To Pownce or crawl?

May 21, 2008 · Filed Under Technology · Comment 

Everything Kevin Rose touches turns to gold right?

Well – I’m still waiting for Pownce to get the midas affect.

Launched nearly a year ago – Pownce has yet to see an upsurge in user acceptance.

Built on the adobe AIR framework and touting features such as message shares (ooh.. unique eh..), file sharing, event sharing and of course social community.

Set up as a competitor and superior product to AIM and all IM clients it ends up that the main competition comes from Twitter (and all those twitter-holics).

Of course Pownce is free to use for a basic account. You can send up to 10Mb file in the basic account. There are also specially made pages that are dedicated for each event so people would know about them and they will be given the privilege to sign up and take part of it.

You will in fact be given the opportunity to split your friends into sets so you can send messages to specific niches of people.

The site also features integration with other profiles in other websites so you will have the ability to import friend lists from other services. Pownce is a neat way to get connected!

What’s Lacking? No sms, No rss feeds. (come on.. what are you thinking Kev)

The client will only be as good as the community around it.

And in order to build the community they’ve got some work to do.

Pedigree can’t be beat with Kevin backing it – but I think he’s going to need to spend some of his hard earned digg-cash if he is going to get it to critical mass.

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