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Pownce, Whats the point?
By Robert | June 28, 2007
It has been rumored for a while that Kevin Rose of Digg.com has been hard at work with a few people on something to do with instant messaging. Up until now, no one had a clue what it was and how it would work. Well, the cat Pownced out of the bag on Tuesday.
Pownce is a new way of sending anything from messages, files, links and events to friends and family online. It runs off a base of Adobe’s Apollo runtime platform, taking full advantage of the many benefits this platform brings, like building one application for Mac, PC and Linux systems, and Amazons S3 file storage. So in order to use it, AIR must be downloaded and installed first.
First thing you do to get started with Pownce is to create a network of friends that you want to share items with, then you can choose whether to send it to the whole list, or specific people. Basically, whoever you want to read or see you item, will be able to. It’s free, and ad supported.
Pownce is still in an invite only mode so the system can be monitored and scaled accordingly. Users who want to get in on this application can sign up on the Pownce website.
I won’t be bending over backwards to get an invite to this one. As far as I can see this is nothing more then one more IM client on the market. With all the hype and talk, I have yet to see one feature that is, not only unique, but one that is not in every other IM client out there. I may have missed the big message on this on, and I hope I have, but for what I can tell this is nothing special and should be treated that way.
I am a big fan of Kevin Rose and what he has done and continues to do with Digg, but for some reason this seems to lack his usual flair. I hope I have completely missed the point of this project, as I think there is a huge gap in the market for a truly great IM client, but so far I don’t think this is it.
If someone out there knows why this should be so great, please let me know. I would love to like this as much as Digg. I can’t see that happening anytime soon.
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