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Plurk traffic grows 9x in June

Friday, July 11th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

Compete reports that Plurk, a new micro-blogging site and competition for Twitter, saw a 929% increase in traffic in June, probably due to all the downtime Twitter users have experienced in the past month. I figured I should try out Plurk, but when I first went to the site, it was down. ...

Man twitters his layoff from yahoo.

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

An interesting CNN video about a Yahoo employee who was laid off, and twittered his account of the whole day. Click here to watch the video.

Embedding Social Media in this blog…

Friday, June 6th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

...is being more difficult than it should. Last night I added my Twitter "tweet" (feed) to the right side of this page. Integrates well, but the problem is the javascript code can only handle one user. (Ideally I'd add other people's tweets underneath, but currently that seems impossible.) It also seems like ...