Ever wondered if Twitter was the best or if it was Plurk? Well I did and I’m sure a lot of you did too. So here’s the ultimate showdown for Twitter and Plurk! Any ideas on who’s going to be the winner? Lets find out.

The looks

Looks are important. It works as a magnet. Well Twitter and Plurk both have a nice design. But, I like the Plurk layout over Twitter. I like the whole timeline idea. Its very unique, makes it easier to find your friend’s plurk and of course, the plurks show up in a chronological order (left: newest & right: oldest). While Twitter’s layout is a bit messy. I’m talking about the place where you see all your friend’s tweets.

Profile Customization

Plurk lets you customize your profile using CSS (but you need to wait until you get 25 Karma) and Plurk also comes with themes that you can choose from (noob-friendly!). Twitter doesn’t have that and you just get to choose what colour you want where (ex: background, sidebar, etc). And of course, both of them lets you upload your own picture for the profile.

So, yeah Plurk is both good for starters and experienced users (who knows CSS). You can really customize your Plurk profile while Twitter only lets you choose colours and a background picture (not so good).

How easy is it to make friends?

It’s really, really easy to make friends on Plurk. There’s a page with random users and you can just add them (if you find them interesting). It doesn’t take a lot of time and effort. Getting friends on Twitter is a bit hard. I got 57 friends on Plurk and 8 on Twitter. That explains a lot, huh?

How many friends reply/comment?

I just started using both Plurk and Twitter a few days ago. So, I don’t have a lot of loyal friends. But, I do get a few comments on my plurks while I got only one reply on Twitter.

Privacy options

Yeah this one’s for you privacy freaks. I don’t really care who sees my plurks or tweets (since they’re not personal). Okay there is a privacy option on Twitter that lets you choose to allow the people you follow see your tweets, only. Plurk has a bit more privacy options. You can setup who can view your plurks and who can search for you on Plurk.

Private Messages

Private messages are the messages you want to send to one specific friend. On Twitter you can send private tweets only to your mutual friends. On Plurk its looking a lot better. You can choose to send plurks only to your friends or a few specific friends. Great, huh? Plurk wins this round.

Incoming traffic

Yeah this one’s for the people looking for some traffic from micro-blogging. Well like I said I just started using them few days ago and I pretty much stopped using Twitter. I did get a bit more traffic from Plurk then Twitter. But, when I compared how many friends I have on Twitter and Plurk to the number of visitors coming from them, I saw that Twitter was more efficient.

Random features/things

• You can disable comments on Plurk.
• You write in 3rd person on Plurk most of the time (ex: th13rteen [thinks] if blogging about twitter and plurk will be good?). Awkward!
• You can tweet from your cellphone on Twitter.

So which one is the best?

Twitter: If you already have friends using it, if you have a nice community following you everywhere or if you’re successful on the web like Darren Rowse or Michael Arrington. And if you’re looking for some traffic!

Plurk: If want to micro-blog for fun, want to make a few buddies, be a bit more personal and build a profile.

Right now I’m using Plurk. I kinda stopped using Twitter, but I’ll put a bit more effort into it. So, I’ll be using them both with Ping.fm. I need to post a bit more links on Twitter than Plurk (that’s what everyone seems to be doing on Twitter).

So, go ahead and join Twitter and Plurk. And don’t forget to add me: Twitter & Plurk.

To the readers

So what do you think? Which one do YOU like better? Tell us about it. And hey, don’t forget to subscribe via RSS or email for more like this!

Man my back hurts as hell. I got jumped by ninjas. Nah I’m just joking. I don’t know why it hurts. Well lets go on a blogging rampage now. Okay so there’s been a big privacy issue. Google is handing over all its YouTube user datas over to Viacom. The user data initially contained IP addresses, usernames and the videos viewed. Now both sides (Google & Viacom) have agreed to anonymize the personally identifiable data.

Well the question is should we use continue to use YouTube. We don’t know what’s coming up next. And why the fuck was Google keeping all these information? Fucking fags. Is there anything called privacy? OMFG! 12 terabytes of user data.

The choice is yours. I personally would now like to stay away from YouTube. And YouTube isn’t even that great. The video quality is “okay”. Like its pretty good but on full screen it sucks ass. So I’m gonna list 5 Great YouTube alternatives (in random order) and you could check them out if you care about your privacy.

1. MEGAVIDEO

This site is like trying to compete with YouTube so bad that they allow you to convert YouTube videos to MEGAVIDEO in a snap. Someone’s desperate, huh? But that’s good for you since you can easily transfer your videos over to them. Video quality isn’t that bad too. I would say that its a bit better than YouTube and the fullscreen has fairly good quality too (unlike YouTube).

2. Veoh

Oh I just love the video quality. Man this video sharing site is like Stage6. But even better because the videos load way faster. Good quality + Fast loading = AWESOME! But there is a problem. Veoh blocked off over 160 countries. So that means Veoh is only good if you don’t care about going globally.

3. Vimeo

This is the site with 100% HD video quality. Check it out. And the site just looks amazing. YouTube looks a bit ugly (to be honest) or at least compared to Vimeo. Hmm I don’t have anything else on this site. Okay I’ll just move on to the next one.

4. Dailymotion

Dailymotion used to be pretty popular but I don’t know why it died. It had the best video quality back then (when video sharing sites were just getting popular) and it still has. Oh the video quality has actually improved a bit more. Nice!

5. Metacafe

Great quality once again. Hmm you know what I noticed? Most video sharing sites have fairly good quality to really good quality video streaming. Well except for YouTube though. Its still got its crappy ass “okay” quality. Metacafe is also known for its hilarious videos.

UPDATE: Few other sites

These are other great video sharing sites that I forgot to mention. Thanks to the readers for telling me about them. I’ll just quickly list them down.

• Break.com – Best for funny videos.
• Viddler.com – Home to some video bloggers.
• blip.tv – No limit on the video size and also shares revenue.

And that’s my list. New video sharing sites are popping up every day and there’s a lot of competition going on. Which one you would choose depends on you (of course). I’m not too sure myself either. I think I would probably choose Vimeo for its awesome quality.

If you know about a great video sharing site then please do tell us about it by dropping a comment. Oh and I forgot to mention that Viacom wanted to sue the users who uploaded and watched copyrighted material personally. Crazy shit, huh?

Okay what the fuck is going on? Stage6, the best high quality video sharing closed its doors and now the next best Veoh is blocking pretty much the whole world. I’m not even joking. People from over 165 countries have reported that they’ve been blocked.

Veoh is currently the only video sharing site with good quality and fast streaming. It improved a lot after Stage6 closed down. Well I’ll stop talking about how much they improved.

Now why the fuck did they block all these countries? They’re like turning away millions of potential users. People at the Veoh forums and the staff are saying that Veoh is trying to “maintain markets”. Huh, wtf? Doesn’t make sense.

Well right now people are just going crazy. And a lot of people are offended. They’re saying its all discrimination and everything. Well its called the World Wide Web. Why are they blocking then?

Right now I don’t have a lot of info. I’ll be going through their forums and I’ll try to talk with an official. Oh and here’s the list of the blocked countries. I wouldn’t be surprised if this list grew bigger.

List of Blocked Countries

1.Afghanistan
2.Albania
3.Algeria
4.Andorra
5.Angola
6.Antigua and Barbuda
7.Argentina
8.Armenia
9.Azerbaijan
10.Bahamas
11.Bahrain
12.Bangladesh
13.Barbados
14.Belarus
15.Belize
16.Benin
17.Bhutan
18.Bolivia
19.Bosnia and Herzegovina
20.Botswana
21.Brazil
22.Brunei
23.Bulgaria
24.Burkina Faso
25.Burundi
26.Cambodia
27.Cameroon
28.Cape Verde
29.Central African Republic
30.Chad
31.Chile
32.Colombia
33.Comoros
34.Congo
35.Costa Rica
36.Côte d’Ivoire
37.Croatia
38.Cuba
39.Cyprus
40.Czech Republic
41.Djibouti
42.Dominica
43.Dominican Republic
44.East Timor (Timor Timur)
45.Ecuador
46.Egypt
47.El Salvador
48.Equatorial Guinea
49.Eritrea
50.Estonia
51.Ethiopia
52.Fiji
53.Gabon
54.Gambia, The
55.Georgia
56.Ghana
57.Grenada
58.Guatemala
59.Guinea
60.Guinea-Bissau
61.Guyana
62.Haiti
63.Honduras
64.Hungary
65.Iceland
66.India
67.Indonesia
68.Iran
69.Iraq
70.Jamaica
71.Jordan
72.Kazakhstan
73.Kenya
74.Kiribati
75.Korea, North
76.Kuwait
77.Kyrgyzstan
78.Laos
79.Latvia
80.Lebanon
81.Lesotho
82.Liberia
83.Libya
84.Liechtenstein
85.Lithuania
86.Luxembourg
87.Macedonia
88.Madagascar
89.Malawi
90.Malaysia
91.Maldives
92.Mali
93.Malta
94.Marshall Islands
95.Mauritania
96.Mauritius
97.Mexico
98.Micronesia
99.Moldova
100.Mongolia
101.Montenegro
102.Morocco
103.Mozambique
104.Myanmar (Burma)
105.Namibia
106.Nauru
107.Nepal
108.Nicaragua
109.Niger
110.Nigeria
111.Oman
112.Pakistan
113.Palau
114.Panama
115.Papua New Guinea
116.Paraguay
117.Peru
118.Qatar
119.Romania
120.Rwanda
121.Saint Kitts and Nevis
122.Saint Lucia
123.Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
124.Samoa
125.San Marino
126.Sao Tome and Principe
127.Saudi Arabia
128.Senegal
129.Serbia
130.Seychelles
131.Sierra Leone
132.Singapore
133.Slovakia
134.Slovenia
135.Solomon Islands
136.Somalia
137.Sri Lanka
138.Sudan
139.Suriname
140.Swaziland
141.Syria
142.Tajikistan
143.Tanzania
144.Thailand
145.Togo
146.Tonga
147.Trinidad and Tobago
148.Tunisia
149.Turkey
150.Turkmenistan
151.Tuvalu
152.Uganda
153.Ukraine
154.United Arab Emirates
155.Uruguay
156.Uzbekistan
157.Vanuatu
158.Vatican City
159.Venezuela
160.Vietnam
161.Western Sahara
162.Yemen
163.Zambia
164.Zimbabwe
165.South Africa

Stick around. I’ll update you guys for sure.

I have to say that DP (Digital Point) forums are pretty active and almost all the webmaster know about that forum. I’ve been using that forum for sometime now and I have a few things to tell you guys about it.

Well first of all, someone should nominate that site for the ugliest site of the century. Like c`mon its 2008. Time to get a new skin. I’m not being a hater. I’m just being honest and I’m sure that a lot of people will agree with me.

Okay here’s why I don’t like DP. Its basically because there’s newbies coming in and asking the same question that has been asked a few days ago and this just goes on and on. Everyone is like a “pro” or at least that’s their attitude.

I will agree that there are also a few nice people. But most of them aren’t really nice. They don’t really share anything new. Basically the same thing over and over again. Now it might be good if you are a complete beginner since you’ll learn the basics and a few advanced things. And after that there’s no learning. You’ll just be replying to newbies’ questions and stuff.

But, I’ll also have to say that it is a good place for selling your product or service. But the thing is its a really active forum and your thread gets buried within 30mins-2hours. Now that sucks. And forget about advertising. You wish man. Try doing that and you’ll get a few people hating on you.

Oh and the forum structure is just superb. Nice way to confuse people. I gotta say that I was f**king confused when I first joined that forum and I made a thread in the wrong category (and I got an infraction).

This is just me telling you guys my opinion. Just so you guys don’t waste your time.

OMFG people! Why is everyone making a warez forum? I just don’t get it. Why? Do you not get it that warez forums are lame. There is too much competition. There’s bigger fishes (with lawyers) than you.

I’ll keep it simple. They suck because its just zombies copy/pasting links and information all day. That’s just it. There is no real discussions there. Well if you consider people reporting dead links and saying thanks a discussion then that’s different.

Plus its 2008 people. There are millions of tiny and big warez forums. You’re not the first or even the second one to make it. Too much competition.

And its not nice to give away things that people spent money and time making. I don’t know why but all the new forums have a warez section or its completely about warez. Weird. I don’t think people think about choosing a better niche.

If you know anyone or if you, yourself is planning to make a warez forum then do the rest of the world a favour and don’t make one! Please think of something better.

Warez isn’t cool. Its lame!