Plurk, wagg.it, and pbwiki
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Walt Goshert on Jun 2, 2008 in Personal Productivity
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Here’s are a couple shiny, bright objects to distract you from your focused productivity.
Plurk
Yesterday, I’m working on figuring out Twitter. With all the talk about Twitter’s downtime, and on the heels of Robert Scoble’s interview with the Twitter founders, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, is Plurk the new Twitter?
This isn’t Billy Q. Poindexter’s blog, no, no. Instead, Plurk is an easy way to chronicle and share the things you do, the way you feel, and all the other things in between that make up your life, with the people close to you. It’s instant gratification, instant self-indulgence, instant celebrity, instantly YOU. Share your life stream, live your life….Plurk!
Plurk: Unique or Just Another Twitter Clone?, social media consultant and a top-ranked community member, Muhammad Saleem weighs in on Plurk.
Plurk me here… (NOTE:I’m not planning on lots of activity here… although ability to embed YouTube vids and pics in your Plurks is pretty cool)
Wagg.it
Thanks to Jack Humphrey for the mention of wagg.it at his Social Marketing Central.
This looks promising. A social networking, Digg-like site, where you can post stories, vote up, (wagged) or vote down (piss). I love that!
Not only people friendly, but marketing friendly too with categories such as Games, Hollywood, Home Improvement, Humor, Sports, Social Networking Community, Marketing Videos, Web 2.0 Social Networking, Marketing, and SEO/SEM EVENTS 2008.
pbwiki
Discovered this from a Guy Kawasaki Tweet mention.
PBwiki is perfect for businesses and teams looking for an easy, secure way to collaborate at work. Using PBwiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich. And PBwiki is trusted by global leaders like Facebook, DePaul University, and the FDA.
No IT work is required to get started, and we offer tools and processes to give your IT team confidence in our infrastructure and control over their users. Read more about how wiki collaboration can help your business.
Check out the pbwiki 2-minute Demo video
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5 Comment(s)
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Chris Yeh
(Check me out!) on Jun 3, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the mention! We owe you one.
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JuneM
(Check me out!) on Jun 4, 2008 | Reply
Good resource post Walt, so many social communication tools and communities out there forming. Will be interesting to see how it all pans out.I have seen others using the pbwiki effectively its a great tool too.
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brad
(Check me out!) on Jul 8, 2008 | Reply
wagg is crap they cant even make their own layout, their using the pligg.com default layout. if you want a good blog promotion site check out BlogVibrations.com - im a member and get heaps of promotions from them!!!
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Walt Goshert
(Check me out!) on Jul 8, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Brad,
I’ll check out BlogVibrations.
Not sure I’d call wagg crap. Layout issues and tech stuff aside, (hey, seems that Twitter has cornered the market on tech issues, yet it’s still going strong) wagg is more “marketing” friendly than Digg, Stumble and others.
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brad
(Check me out!) on Jul 27, 2008 | Reply
i do like their marketing, they know how to get the word out however, personaly, i wouldnt touch a site that dont have 2 minutes of their time to create a theme. even if they used a free theme, if you google it theirs heaps!
what about using this as an example, if their was 2 wordpress blogs with the same content, would you choose the one with a default theme or a nicer theme?