Plurkpix is a hassle free Web application that allowed users to upload a photo to their own Plurk and Twitter accounts. One special feature is that they did not require you to sign-up for an account at Plurkpix, you can use it straight away, but they set a maximum file size limit to 4MB for your picture file format, i.e. JPEG or PNG or GIF.

Once you uploaded your photo, you simply need to log on to your either Plurk or Twitter, and add in any message to it. What I don’t like is that Plurkpix is not actually post the actual picture or photo to the plurk or tweet you posted, it simply generate a link, like a TinyURL link point to the picture/photo stored on Plurkpix’s servers. Also, keep in mind, you’re not allowed to post a standard 140 characters, they also set a maximum 100 characters a message in your plurk or tweet.

If you’ve more than a thousand of friends in Twitter, you want to know the “follow” status of your Twitter network, Less Friends might be a great tool for you. It is a Twitter tool that offered insight into your Twitter friends’ following status, make it possible to show in a chart who are follow you, or you follow them, or you both are mutual following as they are manifested on the Web.

Matt (aka The Mattinator) is a new Web application that let users to post to multiple Twitter accounts without having to log into each one every time. It was developed by a team of Web developers that based in the U.K. As a long-time reader of some Web design magazines printed in the U.K., my first impression on this site is that it was a Web product from the U.K., albeit that I’m having the difficulty in justify their color choices of the elements in their Web design.

Fundamentally, I didn’t see the logic for one Twitter user to open few Twitter accounts, and she desperately need to get a Web application to help her solve the multiple login problems, but the birth of this site has the positive effect on the other end. The way I look at this site, Matt was more of an experiment to see how quickly they could build an entire new site with a programming language, i.e. Python that they’re not familiar with, and a Python Web framework, i.e. Django within four days. And of course, with the Twitter API as well. This will help convince more programmers in using Web frameworks when they’re looking for fast development, and potential users can test out the product in a shorter time frame.

twhirl: Allows Twitterers to connect to multiple Twitter and FriendFeed accounts. Available as a desktop client, and current version is 0.8.2. Some other notable features are the support of FriendFeed rooms, Summize, a Twitter search engine, pops up notifications on new tweets, and etc.

I came across Plurk when it get started on the Web. Now I knew that whenever there’s a new Web startup launched, and I quickly registered it, I’ll get a bigger chance to use it under my preferred name. Frankly, I didn’t use Plurk much (that’s why my karma point on Plurk became negative), one of the biggest reason is that I still keep my strong faith on Twitter, and I made my friends there as well. Those friends are the people that I valued of, and eventually become closer on Facebook. And without Twitter, I couldn’t know them online. Will I make some really helpful friends on Plurk, who know?

But there’s a thing that Plurk attracted me, it is a site that had already been developed using the now ubiquitous Python programming language. As a Python language lover, joining and participating this site that developed by a group of like-minded people is a good and must thing to do.

On Plurk, it’s a kinda like Twitter, allowing one to post her latest update, maximum to 140 characters to the community. You’ll notice that there’s a headless animal and an odd timeline user interface, proposing that they’re different from Twitter or any other micro blogging platforms on the Web. If you’re a fan of Twitter, you must not familiar with reading or keeping all of your updates or your friends’ updates in a move left or move right direction of your timeline. However, judging by the funny avatars of the Plurk team, you would think that the offering of Plurk is to provide you a different environment, a fun environment for you to post your update. This can be further justified by the availability of emoticons, and some qualifiers such as loves, likes, shares, gives, hates, wants, and etc.

Will you use Plurk? A better question is, do you prefer a bird instead of a headless animal? I read some said, ” I’m not convinced. I prefer Twitter.” Or, on the other hand, if you don’t have any followers in Twitter, and you’re getting embarrassing to read some of the Twitter users talk about each other all the time on some Twitter profiles, just like in FriendFeed, and you want a way out of it, Plurk is for you. In fact, I quite enjoying to post some plurks, i.e. tweets to my profile, it’s like you’re acting as a DJ, you talk loudly, and not really bother about who will pick up your voices out there.

Summize is a fastest Twitter search engine that I ever know. I find it especially useful when I want to track the buzz of a certain event or topic among all the Twitter users in nearly “real time.” After I keyed into some keywords into the search box for what I am looking for, Summize searched all the real-time conversations on Twitter and came back with the results, it showed “iphone” still one of the top topics among all the Twitter users, and I even see some tweets was indexed less than a minute.

Summize is a great service that compliment the Twitter Public Timeline, by providing a control mechanism on what you really want to read on Twitter. Will it be better to search Summize for the Twitter’s conversations when Twitter is down intermittently? Probably it is. By the way, if you like Summize, I think you’ll also like their soon-to-be launched Realtime Sentiment, Summize’s another project that currently still in labs.

HelloTxt, one of the microblogging aggregator service on the Web has recently added Brightkite and Plurk support. If you look at the lists of services that HelloTxt supporting right now, it is probably the largest microblogging aggregator with the service rendered even to the China users who used FanFou.

On the HelloTxt blog, I see the recent development of HelloTxt in an aggressive way. From the image and video support, to elbow its way into the SMS gateway. If you haven’t heard or used HelloTxt, you will. Like many others that used HelloTxt extensively, I opened my account there recently. One of the biggest reason that prompt me to use HelloTxt is not the convenient feature that HelloTxt rendered, i.e. help to post all the message to several microblogging services such as Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Facebook, etc.

I used it very often nowadays because I want to abandon the use of a Web service called TinyURL. TinyURL is good, help to shorten a long URL to a shorter one. Whenever I post a new blog post, I used Twitter to post my latest update of my blog to the followers there, and Twitter will thereby generate a TinyURL from my long blog post to a short one, and my followers can click on it and read the one I written. However, I found a problem whenever I read some other articles that was redirected by TinyURL, my Anti-Spyware ZoneAlarm will block my PC from access to it. I know I can unblock it, but read a forum of ZoneAlarm made me believed it was the best way to use an alternative one and avoid my post being blocked.

Ping.fm, a free status update tool has now added support for the newly popularized Plurk as well as My Mashable and Xanga, according to Ping.fm blog. In other word, it mean Ping.fm users can submit their updates from this Ping.fm site to a total number of fourteen (14) social services, such as the aforesaid three new sites, and Bebo, Blogger, hi5, Jaiku, Twitter, MySpace, just to name a few.

I prefer this type of service, especially in a time-crunch and wanted so much to post my latest update to my friends that follow me. Our friendship has thus maintained in that manner, and I knew how difficult it would be to catch up with each other when we’re all based in different regions. By the way, I tried it just now, albeit with a short message that is able to post to Twitter, while on my Facebook, my Facebook status didn’t showed the message.

Ping.fm is still in beta phase. If you want to try the service, you can key-in the beta code, i.e. landofping that Ping.fm shared with me. Enjoy.