Oh, good God, what a conundrum.
Kevin Rose’s new pet project is a little sumpin’ sumpin’ called Pownce. The elevator pitch seems like its Twitter / Tumblr mishmash with file sharing … I think.
At any rate, I *want* to keep an open mind with this little project because I haven’t gotten my grubby paws on an alpha invitation — and, based on my prior reputation with Kevin Rose’s main project, I probably won’t get one for a while (unless I’m thinking too much of myself, insofar that anyone at Digg even knows of this blog or me).
But based on all available information thus far, it looks totally underwhelming.
I don’t know if its Truemors type underwhelming, but …. the proof of the pudding is in the tasting, as they say.
If you’re interested in a sample page of what Pownce looks like, check out the following pages:
One last germ of a thought:
If this does become successful, I wonder if it will be in spite of its technology, which doesn’t seem all that impressive based on the description and from what I’m seeing. Rather, I wonder if it will be successful precisely because of why Truemors was “successful”, why Mahalo gets 90% of the press its getting, why Spock needs more users, or even half of the reason why Digg is the darling of the web2.0 set.
Yeah — you know why it is … the “celebrity geek” effect.
And more power to Kevin Rose if he can pull it off. You can’t begrudge a man for wanting to leverage all that time on G4TechTV into something meaningful, I guess.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:59 am | Permalink
Read my full review on Mash (not the initial preview, the new one). You might be surprised. Pownce is actually really good, and I for one am dumping Twitter as soon as this thing is out of invite-only beta.
June 28th, 2007 at 8:24 am | Permalink
Yeah, and I’ve read Ryan Stewart’s and Allen Stern’s as well. All generally positive.
Looks like they’re trying to make a better mousetrap, rather than trying to re-invent the mousetrap. Sounds like the 37signals route, actually.
Well, as I say … until I get my grubby paws on it, it’ll be hard for *me* to know. ;)
June 28th, 2007 at 8:28 am | Permalink
Let’s please not put this in the same category as Truemors :)
This actually looks useful. Twitter-who?
And like Stan and Pete, I wanted to hate it.
June 30th, 2007 at 12:26 pm | Permalink
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