I’m amazed once again how fast new services can get attention in these Twittertimes. Just yesterday, as it appears, a new microblogging service called Plurk.com started to make waves among the German Twitterati, half of my “following”-list registering right away and starting to play. Judging from other blog posts, Plurk seems to have been around since January, more recently opening up from closed beta, or so.

Plurk has something of Twitter (140 character messages, followers, friends) and Friendfeed (direct comments to “plurks”) and even allows for image and video embedding. The timeline displayed in the browser moves from left to right with most recent entries on the left. Each plurk indicates if it has responses. You can keep your plurks private or create “cliques” to have closed group plurk-parties.

Whether this service will take off or not is not the big question to me, it may, it may not. But it’s definitely a proof that there are more ways to visualise social-messaging-timelines and a great example for the viral mechanisms of the social web. Take a few key Twitterers (high follower numbers) and give them a new toy to play with – others will follow. Quite simple.

UPDATE: Cool, I was faster with this post than Mashable. Which really means something (just kidding)

I’m amazed at the number of services and web2.0y things I’ve tried out in the past few weeks. New services just keep popping up like mushrooms it seems. No doubt, most of these will vanish again at some point or be bought to be integrated somewhere else. Here’s a list, without any specific order for you to check out, or not. Your choice.

1. Aka-aki, a mobile social network based in Berlin, could actually become something big I believe
2. Socialthing, an aggregator service, currently in closed beta (comment this if you want an invite, I have 2)
3. Friendfeed, the more popular aggregator service for anything social media
4. Bloglines, my favourite RSS reader. Still in Beta for V2.0, but works fine
5. Twitter, the most talked about, most hyped of the past few months, useful, fun, boring, waste of time, depending on how you set it up
6. Brands4Friends, a closed shopping community
7. Seesmic, a video chat site, not really tried it out yet
8. kyte.tv, fun to play with and stream pictures, audio, and even video live to your blog, from your mobile!
9. meinVZ, the StudiVZ for grown-ups. They launched mid-March, promised to port my StudiVZ account, but didn’t since. Useless.
10. Hobnox, a German video site, currently in restricted beta. They streamed the re:publica panels live.
11. Be completely offline for a week in Lisbon – Worked!