Lets face it, we all like meeting new people. Otherwise, why would we be using a community driven service such as Plurk? Sometimes these meetings are planned, but sometimes they can come from the most unexpected places.

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We as plurkers are a unique pleople! We all have different personalities and views. We all share our opinions and feelings with the world, and that’s what makes Plurk….well Plurk! So knowing this it makes since that our profile page should be unique as well. An essence of style that is each pleep in the plurkiverse. Unfortunately not many of us know or understand the fundamentals behind CSS so we use the same old default background for our pages. I feel there should be an easier way for the non-technical pleeps to accomplish this. Until that day comes, however, we must work with what we have, and what we have is a great site that explains exactly how to code certian parts of your profile page with CSS. I give you AZJazzyJ’s website Plurkskins.com.

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Plurk, A Social Journal for your life…
This is the phrase we see whenever we visit the front page of Plurk. This phrase has a lot of meaning for a lot of people hidden within its words. Let us explore the world of social journaling a bit further and immerse ourselves in everything that encompasses Plurk.

Lets take the most relevant definitions into consideration:

So-cial \ˈsō-shəl\ (adjective)
tending to form cooperative and interdependent relationships with others of one’s kind

Jour-nal \ˈjər-n^əl\ (noun)
an account of day-to-day events

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Cliques! While the name might not be appealing to most, the idea is. Being able to talk to a select few of your friends privately about a topic is a great way to increase communication with your pleeps while maintaining a public image with the rest of the Plurk world. This is one feature that sites like Twitter cannot even fathom implementing because of database issues and other restrictions on the service. The Clique feature is, however, flawed in one major way. I have noticed more and more people complaining about this and I thought it was time to write a post on this topic.
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Day by day I am absolutely astonished by the wealth of information shared by users of the community we call Plurk. So much valuable information is embedded in every one of the conversations I have seen. What is the reason for this post you may ask. Well, as some of you may know I recently went up for an interview for a new job. I decided that this time I wanted to be prepared and absolutely wow the interviewers so I called upon my Pleeps for help. Now I bring you this post to share that wealth of information. If you are going up for a job or plan on doing so soon, then this content is for you!

Now some of these tips contained here may be practical and things you already know, but please keep your attention focused as there are tips here that will blow your interviewers mind (trust me, I experienced it)
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Upon awaking this morning, I did what I do every other morning and jumped on Plurk (go figure)! This morning was different however because I seen a comment that caught my eye. I went to the link in the comment, and read the post about Trojan attacks on Twitter. After reading this and thinking about it for a while I remember something that was said a while back in a Plurkshop I hosted.

martinbogo says: I have a way of embedding a flash mp3 player. He goes on to state that it is a parsing bug on the part of the A-Team. (Note: he also states that he would not do it due to music on pages being annoying anyways)

Now, not knowing much about programming I can neither confirm or deny this fact, however if he can use an <embed> tag in a Plurk profile then this has me wondering if it is easier than we think to implement a virus onto a Plurk profile page. Can someone in fact use this parsing bug to their advantage? Can it really be that easy to hurt what all of us Plurkers work so hard to maintain on a day to day basis? Well, in the twitter article it seemed that it was just a misleading link to download a new version of Adobe Flash which is in fact a Trojan. Things like this are happening everyday in our online world. I believe that we need to step up and fight for our network. Again, I do not know if it is a possibility to implement a virus with this parsing bug out there, but I most definitely do not want to find out. So I felt I needed to bring this to the attention of the Plurk community and see what all the Pleeps think of this. If you have any information on viruses or bugs on Plurk, or if you can tell us if this is a possible scenario, then please leave a comment below. Its high time that we take action Before someone takes it on us!
I am thoughtwrong, and you’ve just been Pleeped!

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Plurk Tips -n- Tricks teaches you how to do cool stuff on Plurk. In today’s video lesson we teach you the new way to link and reply to user names in the Plurk response interface. This new feature was added on August 3rd, 2008.

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This Plurkshop was hosted on Saturday by yours truly, Charles Weber (thoughtwrong) of MyPleeps.com, on the topic, new implementation of custom CSS profile design . Remember that this is just a recap. For the full discussion, please visit the Plurkshop #10 thread.

This Plurkshop was based around a very controversial topic in the past week. The implementation of custom CSS design on your profile has had some astonishing comments that seemed to go through both good and bad views, and we thought that the time was upon us discuss this.
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At approximately 4:20am cst on Friday June July, 18th 2008, throughout the Plurkiverse, time stood still, as Plurk went down for an one hour maintenance. Little did everyone know when the hour was up, Plurk would not be! We the Pleeps only received a message that downtime was imminent, and taking longer than expected, yet would be back soon. This was an understatement of what was to come. Plurk was actually down a grueling thirteen hours, and at approximately 2:05pm cst the lights came back on. After plurking and responding to a couple of posts, I realized everything would be dim in the world of Plurk for hours to come.

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Well it sure has been an exciting night. As you all may know Alvin (UI Lead) from the A-Team attended the Plurkcast this afternoon and they talked about apps, stats, and whats upcoming for plurk (Read more on this story here). Following all of this excitement, new features started rolling out one after the other.Here is a rundown of what we recieved from Plurk today.

New Features? Really?
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