A really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life, and follow the events of the people that matter to you, in deliciously digestible short messages called plurks.

What’s a plurk?
A plurk is a small message or link, less than 140 characters, that you can broadcast to the whole world, your buddies or just yourself over the web, through instant messaging, and through text messaging on your mobile phone.

How does Plurk work?
It’s easy. First, sign up. It takes 10 seconds. Then, just post new plurks which tell us what you’re doing, or how you feel, or what you’re thinking or anything else for that matter and it’ll appear on your timeline. You can tell us on the site, through instant messaging (stuff like MSN or AIM) or by text messaging us an update. Be sure to invite all your friends and see what they are up to throughout the day, it will make Plurk that much more fun for you.

Tags: Blog, Microblogging, Community, Microblogging

ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.

Installing ScribeFire
To install ScribeFire, you must be using the Mozilla Firefox Web browser (version 2.0 or greater), Flock (version 1.0 or greater), or the Mozilla SeaMonkey browser suite (version 1.1 or greater). If you do not have any of these browsers installed, you can install them for free by visiting their websites.

Installation instructions is here.

Tags: Blog, Microblogging, Microblogging, Social

Jaiku and Twitter are both cool micro-blogging solutions. Jaiku has few more bells and whistles then Twitter. Twitter focus on simple and a ‘get-to-it’ kinda attitude.

This intro video of the two will give you a better idea which is ideal for you. We Twitter here at the pit.

Tags: Blog, Microblogging, Microblogging

twhirl is a desktop client for the popular microblogging service Twitter. It allows you to post short 140-character updates about what you are doing, as well as following your twitter friends and read all their updates, replies anyone sends to you, and direct messages to your account. You can also answer to another user by replying or sending him/her a private direct message.

Key Facts

1. twhirl is based on the new Adobe AIR platform that allows web development techniques to be used to create desktop applications. It is powered by the Flash-based Flex 3 framework, also from Adobe.
2. twhirl stores your configuration at two locations in your user profile directory. The first is an XML file that holds information about your selected color scheme and all twitter accounts you set up, the second is an encrypted data store provided by AIR in which twhirl saves passwords it should remember.
3. twhirl supports handling multiple Twitter accounts. For every user account you set up, exactly one twitter window can be opened, and every twitter window has to be associated with exactly one account.

Tags: Twitter. Microblogging