As if we needed a new social networking site with a strange name.
Plurk claim to fame is that you see your "newsfeed" in a horizontal time line.
I like it and it works interactively with ping.fm so you can plurk while you tweet, tumbl, and update your facebook status
here is my time line as of July 7th it pretty stark.
http://www.plurk.com/ablestudio
Plurk for now.