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Emotions make social networks meaningful

by Andy DeSoto on June 9, 2008

A few minutes ago I sat down at my computer, opened my browser, loaded Plurk, and planned to write a short update about how I wasn’t feeling particularly cheery at that moment. But then I paused. “Wait a minute, Andy,” I thought, “is this the place to be getting personal? Is Plurk the vehicle to be getting detailed about why I haven’t had a great evening?” I shook my head, decided against it, and posted to Pownce instead.

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Twitter gets kicked while down

by Andy DeSoto on June 5, 2008

It seems as if the problems won’t stop. To add insult to Twitter’s recent injury by Plurk, it looks like another disaster has hit the site.

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Other social networks to try besides Facebook

by Andy DeSoto on May 29, 2008

My blog feed passes by a captive audience of my Facebook friends every time I publish a new post.  To many of us, Facebook is the first social network we became involved in and it’s the one we stay most active in, too.  However, it doesn’t necessarily need to be this way; there are plenty [...]

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