One good reason why Plurk is the new Twitter

Written on June 6, 2008 – 6:14 pm
Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Fleck

Same old same old…

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About the author: Patrick de Laive is co-founder of Fleck and initiator of The Next Web Conference, Bowlr and OpenCoffee Amsterdam. Check his LinkedIn profile for more information.

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6 comments to “One good reason why Plurk is the new Twitter”

By Ivailo on Jun 6, 2008

ouch!

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Jun 6, 2008

He he he good one. Dugg it…

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By Jesse on Jun 7, 2008

I hate that my first reaction to this was to wonder if they had the rights to use that photo.

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By Patrick on Jun 7, 2008

@jesse I bet a 1000 dollars that they don’t have the rights for that picture. That is something a startup is not worrying about and… in the end, does it matter?
The worst case is that mr T brings a visit to the plurk office and says: You fools! :)

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Jun 7, 2008

Getting sued over that picture would be great PR…

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By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on Jun 7, 2008

Soocial is using David Hasselhof as their PR guy, without permission: http://www.soocial.com/intro

That’s a whole different league ;-)

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