Geek Building The Bridge Part 2

Onion and Plurk

Originally uploaded by Framed Geek

Plurk is cool, plurking is fun. Timeline is wild idea, but it’s kinda betraying the web 2.0 rule of thumb of being simple and useful. To many wasted space.

What about the game. Yes, this is a well known strategy. To attach user to your service, give them a game to play. Human want to stand out, they want recognition. Twitter triggerred the following and followers game. Plurk has the similar thing, with an addition of karma. Karma is user score which will open hidden features. A gamer will immmediately notice this strategy.

However, a gamer may be dissapointed that the hidden feature is not cool enough. Some of those hidden features are smileys/emoticons. It’s basically what we can use daily in our IM but Plurk make this smileys exclusive.

That’s what motivated me to ceate the userscript. Onion emoticons is well known and is very famous. It’s cute, adorable, and irresistable. We can easily put the direct link of onion emo url in plurk to use it as Plurk facilitates image live preview. So, there you go. I created a userscript to insert the onion emo panel to help plukr insert onion emo into thir timeline. To use it, we can click on the particular emo, or drag it down into our textbox.

To install it, make sure you already have greasemonkey addon. Then install the userscript here. Thanks to rendy for hosting the Onions. Thanks to Ethan for creating the Onions.