Plurk can be styled with CSS. This basically means that any element on a Plurk profile can be customized. Colors can be changed, background can be altered etc.
As educators speed up in the Plurk adoption curve, conversations start to unfold.
Drawback: Plurk still does not provide a favourite button to save and share fast.
Solution:
Tag +RSS to wiki
Paste large amounts of text and a link is generated for you to share in plurk. The text comes up in Plurk as a pop up box. Nice! Shared by @gingerTPLC.
When I first started using Plurk, I figured it was another Twitter clone. Like Twitter, you can only use 140 characters each time, like Twitter, you can get messages over your cell phone, like Twitter you can receive messages over IM…and kind of like Twitter, their IM program is down.