Plurk is a mircoblogging and social networking platform that has started to gain some traction in the edublogging community. I find Plurk to be quite similar to FriendFeed because you can post content to your Plurk stream from a wide variety of other services that you use. To be fair though, I don’t use my Plurk account often enough to give a complete comparison of Plurk to FriendFeed.

Plurk has recently made some improvements. The size of your Plurk timeline can now be adjusted to fit your screen best. The adjustability should make it easier to view your Plurk stream on a small screen like those found on netbooks. Another significant improvement is the option to search for music on YouTube through Plurk. Once you’ve selected music it will appear in your timeline and others can listen to it using the Plurk audio player.

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