Pownce
Pownce!
OK so everyone that has been around the Internet has heard about twitter, and if you haven’t then you have been under that proverbial rock. Twitter is a web app where your friends can follow what you are doing by reading your twitters that you post/update to your twitter account via web or mobile phone. Now comes along a sort of similar app but different in many ways. Pownce has a lot more flexibility & features for someone needing more than just updating friends. It takes features that we use in many different apps like, twitter, instant messengers, flickr, social networking sites, etc and rolls it all into one very neat web app. Pownce was just recently opened to the public earlier this month (Jan 22). Pownce was co-created by Kevin Rose. Kevin Rose should sound familiar as he is also the founder of Digg.com and co-founder of Revision3.com.
Once you join Pownce just like twitter there are different ways of using the application. There is the website application, a desktop application you can download, even a mobile application for sending your messages, and some other cool widgets, etc. The 1st thing you will want to do is find and add your friends to you friends list. There is an option to send invites to your friends by email so they can join you on Pownce. Also you can search to see if any of your friends are already on Pownce, or you can add new friends that are in the Pownce network. The way someone becomes your friend is you add them and they accept. Now if you like the things someone post and want to add them and they don’t accept then you become a fan and you can see their “public” post in your pownce.
The thing that really differentiates this app is that you can create “Sets”, which is basically creating groups of your friends that you want to send stuff to that you don’t want all your friends to receive. For instance if you have a group of co-workers that you want to send a file to you would create a “Set” called co-workers and only they would get this file.
So to recap, you can send something out to “the public” which would be everyone, “all my friends” where only your friends could see, “individual friends”, or a “set” a specified group that you create.
When you open up the app you have 4 options of which you can send: Message, Link, File, Event. When sending a link or file there is a place that you can explain/describe/summarize what you are posting. Another good feature when posting links to pictures or videos it can embedded the pic or video in the post itself so you can see it without leave the app. Once you post something, the people that have received the post can comment and rate the file, message, link, event.
Overall I felt that Pownce was a very useful well thought out and clean application. I invite all to join me on Pownce and let me know what you think compared to similar apps.
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