizable widget that can be placed on your blog, personal website, or forehead. Ok, maybe not the last one.
The blog entry also points out that another widget will soon be released that will allow you to add your Plurks to MySpace, Facebook, and other social networks.