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  • Mark Jaquith July 17, 2007 @ 10:48 pm

    Once they add an API, this is going to own.

    It’s much more conversational than Twitter, and support for Atom linklogs (rel="related" rocks. Groups are really powerful… I can target a link to “WP Devs” or “WP Core Devs.” They really nailed the types of message that are important: Text, Events, Files, Links.

  • Niklas July 18, 2007 @ 12:03 am

    Only trick is you’ve gotta have social, somewhat nerdy friends to get with the program. I’ve got _one_ and I’m a Network Admin. C’mon, peeeeps! I wonder why we Swedes are invariably slow at adapting new techs, apart from teenagers. Sure Pownce is alpha and invite-only, but Inviteshare takes care of that easily.

  • Abe July 18, 2007 @ 12:38 am

    What is you Pownce nickname?

  • Sean Yeomans July 18, 2007 @ 1:41 am

    Can you get me in Matt? *batts eyes*

  • Anders Dahnielson July 18, 2007 @ 2:46 am

    I hear ya’, Niklas!

    Here’s a second Swede with no social friends. Del.icio.us, Last.fm, Flickr (ok, Wordie might be a little bit at the fringe). You almost have to force feed them, but people will still not get the point and what’s great about them. Why can’t we all be have people like Matt or Jeremy Keith as best friends… ;-)

  • Otto July 18, 2007 @ 7:44 am

    I’ve had it for a few weeks, and I still don’t see the advantages to it. It’s basically yet-another-IM-system, only it’s one that nobody I know uses. As for Twitter, well, it doesn’t even compare to Twitter until they get it hooked up to SMS Text messages.

  • Skeddy July 18, 2007 @ 11:19 am

    Oh god not ANOTHER one!!

  • danithew July 18, 2007 @ 12:15 pm

    What’s the size limit on file sharing? Just curious …

  • Gnorb July 18, 2007 @ 12:49 pm

    Don’t know if you’re aware, but Ronald Heft has made a WordPress plugin for Pownce. It can be found here. I’m using it on my own blog now. Not bad.

  • Justin Kistner July 19, 2007 @ 12:28 am

    I’ve got two invites. If you want one, drop me a comment.

  • Mikael Pittam July 19, 2007 @ 1:54 am

    Here is my Pownce ID: http://pownce.com/islamcrunch

    You can now group your friends into sets. Cool.

  • Niklas July 19, 2007 @ 2:48 am

    Mine’s http://pownce.com/pivic . Hey, thanks Matt, for letting me find friends through your comments. ;)

  • Andy July 19, 2007 @ 7:44 am

    Yeah we’re loving it too! Perfect for small team collaboration on website production.

  • Mike Grouchy July 19, 2007 @ 9:26 am

    I’ve had pownce for a little while now,and I have friends who are slow adopters so its really hard to make pownce useful at all. My pownce id is http://pownce.com/mgrouchy

  • Michael July 21, 2007 @ 11:37 am

    The most powerful feature on pownce is the filesharing. Getting a large group of musicphiles sharing their favorite songs makes me giddy.

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  • Jason July 23, 2007 @ 1:56 pm

    This is the real evidence Pownce has made inroads.. http://the7gamers.com/staff/

    with the gamer/geek demographics ofcourse :P

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