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- sdcarter, on 10/11/2007, -8/+146Wait... "What is it?
Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You'll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast."
Why wouldn't I just send an email? - MrFatalistic, on 10/11/2007, -8/+144it would have been cooler if it were just Pwnce, then you could say "YOU JUST GOT PWNCED!"
yeah I'm completely uncool. - SwornPacifist, on 10/11/2007, -12/+145And it's called Pownce? Really? Have we just completely run out decent domain names?
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -12/+128I'M IN UR URLS MAKIN EM PHONIKIAL
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+115"The app (built using Adobe AIR) allows you to send messages, links, files, and events to groups of friends."
Doesn't that already exist? I think it's called.. E-mail? - cfinke, on 10/11/2007, -8/+100So it's pretty much Twitter with support for posting files?
- JangoFett, on 10/11/2007, -6/+92I wonder how long it will take the RIAA to figure out that this will be used for mp3s and start sending the ceist & desist letters.
- kevinrose, on 10/11/2007, -8/+86"Megatechtronium does not claim ownership rights in any Content that User chooses to post to the Site or send using the Services. After posting Content to the Site or sending Content using the Services, User continues to retain all ownership or license rights in such Content." -- hope that helps. (refresh page)
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -13/+87Visit my blog at clownpenis.fart.
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -11/+77I don't think I'm alone here when I say: Leah Culver is hot. Kevin needs to pownce on her.
http://pownce.com/about/ - cfinke, on 10/11/2007, -8/+71Hmmm... The TOS says that Pownce.com is "granted a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right to fully exploit" any content you send through the service. I'm not sure I like that.
- betobeto, on 10/11/2007, -2/+49At least they didn't name it Powncr.
- chicagobiker, on 10/11/2007, -1/+38I'm pretty sure Daniel Burka has that covered already. :)
- michaelb1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+35That's exacty what i thought. Am I missing something?
Maybe KRose will discuss its "unique" features on diggnation.
I hope it HAS unique features. Otherwise why bother. - Nossie, on 10/11/2007, -3/+38I'd have to say ... yes we have....
all those money grabbing bastards that buy batches of domain names just to try and sell them on should be put up against a wall and shot. - tHePeOPle, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36Ah, apparently we haven't run out of decent names then.
- gardnmi, on 10/11/2007, -4/+38or AIM or Facebook or Myspace or The SImpsons
- djmaverick, on 10/11/2007, -2/+36File size limit?
- pr0t0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+31I was thinking the same thing. Exacly how is this different than say GMail groups? Aside from the fact that google is probably far more reliable.
- noliberalbull, on 10/11/2007, -2/+33sounds to me like they're trying to reinvent email...
- Universal, on 10/11/2007, -2/+29Whoa, is Megatechtronium a real company?
That's a bad-ass name right there :-)
Update: Looks at http://Pownce.com/about, notices
"Together, we formed a wee company with a great big name, Megatechtronium, that makes this software." - Syrusviper, on 10/11/2007, -16/+43Sounds like a hybrid of twitter and facebook. Without all the crappy parts of facebook.
- dburka, on 10/11/2007, -4/+28On the homepage: At least to start, we're keeping some control over registration so that we can scale the system under control. Scaling? It basically means that if a ton of people joined all at once at the beginning our site might slow down to a crawl. That would suck for everyone. So, as we get confident with the performance of the site, we'll begin letting more and more people in.
- sishgupta, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25Isn't Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo) only available for Windows and Mac?
I didn't think the *nix crowd would be so easily cast aside by Mr. Rose.
Anyway, heres hoping Adobe gets a *nix version out sometime before the end of this decade (and hopefully adobe doesn't pull a macromedia with flash and shockwave) - Krovvy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21Web 2.0, it's Web 1.0 ideas with community and social ideas. Web 3.0 will feature the same ideas as Web 2.0, but made for introverts and will have beefy privacy settings.
- cmorrell, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21I don't get what the difference between this and the AOL/MSN/Yahoo/Google/etc IM systems. Except that less people I know use it. With Trillian I can send messages, files, links and events to my friends easily. And, hell, I don't even need to use Trillian--I can do it via e-mail. I particularly don't get this: "Kind of like CC'ing an email, only recipients can see and respond to what you send." Isn't that what the Reply All button is for? What am I missing?
- jschuur, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20It's great to see Kristen Bell got a gig coding, now that Veronica Mars has been canceled, but why did she change her name to Leah?
- xtmno3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20From: http://pownce.com/leahculver/
about 2/3 of the way down:
Kevin R. said: "oooo crap...digg traffic" - meechwings, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Well, if you're sending a 100MB file then e-mail's useless, so if this lets you do that then it'll be useful. Especially if it doesn't plaster your page with a ton of ads, a la SendSpace/YouSendIt/RapidShare/etc.
We'll see. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14That's exactly what I was thinking
This could be a clean p2p app. - chicagobiker, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Look for this added to Twitter or Jaiku in 3...2...
- shawnbot, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Adobe plans to have Linux support ready in the 1.0 release of AIR:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:DeveloperFAQ#Does_Adobe_AIR_support_Linux.3F - Crispuk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12And you can be dugg down correctly.
- rebump, on 10/11/2007, -13/+24No, its pretty much lame with technologies posted all over it. Neat compilation of tech but why is this needed???
Let the ass kissin' begin though. - SonicRush, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10According to this page it's 10MB for normal users, 100 MB for pro users. I was getting my hopes up too.... :(
http://onezom.com/2007/06/27/pownce-a-quick-rundown/ - leahculver, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12http://megatechtronium.com/
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I'm pretty sure it's pronounced like 'pounced'
- TomTruelle, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12i actually like the name
- alberto24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Video review of Pownce:
http://www.centernetworks.com/pownce-its-pretty-freakin-sweet - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Give me a U. Give me a S. Give me a E. I'm done wasting my time, so go ahead and throw a LESS on the end. What does that spell!? USELESS! That's right! USELESS!! Goooooooooo USELESS!!!
- positron, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Did you seriously just say that most people use Facebook?
- JamesMcEwan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Here's a quick post with a few screen shots: http://onezom.com/2007/06/27/pownce-a-quick-rundown/
- fpcyber, on 10/11/2007, -7/+14Great. Why need this? Facebook already has all these features. Most people have facebook.
Buried: useless. - lennon2600, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Like Pando, except easier. It's a small little ute that'll be buried or bought, eventually. It's actually shocking that the developers of AIM, Adium, etc., haven't done this yet. It'd be nice to know whether it reads "poanced" or "pounced". Don't know whether either makes sense. We'll know more soon enough.
- mattprice, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Shot? Nah, that's not violent enough and it's too quick.
- neoian, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10I'm not really getting the idea behind this. Seems like you have made a skinned private email system with the ability to spam your files to everyone. Oh joy!
- adholden, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8not down....just restricted to friends only! and btw...is just a funny quote from the movie 'boogie nights.'
- LordofShadows, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Nah we dont need to do a feasibility study, everyone will use it cause we're awesome.
- blurrie, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9i think it has potential.
i don't know if the mainstream is going to go seek out and install air.
but for the people who do seek out and install things like the firefox crowd..
it could be cool. -
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