First Annual Extra Character Day - October 6th

We are pleased to announce the first ever Extra Character Day on Koornk. Starting this year, you will be able to use one (1) extra character in your clucks on Koornk - 151 characters. This feature will be available on this day and only - until the next Extra Character Day, when we will add +1 chracter (+2 in 2010, +3 in 2011, …).

We are starting this great tradition to honor communication, social media and the written word. Get involved in Extra Character Day by writing your clucks just a bit (or a character) longer today. We can also recommend a few one letter words:

a – the indefinite article
I – the first person singular nominative pronoun
O – an interjection derived from the vocative case of Latin, commonly used in poetry
Both I and O are capitalized when used.

There are also various single letter words used as abbreviations in text-speak and related uses:

b – “be” or “bee”
c – “sea” or “see”
f – “fat”
g – “Gee”
I – “eye”
j – “jay”
k – “okay”
n – “and”
o – “oh”
p – “pea” (small green vegetable) or “pee” (to urinate)
q – “cue” or “queue”
r – “are”
t – “tea”
u – “you”
v – “very”, for example: V Graham Norton
x – part of the phrase “x out”
y – “why”
Various digits have also been pressed into service in this manner:

1 – “won”
2 – “to”, “too”. Can also be used as part of a word. E.g. 2moro (tomorrow).
4 – “for” – Can also be used as part of a word. The complete list: a4d, 4cast, 4m, 4mer, 4milk, 4most, 4t, 4ty
6 – Can be used as part of “sixty” (6ty)
7 – Can be used as part of “seventy” (7ty)
8 – “ate” – Can also be used as part of a word. The completete list: abdic8, adumbr8, adjucdic8, ag8, anim8, b8, b8d calibr8, celeb8, celebr8, complic8, cr8, d8, defic8, dumbw8r, equ8, f8, g8, gr8, h8, infl8, infl8able, ir8, irrig8, l8, l8r, mastic8, m8, navig8, obl8, pal8, pal8al, pl8, r8, r8d, r8ing, s8, sk8, sk8r, st8, str8, t8r, urin8, veget8, w8, 8y
9 – “night”, a shortened form of “good night”

(all the great one word info via Wikipedia).

Have fun.

Inline media, #topics and other new koornk candy

We’ve made a bigger update of koornk in recent days. The most visually attractive new feature, and thus the most obvious, is that media files (photos via pikchur and YouTube videos) are now being displayed inline. In the old days, you had to leave koornk to watch YouTube videos or to take a look at user submitted photos. But now, you can admire all the media galore right there in the crazy koornk flow of clucks.

koornk inline media

When watching videos, you get all the regular YouTube controls, so everything feels familiar right out of the box :)

YouTube video with all the regular controls

How do you upload media and make it display inline? The regular way. Just post a pikchur photo or paste a link to a video on YouTube and the miracolous koornk engine will do the rest (it recognizes the link as media content and displays it inline). You will have to reload the page so the server will cache the content and display it right in your cluck.

If you don’t want media being displayed inside of clucks, you can always disable the feautre with just one simple click in the ‘Filter clucks’ menu in the right sidebar.

We also made the use of topics simpler and more streamlined. You can now assign a cluck to a topic with the use of hashtags (if the topic is only one word). And it also has an autocomplete feature.

If you start writing a cluck, that you want to assign to the topic #tek, you write your cluck, enter the hashtag (#) and the first letter of the topic and then just select it from the list of topics that start with the letter t.

(the list only displays topics that you already follow)

The same autocomplete feautre has been added to the user mention system.

And last, but not least, we’ve added a recluck (RT) feautre, which lets you recluck someting that you found really interesting by just clicking ‘->’ inside that cluck. The icon is located just below the ‘reply’ button.

We hope you enjoy the new features and if you have anything to say about them, koornk or any other thing going on at the universe, just let us a cluck #koornk :)

Gravatar support

Fellahs, a little bit of good (old) news, in which we already got attention.

Gravatar lets you upload a picture or avatar of yourself and use on various sites around the web. So when you comment on a Gravatar enabled site, your picture will appear beside your comment. We have full support for Gravatar in the status streams on Koornk. If you would like to create your own Gravatar icon you can do so here.

screenshot from “photo settings” when logged in:

Add Koornk to your site

Here’s a neat way to let visitors to your blog or profile page on the web know what you’re up to at the moment: Display your latest updates there with a customized widget.

Grab the HTML code below and paste it into your web page - replace ##USER## with your Koornk username.

<div id="koornk_statuses">
<h3>Koornk Updates</h3>
<ul id="koornk_update_list"></ul>
<a href="http://koornk.com/user/##USER##/" id="koornk-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;">follow me on Koornk</a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://koornk.com/tools/koornk/widget.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://koornk.com/api/timeline/##USER##/?callback=koornk_callback&limit=3"></script>


To ensure loading of your page even in the case of koornk.com non-loading, move the two lines that start with <script type="text/javascript"... to the bottom of your page (just above </body>)

Moved to WordPress

We are now live on WordPress :)

Some comments from previous platform disappeared - will be restored as soon as possible. Also, if you have any suggestions or wishes about plugins / widgets / add-ons, let us know.