I’ve just started trying out pownce thanks to my buddy vlad. I was super curious about the app they made for the Adobe AIR platform. It works pretty well. It’s light and uncluttered. I’ve been using email to do the same thing for a long time, but I get so much email in a day, little links and notes get swallowed up. Pownce provides me with a nice channel of tid bits.
Here’s a screenshot of the app they developed on Adobe AIR:
It’d be great if pownce could separate messages and links based on tags. For example, my roommates can send me apartment links from craig’s list in one feed, while my other friends can send me stupid videos in another.
People have compared Pownce to Twitter, and I understand the comparison, but I just don’t understand the usefulness of twitter. As a social network, I think twitter’s usefulness is limited. It seems to only provide the superficial gratification of knowing what someone is thinking or doing at any given moment. However, I think businesses could use twitter to relay messages to workers quickly about location and status without texting or, god forbid, calling them. In that situation there would be a practical use for the service.
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