Plurk

Plurk Milking This Microsoft Thing for All It’s Worth

John Paczkowski in News on December 17, 2009 at 6:58 am PT

As earnest as it might have been, Microsoft’s apology to Plurk, the microblogging service whose code and design it copied, has not eased the start-up’s outrage over the incident or its desire to squeeze all the PR it can out of it. Though Microsoft has taken responsibility for the offense–perpetrated by a third-party vendor with which it contracted–it has not offered accountability, says Plurk. And that makes the microblogging outfit inclined to pursue legal action, or threaten it, anyway.

Plurk Plundered! Microsoft Pulls Plug on Pilfered Property Posthaste [UPDATED]

John Paczkowski in Social on December 15, 2009 at 10:37 am PT

If Microsoft didn’t know what a Plurk was before, it knows now. The software giant has suspended MSN Juku, its Chinese microblog site, “indefinitely” after confirming that the vendor that developed the site did indeed, as Plurk charged, copy design and code from Plurk, a Twitter rival popular in Taiwan and Indonesia.