http://plurkular.com Popular Plurk News, Blogs, Plinks, Apps, Plurkers and More Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:06:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Looking at my Plurk profile today I noticed a new badge down below my karma number. The little pink icon has an old-school radio microphone on it and when you hover over it to take a closer look, it says "Creator of a Plurk community site". Plurkular has been listed in ... http://plurkular.com/2008/08/07/plurkular-awarded-community-creator-badge/ There are plenty of URL-shortening services out there these days and it seems with each new day another one spawns. TinyURL was one of the first (and probably the largest) and then came the others. Some have even died over time as competitors came out with better products. Back when I ... http://plurkular.com/2008/07/30/plurl-shortens-urls-and-posts-to-plurk/ Today should have been another normal day in the Plurkosphere. Plurkers would go about their lives as they always do, Plurking in and out of the timeline until 4pm CST, when the PlurkCAST goes live on TalkShoe. But today something was different. I hadn't heard anything on Plurk about the PlurkCAST ... http://plurkular.com/2008/07/23/the-day-that-kdfrawg-saved-plurkcast/ When I first heard about Amix's announcement that Plurk was allowing custom CSS on Plurk profiles, I was excited immediately. This means I can create graphics and build custom color schemes to display my profile how I want (something the Twitter folk have been experimenting with a lot lately). As the ... http://plurkular.com/2008/07/22/plurk-allows-custom-css-for-profiles/ In the event that you've hit a missing page or are trying to post a message while Plurk is doing maintenance behind the scenes, chances are you've seen the A-Team screen. It's got the lovable crew from the hit 80s TV show and includes a short message to tide users ... http://plurkular.com/2008/07/20/plurk-shows-its-fail-screen-but-its-no-fail-whale/ As ThoughtWrong blogged and Plurked earlier, Plurk has released some updated features for the mobile version of Plurk. We still don't have much more than a bare bones app, but the new features DO add some great functionality. In the original version of mobile Plurk, you could only view the timeline ... http://plurkular.com/2008/07/18/updates-out-for-plurk-mobile/ During today's PlurkCAST we were all honored to have Alvin, the lead graphic interface designer for Plurk, call in to the show and talk with us. We've seen several instances where the A-Team has interacted on blog posts from Plurkular and Plurkiverse, but this was the first time anyone had called ... http://plurkular.com/2008/07/16/alvin-of-the-a-team-calls-in-to-plurkcast/ Plurkable has released today's show agenda for PlurkCAST, a 'weekly show highlighting discussion and news for Plurk.' Agenda Plurk Cake Plurker Beta Plurk Homepage Design Plurk Promotion - Good Promotion Techniques vs. Truly Obnoxious via aaronL PlurkPix.com Plurk Junkies on Ning and Facebook Episode Details July 16, PlurkCAST Episode Three @ 4:00 PM US Central Time Visit the official TalkSHOE ... http://plurkular.com/2008/07/16/plurkcast-episode-four-today/ Since everybody hates Mondays, Plurkular is here to save your day with some Plinks to fun and interesting content.badseedjenn baked a Plurk cake.DarinRMcClure is Plurking in his sleep to save Karma.Tamar is still crashing Firefox.Everyone is talking about tonight's Security & Microblogging Plurkshop.BarbaraKB is learning how people found out about ... http://plurkular.com/2008/07/14/monday-fun-plinks/ For most Plurkers, they will never see the Plurk home page after first signing up and logging in. I know for me, the only time I see it is when I log out as Mike Templeton and log in as Plurkular. The people who do see the home page are new ... http://plurkular.com/2008/07/11/plurk-releases-a-redesigned-home-page/