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Hello,
I have an idea which might lead to two changes.
First is to have the year of DoB not a required field. Sometimes people might just want to give their birthday instead of their age. Even a pull-down menu for plurkers to select which sign they are is quite well.

Second, how about a special badge that tells the "sign" of that plurker. Plurk is for social and communications right? Astrology is definitely a great and inspiring topic which leads to tons of plurks and responses. It's also a great starting point for making new friends.
Thank you.

A few people have responded that they would like to be able to mark certain plurks so that they can come back to they later. Sometimes someone will have a link or something that you want to remember. This is a great idea!

How 'bout along this line we have a tab that shows all of the plurks you've responded to. There's already a tab with My Plurks which are those you initiate. How 'bout one for Plurks you've responded to? We could call it "I Plurked."

I for one would love this option because then I wouldn't have to try and bookmark links or remember videos or songs or what have you that I see while I'm browsing the timeline. Instead, I just respond something like, "That a great idea" or "thank you" and later I can find it in my own tab.

Is there any way times & dates of plurks can be made more obvious? I dont' like to see ancient plurks and accidently answer them before I realize how old they are. It's frustrating. The lines and times/dates at the bottom are fairly vague and it would be nice if those things could be on each plurk itself. Is that a possibility?

It would be nice to be able to search for other plurkers outside of your direct email/contacts import.

Title says it all, really. I'd love to be able to extend Plurk by writing applications that touch it, but I can't see a way to do that now. Can we expect an API so that we can develop apps for Plurk?

Something that would be helpful is if there were a feature/button similar to "Back to Start" for the timeline that was "Back to oldest" when viewing new plurks/responses. Having to try and scroll back in time when you wake up and have 250+ responses or new plurks is really time consuming and annoying.

1) it would be nice to see "day at a glance" instead of having to page back, especially since you have the "calendar" icon at the bottom of the time line section of the page

2) it would also be nice to not have to keep clicking on the "page back" icon to go backwards. - Maybe going out on a limb, but a "click and hold" button to go back by page...

3) "drag" feature is an interesting idea, but you can still only drag the page by what you see.

4) in addition to "go back to the present"; would also be nice to be able to go back to the beginning (of your plurstream)

There are a lot of new "location-aware" social networks popping up to take advantage of new phones and computers with GPS. I want to be on as few social networks as possible but I love GPS features. I'd prefer to just use plurk with a GPS instead of using one of the new social networks like brightkite or loopt.

Is it possible, if you make an iPhone app, to have an option on plurks to include the location (even if just the city) and a link to google maps or another mapping service? Maybe an option to include a little note at the end like "jery loves mai tais [in honolulu]" with a link to google maps on honolulu.

And, is an iPhone app in development anyway? It's easy to update on safari but it would be nice to have something that takes advantage of the iPhone

Thanks!!

Can we have somewhere (perhaps just syntax in the user css) to define a list of images to include in the preload routines so our customizations are just as zippy as the real thing?

This page ( http://www.plurk.com/plurkteam ) has the names of the "plurkers" on it, however, no links to their plurkstream or anything else about them aside from their job title. it would be nice to be able to see what their plurking about...

Sometimes when I am viewing just my plurks, I need to go look at someone else's page. It would be nice if Plurk recognized that I wasn't looking at my page and automatically changed the filter back to all the plurks.

(Actually, it might be a bug - I have noticed that getting into this situation always seems to cause an IE browser hang.)

I'd love to be able to mark a plurk as "permanently read", so that I don't receive notifications of new comments on it.