It seems as if there are a million Twitter applications, widgets, and ways to publicise your membership and latest Tweets, but things are a bit twickier when it comes to Plurk.
So far, there has been an unofficial API, and third party Plurk tools are thin on the ground. But even more annoyingly, I can’t use the official Plurk widget.
There’s a simple reason. They offer it for users to embed into a Facebook, Myspace, or blog page. But they’ve fixed the width, so trying to display it on this blog, for instance, means the sidebar will be blown apart. And the width is set at 300 pixels wide – way too much for most pages on Facebook or Myspace.
So for the moment, I’ll not be sharing my Plurking as much as my Tweeting.
… not to mention inability to customize the html output with css the way twitter feeds can! but i bet soon the widget will improve.
I had the same problem with the Plurk widget and narrow sidebars, ’til someone told me how to fix it: Put the widget inside an appropriately-sized div tag. It worked on my TypePad blog, but I ended up not using it because I couldn’t change the colors.