Comments on: Pownce: micro-blogging made easy

By: Rigoberto

Rigoberto — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:48:24 +0000

This is a nice article, it contains very useful information. Most of all I like the fact that it is a good sourse for making contact with like-minded people and to push any “blog, generating interest in what you are writing about”.

By: Arturo

Arturo — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:13:45 +0000

There is already a Pownce client for the Mac. It is not native though, still powerful enough. Its an Adobe Air application, it has some bugs cause its in beta but will be fixed soon, I hope.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:07:00 +0000

A traffic jam in Mumbai is always likely to be different to one in Cleveland, Ohio, US or even Cleveland, Cumbria, UK.

Take for example a traffic jam in the centre of Delhi, India.

Live stock on the road will always be quite different to the more mundane jack-knifed lorry we see...

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:05:00 +0000

Wayne,
That’s an interesting point you make about escapism. I hadn’t thought about it that way, yet most of the people I’ve corresponded with on Pownce seem to be in Asia or Europe. I’ll have to start thinking about the things I do from a different perspective…i.e. what might be uniquely American. So far the only way I’ve touched on this is in recognizing that traffic in Cleveland is far less dense than in Mumbai. Other than that it has reinforced what I’ve learned when traveling, mo matter where we may live we have more in common than many people realize.

p.s. Thanks for the blog comment!

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:06:00 +0000

Hi Howard, thanks for the comment!

In many ways, they are different, but the way in which they're different means that for me personally, Twitter sinks while Pownce sails.

I was invited to a group chat on Skype some time ago, discussing Twitter4Skype, and I was lucky enough to be amongst some of the developers for Skype.

Right then, Twitter was really cutting a swathe and looked set to become a dominant player in the micro-blogging scene.

Since that time, nothing's changed and the feature set seems stuck.

I like a proper conversation with people, with proper he-said / she-said replies and no insane character limit.

I just can't use Twitter anymore. I thought I could, but I just can't.

As a micro-blogging platform, for me personally, Twitter is far too limited...

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:49:00 +0000

I like using twitter and pownce to be honest. I started with pownce, and tried twitter because so many of my pownce friends were using it. They both seem completely different to me.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:42:00 +0000

Hi Heidi and thanks for both the comment here and adding me as a contact on Pownce! Much appreciated.

You've uncovered a hidden human-driven feature of Pownce, which is how the incidental stuff of one person is escapism for someone else.

An example would be one person taking their dog for a walk on the beach. Another would be someone popping into a deli in downtown New York.

If you've been to neither a beach nor New York, these simple, almost passing incidents are an insight into a lifestyle totally different to your own.

I latched onto this some time ago and I've been slowly edging towards melding incidental dialogue with more meaningful issues, or me posting links as a means of getting some Social Networking traction...

By: Heidi

Heidi — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:14:00 +0000

Nice write up. As a Web developer I decided this summer that I needed to get a better understanding of Web 2.0 and social networking. A few weeks ago I blogged about some of my initial experiments. I’m still trying to get the hang of Powncing and finding legitimate uses for it. It seems the most active users, those who post a lot and receive a lot of replies, write about anything and everything. Somehow I’m not yet compelled to post things like “Drove 4 miles to work this morning with the top down. The weather was brilliant and for once I wished for a longer commute.”

Yet those sorts of things get traffic. And when you have such traffic then add something more purposeful, such as “I just blogged about X” then it seems to come in handy. I guess I’ll get the feel for it over time, but you’re article gave a good summation. And of course I found it because you had put a message out on Pownce saying you’d just finished writing the post!