Back to Bhopu ArchivePosted On Aug 07, 2007
My Review on Pownce
in Social Networking

There goes another website for all the Digg fan boys and techno geeks – Pownce, a website and desktop application that allows users to send music, photos, messages, links, and events to friends. When you send your file, link, message, or event you have the ability to broadcast it to your entire list or message people individually.

File size is limited to 10mb per file sent, or for twenty dollars yearly you can sign up for a “pro” account, which allows you to send files up to 100MB. (Note: the pro account also makes it so you won’t see ads and you get a special badge next to your name)

Review:
In few recent articles I read, people claimed that Pownce might be a Twitter killer, but I don’t agree to the same. Yes Pownce is a lot similar to Twitter as it has desktop applications. But I guess it is based on communication of information not information communication. Its impossible to block or remove unwanted spammers or e-stalkers. Lack of SMS and RSS feeds breaks the communication chain. May be all these are very minor flaws but do we want to see too many of them?

On the other hand, re-locating people on Pownce is very easy, with an added plus of the friends of friends feature. This is something Facebook and a few others could do with looking at.

One major pet peeve I have about social networking or social bookmarking or microblogging websites is that they do not allow us to use our e-mail address book to see if friends are already on the site. Pownce doesn’t allow you to check for that, plus their search is rather clumsy.

Overall, Pownce is a nice site and application but the functionality can be questioned until they make some changes, this site is just for early adopters and not all that practical.

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Tag : File sharing, Facebook, Electronic Communication, Social Networking