No, they're not K-I-S-S-I-N-G. They're revolutionizing the way Web-savvy people like me look at social networking and, specifically, microblogging.



Aside from the obvious Facebook, I've been wired to my notebook for quite some time now partly due to the two titular sites. And for good reasons.

I first registered for Plurk (Your life, on the line.) three months ago and has since created a total of three accounts, jumping from one to the newer until finally settling on my account here. It's by far the most addictive thing I've clicked my mouse on in the intertubes. It works much like the now world-famous Twitter, but I prefer Plurk for its awesome river-like timeline, neat karma implementation and compendium of fun emoticons. Another cool thing is the ability to automagically post your plurks (as your status updates are called in Plurkdom) to your accounts in Facebook, Friendster, Multiply and even Twitter.

A fairly new player in the social networking field, Plinky (You have lots to share. We can help.) claims to make creating "inspired content" easier by putting up a new prompt each day, which users post answers to. An example of a prompt is the one which asked, "Frankly, Rosebud, you can't handle the truth! Have a favorite line from a movie?" That prompt "inspired" my previous post. I was able to post my answer to this blog not by copy-and-paste, but by one of Plinky's features that lets adding rich media to other networks, including Blogger, Facebook and Twitter, easy as pie. You can view my newly installed Plinky profile here.