Category Archives: Pownce

What Happened With Pownce?

*image via Quantcast
Almost 8 months into its public launch, Pownce is looking like a bit of a lame duck.
Which is strange (or not).
On paper, Pownce seems like a better Twitter than Twitter, given that you can also share files (up to 100 MB in size), as well as embed photos, videos, or MP3’s.  Plus, [...]

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Pownce Goes Mobile: Squaring Sights On Twitter?

Coming from the metaphorical lips of Kevin Rose himself, Pownce announced its super-alpha mobile version of Pownce today, available for mobile browsing at mobile.pownce.com.  I think this is an interesting development, given that one of the biggest pluses for Twitter has been the ability to message your crowd “off-line”, enabling all kinds of interesting uses, [...]

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Pownce Is Not Twitter, Nor Is It As Important As Twitter.

Probably because it differs in two critical ways.

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I Have Pownce Invites — Help Me Test It Out!

So, I finally got on Pownce yesterday, and I need some help testing it out as I have no friends — on Pownce.
Pathetic, isn’t it? :)
Anyway, I have 6 invites to get things going, so I was hoping to start a chain-invite thing going, where I could invite the first few people who leave comments [...]

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A Deep And Flawed Misunderstanding of A-Lists, Blogs, And Social Networks

… is being propagated by Hugh McLeod, who, once again, has decided to raise the egalitarian “Es Gibt Keine Einliste Es gibt keine A-Liste” (Or, “There is no A-list”, for our non-German reading readers). This issue seems to raise its head every few months, and I am continually flabbergasted that people such as Mr. [...]

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