pownce.com— Pownce has lifted their invite-only status and added a ton of new features. Sign up to send files, links, events and messages to your friends :)
Jan 22, 2008View in Crawl 4
I've been a Powncer for a while now. While I definitely admit that it's not for everyone, I find it fun and useful. It has a different purpose than Twitter (where I am also a member, though hardly). There's no character limit, and being able to provide different types of notes is useful. It still has quite a few "rough spots", but I'm sure Leah and Burka are hard at work. They keep adding little niceties, like image previews for links, uploads, and popular photo sharing sites, video previews for revver and youtube and the like... Stuff that draws you into the content without having to leave the page. Moreover, it has mostly replaced my favorite features of Facebook. With Facebook becoming crowded with too many apps, too many groups, too much... everything... I found myself using it less and less for those purposes, and only for things like sending messages, posting photos, links, and events. And tada - that's what Pownce does for me today - without all the other junk.Admittedly, it's been difficult to get friends and family on the service. Much like Digg in the early days, it's mainly been a place for tech-heads and early-adopters. People who love Facebook for all the features I hate have a hard time justifying the sign-up. People who aren't bothered by Twitter's simplistic (though effective) model for communication might find Pownce limiting, as there is no "public stream" (aside from the API feed), so discoverability is rather low. But... for those who just need those few features, and want everything else to get out of the way, Pownce is great. The uptime has been fantastic, the team very open and friendly to respond to complaints, and the community amazing. More than anything, Pownce has become a platform for social discussion - a sort of micro-forum. Yet, the means of delivery is different enough to make it unique and usable. While I rarely comment in a forum, I'm quick to throw my two cents in on someone's question or conversation. And yes... there have been quite a few people talking trash about Leah Culver. Some of her blog posts are... interesting.... to say the least. One blogger commented about how she wasn't commenting on all the problems related to what is effectively "group instant messaging" on HTTP, where things are stateless and you must worry about things like database performance and redundancy, job queuing and the like, and instead spoke about... how to generate a human-readable password. He basically called her an idiot for ignoring the big problems and blogging about the little ones.I like to think it's because she has all the big problems solved. =)
pownce is fun and pretty easy to use. my only problem is that not alot of my friends are as into technology, not that i'm that great myself, so i have to go around trying to find random people to be my friend. unfortunatly that lead me to an extremely annoying/constant pownce user that took up my entire homepage. i swear to god it seemed like she was the only person on pownce. though i have seen some pretty interesting photo uploads, i would enjoy it alot more if i could easily find people with similar interests that were already on the site. any suggestions?
soonagoJan 22, 2008
Why?
markofthedeadJan 22, 2008
Real life friends or WoW friends? No one I know has one or even cares about it but a lot of them frequent digg and reddit....
emblbyJan 22, 2008
seriously, that's the most annoying part of every social network i'm a part of... when are they going to get a clue and integrate??
kcap122Jan 23, 2008
What would one use pounce for?
grazzitJan 24, 2008
Was hoping this embarassment was just going to be swept under the rug and forgotten about. I'm still amazed they thought anyone wanted this.
sintaksJan 26, 2008
I've been a Powncer for a while now. While I definitely admit that it's not for everyone, I find it fun and useful. It has a different purpose than Twitter (where I am also a member, though hardly). There's no character limit, and being able to provide different types of notes is useful. It still has quite a few "rough spots", but I'm sure Leah and Burka are hard at work. They keep adding little niceties, like image previews for links, uploads, and popular photo sharing sites, video previews for revver and youtube and the like... Stuff that draws you into the content without having to leave the page. Moreover, it has mostly replaced my favorite features of Facebook. With Facebook becoming crowded with too many apps, too many groups, too much... everything... I found myself using it less and less for those purposes, and only for things like sending messages, posting photos, links, and events. And tada - that's what Pownce does for me today - without all the other junk.Admittedly, it's been difficult to get friends and family on the service. Much like Digg in the early days, it's mainly been a place for tech-heads and early-adopters. People who love Facebook for all the features I hate have a hard time justifying the sign-up. People who aren't bothered by Twitter's simplistic (though effective) model for communication might find Pownce limiting, as there is no "public stream" (aside from the API feed), so discoverability is rather low. But... for those who just need those few features, and want everything else to get out of the way, Pownce is great. The uptime has been fantastic, the team very open and friendly to respond to complaints, and the community amazing. More than anything, Pownce has become a platform for social discussion - a sort of micro-forum. Yet, the means of delivery is different enough to make it unique and usable. While I rarely comment in a forum, I'm quick to throw my two cents in on someone's question or conversation. And yes... there have been quite a few people talking trash about Leah Culver. Some of her blog posts are... interesting.... to say the least. One blogger commented about how she wasn't commenting on all the problems related to what is effectively "group instant messaging" on HTTP, where things are stateless and you must worry about things like database performance and redundancy, job queuing and the like, and instead spoke about... how to generate a human-readable password. He basically called her an idiot for ignoring the big problems and blogging about the little ones.I like to think it's because she has all the big problems solved. =)
ilovethewacokidFeb 2, 2008
pownce is fun and pretty easy to use. my only problem is that not alot of my friends are as into technology, not that i'm that great myself, so i have to go around trying to find random people to be my friend. unfortunatly that lead me to an extremely annoying/constant pownce user that took up my entire homepage. i swear to god it seemed like she was the only person on pownce. though i have seen some pretty interesting photo uploads, i would enjoy it alot more if i could easily find people with similar interests that were already on the site. any suggestions?
angrypenguin47Feb 8, 2008
buried for lack of linux support.
sourcitrusMar 10, 2008
Pownce ... ever feel like you're talking to yourself? is a thumbs up
esmond4May 22, 2008
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caballSep 6, 2008
Someone who was in the Pownce beta for a long time before it went public...
cjfjcjfjcJan 1, 2009
hey wait, isn't pownce dead?