What the Plurk?
Since Yxes wrote a post about Plurk…I will too.
Plurk is a Twitter-like webapp that in my opinion is brilliant. Why do I like Plurk so much that I have mentioned it on Podmafia two times and blogging about it now? It’s because Plurk is simply better than Twitter.
To me Twitter is a chaotic mess that you can’t really catchup on without going through pages and pages of tweets and adding people more and more to see what was replied to and by who. Not to mention that it is intertwined with the Fail Whale.
Plurk makes it easier for me to catchup on what’s been happening with people and also to read the threads of conversations. It also seems to be a good way of getting traffic fast. Case and Point, Yesterday I was flying around Second Life when I got an IM asking if I wanted to try out the PlurkHUD. Since I am a sucker for BETA I tried it out and gave my location away with the tool. Then GoSpeed turned up and GoSpeed told people where she was. After a while a whole crowd of people came and was just having fun and while Plurk is currently small in size of community it is seemingly quicker to get traffic.
Am I a plurk fanboy? Yes. Do I think people should leave Twitter. Yes. Will it happen. I don’t know.
But if you want to add me…well add me!
…I wouldn’t mind Creative Commons either
I was checking out the feeds on Google Reader today when I noticed that the popular blog, Not Possible in RL, asked this of Linden Lab.
The Not Possible in Real Life group hereby requests that Linden Lab add a Creative Commons tab in the object editor, as well as a Creative Commons option in the right click pie menu, so that everyone can see, with a simple right mouse click, what the rights are on an object.
I personally second this motions because I am a supporter of Creative Commons. Even though I don’t make it painfully clear on my podcasts I pretty much grant people to use and mashup anything inside of it because it is a good thing.
So, will the guys in charge pay attention and accept Creative Commons into Second Life?
Finally Declared Dead…to iTunes
A long time ago in the summer of 2006 I tried to start a weekly podcast called "The Weekly Warf Show" but it was kinda…really…boring. So it went into my archive of Podfade.
It was of course submitted to iTunes, but I deleted the show and its feed last year. However iTunes has only just caught up with this revelation
Dear Podcast Owner
The podcast located at the URL shown below has been blocked or removed from the iTunes directory as a result of technical problems with the feed.
Name: The Weekly Warf Show
Feed URL: http://www.podshow.com/feeds/warf.xml
I wonder how many dead podcast feeds still lie on the surface of the iTunes store…
Mobile Second Life
So, a while ago a company called Vollee announced that they were working on a mobile version of Second Life that works over 3G. Now I would try it out but my phone (the Skypephone on the ‘3′ network) is likely not up to the job for it.
But I hear that they are working on a version for the iPhone. Now, my assumption is that if it will work for the iPhone…then it will work for the iPod touch. I would pay for that app for sure because I would love to just log onto Second Life on my iPod.
We will most likely talk about it for the 50th episode of Podmafia.
How do you solve a problem like Podmafia 50?
Hey Guys
I am currently in the process of uploading Podmafia Podcast Episode 49 and I have just started to think…
WHAT THE HELL ARE WE ACTUALLY GONNA DO FOR EPISODE 50?
So… I decided to throw something up on the blog and see if anything comes of it…
Here are a couple of ideas for shows we could do…
- Top 5 Moments of Podmafia 1-50
- A show where we reminisce on the past
- Same old show
I am quite drawn to the whole Top 5 moments…but what exactly are the top 5 moments of the podcast.
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Plurk
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