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Where’s the Competition for Twitter?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 14, 2009
There’s an interesting article on Slate.com about the dangers of having one company – Twitter – dominate the microblogging world. Citing last week’s hacker attack that crippled Twitter, Farhad Manjoo argues that Twitter is far too centralized. This not only makes it vulnerable to attacks and outages but puts an increasingly critical communications medium at [...]
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Plurk Gets an Overhaul

By Mark Evans | Published: February 2, 2009
When Plurk was launched several months ago, it attracted a lot of attention and a healthy amount of new users. A big part of Plurk’s appeal is/was the user interface that displays posts within a timeline, and responses under each post. After a promising start, however, Plurk seemed to fade into the microblogging background. Of [...]
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