not so sure. each app is like layers of trace in a design studio, examinations of the same/similar concept in different form.

some differences are slight, some significant, but each iteration is a new study. users will self select based on app attributes & friends.

Yes, but do you think that some users will get lost in the process?

believes they will probably stay in tact, but users will be drawn to what works best for them, while being confused by all the others.

some apps will survive, some will die, and there will be some surprises along the way.

users (including biz) find what works for them. we play where the people we want to play w/ are. & also realize we can't play w/ everyone.

we're all different of course. I'm not sure that Plurk is particularly efficient

I like it. O:

plurk; it's fun. I just don't find it very efficient to use.

more or less aligned w/ Eyebee

that this type of discussion can be had meaningfully on Plurk, but the filtration feels more cumbersome than w/ other apps

yet to experience any filtration?

uses twitter a lot, and easily with cellphone too, and (when it's working) on the PC with IM.

strong love and loyalty to Twitter despite significant frustration w/ its downtimes & currently disfunctional track feature

I like the way, with Twitter, how I can seemlessly switch from desktop (like now), to SMS when I go out later.

everything is cyclical.

dumb terminals to personal computers to thin clients to ASPs to...

things come together. things break apart.

new highly focused and efficient things are born. they are updated, modified, given flexibility. eventually they become abstracts

something else comes along to make sense of the abstract. it is highly focused and efficient...

people are contrasting plurk and twitter, but how many people are already looking for - and making - tools to glue them together?

everything that has changed will change again.

uses ping.fm

Plurk far more than Twitter, despite Twitter's higher amount of users, as Plurk is obviously the more interactive.

notices that plurk is fun, and more interactive, but it is by far the larger consumer of time. I like BrightKite veyr much too

he likes the offline functionality of Twitter. I am not near a computer all the time and travel a lot .

the graphical interface of Plurk. Maybe I need a new 3G phone to surf Plurk while mobile.

he could plurk via sms.

if anyone has a ping.fm invite. [email protected]

beta code for Ping.fm: tastyping

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