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Reshare Your Favorites on Google Buzz

Chris Pirillo — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:57:44 +0000

Our brains are already programmed to hit that Retweet button on Twitter. Now, Google is making it simple for us to do the same thing from within Buzz. The new Reshare button will be rolling out to all users during the next several days. It works much the same as the RT feature does, so users will feel comfortable using it immediately. There’s nothing to configure or install. Just click Reshare any time you come across a post you want your followers to see as well.

Choose whether you want to share a post with all of your followers or just with those you select. This feature only works with public posts, and will not work for those that are private. You’ll find the new button down between “Like” and “Email” at the bottom of your Buzz items. Click to share it out and start new conversations within your group. Add your own comments to the item if you wish. Keep in mind, though, that you will not have the ability to edit the original Buzz item. It’s cool to note that you are no longer restricted to 140 characters, so you don’t need to hack away at a reshared item in order to make it “fit.”

One of the cooler portions of the Reshare feature is the way the items are handled after you click that button. Mashable describes it as: “Once you reshare an item, it will be posted to your own timeline with attribution to the author and a link to the original post (this is the opposite of how the retweet function works on Twitter). Once an item as been reshared, it will update to highlight each of the Buzz users who have shared it publicly and outline the chain of reshares.”

This feature has been much in demand from users, and is already being met with much approval. If you’ve used it already, what are your thoughts? Are you happy with the way they set everything up?

Reshare Your Favorites on Google Buzz

What Does Your Life’s Timeline Look Like?

Chris Pirillo — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:25:30 +0000

What Does Your Life’s Timeline Look Like?

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Back in grade school, I remember having to make timelines. We had to rely on paper, and pencils to sketch things out. Inevitably, we’d mess things up, and then have to scrunch things together. Software has made it easier for us to create timelines. There’s a lot of data that is floating around out on the Web. If it’s collected the right way, these timelines could be created for you automatically. That’s the idea behind AllofMe.

Automatically create a Personal Timeline of your life from any digital assets you have, such as pictures, videos, blogs, documents, or any Internet page.

You can view sample timelines, or even watch a teaser. There are tons of different categories to look through. You know what I did. I entered my name, and was shocked to see how much of my information was pulled it. It began picking up parts of my life from 1999. There is a ton of content, starting in about 2004. Using AllofMe, it will be easier for me to keep track of when certain things happened in my life.

It does image searches, checks through things like YouTube and Twitter, and even looks at Windows Live. If you zoom way in, it’ll show you by day, month or even year what you’ve been up to. You can even filter your timeline to only include certain aspects.

Thanks to the creators, we have 250 Beta codes! The first 250 of you to sign up for AllofMe using this link will enjoy full privileges!

This is not only a lot of fun, it’s also something you can hold onto. You just never know when you might want or need to look back on your life, and the things you’ve done.

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What is Plurk?

Chris Pirillo — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:14:16 +0000

What is Plurk?

I asked my friends to explain to me what the hell Plurk was all about. Their answers were quite telling:

It's like Twitter for jr. high kids. – Nathaniel Payne

it's like twitter, w/ better attachment functionality, on a horizontal time-line thus easier to review, but not mobile friendly. – clarke

I agree, it's silly – Ryan

-100 karma for Nathaniel! :-) – Chris Harris

Its Twitter with the ability to have threaded conversations. The horizontal timeline is hard to get used to, but the mobile app is vertical. – Mike Templeton

Like everyone said it's like Twitter with an Ajax on crack interface that is not impressive and something that I can't see lasting beyond the initial buzz it got because of Twitter's instability. – Chris Rodgers

twitter for kids or painkiller for heavily depressed tweeple – Dobromir Hadzhiev

move moves the wrong way – Marc Canter

have you ever played defender? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D…) its twitter with a defender interface :) – Scott Cropper

-1000 karma for Chris Harris! (which will be rendered as a severe beating at the next dmtweetup) ;-) – Nathaniel Payne

@clarke, http://www.plurk.com/m <- mobile version ;-) – AJ Batac

its like an unnecessarily complicated version of twitter that nobody really uses – so maybe it's more like pownce :) – Jennifer Van Grove via twhirl

it's a chat-room where you can post with ping.fm ;) – Dieter Schwarz

It is a more complicated Twitter – Jared Radosevich

It's a dog without a head. i.e. a website without usability – directeur

http://www.geekfridge.com/?p=1… – Starman

As long as Twitter remains unstable, Plurk is the most Twitter-like option out there that also happens to be new kid on the block. – Scott Kitchen

It's essentially Twitter, but the conversations stay self-contained and don't send out a lot of noise to the timeline. There are toys like karma, but most people ignore them. – Starman

Oh, yeah, and it works :D – Starman

http://banannie.com/blog/2008/… – Starman

@Nathaniel nooo, -1000 makes all my plurk smilies disappear. you bastard!! – Chris Harris

Twitter is to statements as Plurk is to conversations. Even more than twitter, Plurk requires adding friends and interacting with them. This interaction is the reason so many people are falling in love with it. If you want to know more, feel free to send me a plurk: http://www.plurk.com/user/Teeg – Teeg

tried to use it for a few weeks, but the big problem is that they simply don't have the user base. you end up talking to the same 2 people and after a while, everybody is bored and goes back to twitter (if it's up). – Mark Schulz

Pluk is really twitter with consolidated replies and tweets on a timeline instead of in a stream. – Greg Hollingsworth via twhirl

Right now I have over 300 friends on there, only 1 or 2 of them are teenagers, many are computer geeks of one kind of another, a lot are experts in their fields. In the 3 weeks or so that I've been on Plurk, I've already learned more and received more answers to my questions than I ever did on Twitter, even though I actually have more friends listed on Twitter. – Teeg

Plurk is like wurk. – OpenAllNight

Plurk is like Twitter but with participation and interesting conversation. To generalize all Plurk users as "high school kids" is very misleading. If you get on, conversate and make friends you'll see what the buzz is all about. – Patrick Britton

it's Twitter with conversation that you can actually follow. It's got good search functions and none of my Plurk friends are teenagers – Sharon Hurley Hall

It's like Twitter with more conversations, more community, more responsiveness from founders, and less egos and snarkiness. – Mack Collier

"its like an unnecessarily complicated version of twitter that nobody really uses – so maybe it's more like pownce :)" Has 155 friends on Plurk, been there maybe a week. Twitter, 127 followers and I've been there for several months. Not to mention Plurkers actually talk to you, Twitterers just blab on about their own self indulged lives. – Patrick Britton

Plurk is amazing. Many of the comments here are naive and misleading, not to mention ignorant. If you like community interaction Plurk is an awesome choice. – Konstantino

It's a faster, horizontal pownce with a rating system that's very stable. – Nexeus Fatale

No "fail whale." :D – Patrick Britton

It's more fun at times. I tend to get more responses. but it's only cause people are trying to build karma. timeline is an interesting interface that allows a little better view of when in time everything is happening. – Josh

Josh, they're helping you build karma when they respond. They build karma by getting responses on their posts. A neat idea that drives conversation levels up. :) – Teeg

Twitter on crack. or meth. or your mind enhancing chemical of choice. – jane

I agree with Konstantino "Many of the comments here are naive and misleading, not to mention ignorant" For one, my teenage years are long forgotten and my plurk friends are adults with adult conversations… I LOVE Twitter for the sharing of great business information & links but you cannot have nor follow a conversation there. On Plurk you can create or follow conversations from beginning to end if you want, & some conversations are long we discuss all sorts of topics personal and or business, politics.. – Linda Zimmer

silly chat room with emoticons & reaching for a level of *karma* gets ya better emoticons. that being said, there have been good discussions there :) – Barbara K. Baker

oh, and FriendFeed is still better. just not as… silly! – Barbara K. Baker

plurk confuses me, thus I keep playing along. sorry I can't explain it, but that which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. – Peggie Arvidson

Plurk is simply public, threaded chats displayed on a timeline. It's not like twitter except that it limits posts to 140 like twitter. Think IRC but more organized. Think IM but publicized. – nicerobot

I tried to like it – and maybe it’ll grow on me – but for the time being, it will remain a sideline in the grid that is my social graph.

What is Plurk?