you might warm up to it, but the real key will be the API's if they come...

you're onto something there. At least IM works.

If you are referring to Plurk's IM, it is spotty now...

right, plurk and IM. can you reply to a plurk via IM, BTW?

you can...

I don't know how just yet, but ionstorm has been around for a little while. Good plurker...