why Pownce?
Thanks to Hadyn, I received an invite to Pownce. Pretty soon I was in.
And the first question I have for myself, is why? Do we need another of these Web2.0/blog/social apps? Do I need it?
I already am signed up to (he checks through some of the websites in his password storage app) blogger, corkd, facebook, flickr, last.fm, linkedin, magnolia, mog, ning, odeo, secondlife, spock, tumblr, twitter, vimeo, virb, and youtube, among many others. Counting up my different logins today it seems I have well over 200 of various kinds. Why, I ask myself again, why?
Too late. I did it anyway. I am a sucker for NEW.
What the absurdly good-looking bunch of “geeks” creating Pownce seem to be doing is letting small groups of friends communicate short status messages, links, and files easily between each other.
Think a prettier Twitter, but with some nice small group messaging functionality thrown in. There’s a few things still missing: a richer desktop client app; an SMS interface; some more members that I know, are three.
Hopefully all of these will be remedied over time – but at the moment there’s slightly more of a barrier to spontaneous communication than there is with Twitter. Which may not be a bad thing.
And did I say it’s very very pretty? Maybe that trumps my initial “why?”, after all.
Beta testers of Web2.0 apps need friends. I have 5 Pownce invites – let me know if you want one…
jon
3 July 2007, 21:43 #
hey, i’m a faithful reader of your blog and wellingtonista and would love to try out pownce if you have a spare invite.
just a little about me, i moved to wellington from the states 14 months ago, work for massey university and LOVE it here! I live in Karori and really enjoy the photos you take of the wildlife.
cheers,
jon
Martha Craig
3 July 2007, 21:49 #
I just figure resistance is futile. May as well sign up for everything, and just flag the boring ones.
I wanna be where the cool kids are.
Alan
3 July 2007, 22:05 #
Jon: flattery will get you EVERYWHERE. Invite should be in your mailbox now. :-)
Martha: I agree. If we sign up for everything as soon as we find out about it, sooner or later we’ll end up being member No.65 of the next Flickr. And then our plans for world domination will be complete.
Andrew
3 July 2007, 23:25 #
What, you haven’t tried out Jaiku? :)
[disclaimer – I work for them]
Patrick Quinn-Graham
3 July 2007, 23:28 #
I’d try flattery, but I’m still not sure if I care about pownce. Perhaps I need an invite to find out?
Heck
3 July 2007, 23:33 #
They are absurdly good-looking. Damn.
Alan
4 July 2007, 07:10 #
Andrew: the hype for Jaiku never made it as far as me, I’m sorry to say. But you’re right, I should have a look.
Patrick: I was thinking of sending you one anyway… but wanted to make sure you were OK with it first… so it should be in your inbox by now.
Heck: Yep, for so-called geeks I bet they’ve never been grundy-crutched (=wedgie) in their lives. Even the one that looks like Jarvis Cocker.