Microblog provider Plurk has won market share in Asia with the help of users around the world willing to translate it into dozens of languages outside of its main lingo, English. The company remains ...

A few weeks ago, I joined Plurk to mess around with the newest social media buzz. After playing around with it for a few weeks, I have really grown to enjoy many of its addictive features. The main ...

When my friend Stacy Thayer said to me this morning, "There are a ton of social networks out there but so few of them stick," I had to agree. Her valid observation tied directly to one service in ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. Now ...

Plurk, a micro-messaging service similar to Twitter, today added a nice new feature: Real-time conversation search. As you might expect, it allows you to search Plurk’s growing index of data to find ...

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The other evening I started to receive unsolicited (aka spam) requests to hook up with people on Plurk. Spam might be too strong a word since the requests were coming from people with whom I'm already ...

Microblogging startup Plurk may not have become hugely popular in these parts, where Twitter rules the lands, but it has been making strides in Asia. Recently, the fledgling company has gotten a ...

Plurk, a microblogging rival to Twitter, is winning over markets in Asia by offering service in local languages, something global leader Twitter has struggled to do even in European languages. Plurk’s ...

If you’re an early user of Twitter, or someone who enjoyed social networking when it began to go mainstream around 2008, then the chances are that you may remember Plurk. The Canadian startup offered ...

Another new micro-blogging platform called Plurk has stirred the social scene the last couple of days. Basically, they are doing exactly the same thing as Twitter, only they’re looking, uhm, cooler.

Microblog provider Plurk has won market share in Asia with the help of users around the world willing to translate it into dozens of languages outside of its main lingo, English. The company remains ...