I wanted to love Pownce but it sucks. Well, not suck, there is just no there, there, which might be worse. All it is is a rethink of a BBS, a forum, boards. Twitter is safe, for now. I love you, Twitter, for now.
“Once I started playing around in Pownce, I realized that while Pownce was more visually appealing to me, Twitter just brought the goods. The simplicity of the solution, and the fact that I had already made the investment of adding a bunch of my core “friends” in, was enough to convince me that Twitter was in fact better for me. In the end, it’s really about usefulness and time not wasted. Twitter got there first, and kept it simple. Therefore, they win.” Via Jim Kukral
There is very little innovation there besides turning a tool like phpBB on its side, turning it from hierarchical to streaming. But it is not a stream and it is also not a forum, which offers useful tools such as “read all posts since last visit.”
Threaded replies are cool and so are file attachments, but they’re not cool enough. Pownce isn’t innovative, it is just a reinterpretation.
Twitter is superior at doing Twitter than either Pownce or Jaiku, and Facebook is better at doing Facebook than Pownce. I am Pownce member 954 and I got a huge spike of friends, 105, and now only a couple folks keep my entire “Pownce experience” alive.
I just received 6 more invites, so pop me an email if you would like to try it out yourself.
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