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Pownce stands for participation

I was listening to Leo Laporte and John C. Dvorak argue about the difference between Pownce and Twitter. Guys, THEY ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Twitter simply asks, "What are you doing?"
Pownce doesn't ask you any questions. Instead, it feels like a comfortable, social web app. Yea, it looks like Twitter, but you can choose different media types, and they have this revolutionary thing called commenting.       
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I know that you can "at" or "D" people on Twitter, but interacting with a tweet isn't as elegant as this:
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I can't ever see myself leaving Twitter though. It kinda reminds me of MySpace. I am kinda ashamed to be using a web application built on faulty software, but the community is there. Twitter is successful because it's right here, right now. It's simply about your friend's status, and it's much easier to digest. Pownce takes more effort, but your experience is richer. So-called "micro-blogging" excites me, and I want to know how it will evolve. The web community that can figure out a way to aggregate everyone's social data into one easy-to-digest format will survive the upcoming web 2.0 bust. Could it be Friendfeed, Iminta, Jaiku, ? Personally, I think it must integrate email. That's why Google has the leg up on everybody. Oh, and they already have a . Pownce is doing a good job of luring me in a few times a day. It's more fun that Twitter because it involves my initiative to click through to videos, browse someone's photos, or listen to my friend's favorite songs. Twitter just gives me a tinyURL. Which social network do you enjoy most? Which one do you look forward to participating in?
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  • Cindy

    Hey, that’s me! :) I’M FAMOUS!!

  • Cindy

    Hey, that’s me! :) I’M FAMOUS!!

  • http://geekynano.wordpress.com/ Rafy

    I use Twitter to micro-blog, and I use Pownce to look for material for my actual blog, people post great links, videos and pictures on Pownce that are great blogging material.

    btw Andrew, your my buddy an all but I hate CAPTCHA.

  • http://geekynano.wordpress.com/ Rafy

    I use Twitter to micro-blog, and I use Pownce to look for material for my actual blog, people post great links, videos and pictures on Pownce that are great blogging material.

    btw Andrew, your my buddy an all but I hate CAPTCHA.

  • Mark Bate

    As you probably know, I’m a fellow powncer.
    I dunno, it’s just really nice & straightforward to use.
    Sure there’s a few things that we’d all like added in, but for the most part Leah & the guys have done a great job with it.

    I use Facebook to keep in contact with friends from work, highschool & just life in general.. and for throwing the odd sheep at someone haha ;p

    Twitter gets used occasionally for little “I hate application X” or “hurray! I’m at Y hanging out with ”… it’s one of those things that I haven’t trained myself into fully doing.

    and Myspace gets used for posting bulletins/surveys of random crap fro stress relief.. that’s one of the good things I’ve learnt about MySpace.. it’s very plastic, so noone cares what you post, most of the time noone reads it.. but those that do often get a good laugh.
    I dunno I hate MySpace for being buggy as anything, but it has this strange “come back & see if you get a real page or an ‘an unexpected error has occurred’ page” element to it.. it’s like a skill tester! haha.

  • Mark Bate

    As you probably know, I’m a fellow powncer.
    I dunno, it’s just really nice & straightforward to use.
    Sure there’s a few things that we’d all like added in, but for the most part Leah & the guys have done a great job with it.

    I use Facebook to keep in contact with friends from work, highschool & just life in general.. and for throwing the odd sheep at someone haha ;p

    Twitter gets used occasionally for little “I hate application X” or “hurray! I’m at Y hanging out with ”… it’s one of those things that I haven’t trained myself into fully doing.

    and Myspace gets used for posting bulletins/surveys of random crap fro stress relief.. that’s one of the good things I’ve learnt about MySpace.. it’s very plastic, so noone cares what you post, most of the time noone reads it.. but those that do often get a good laugh.
    I dunno I hate MySpace for being buggy as anything, but it has this strange “come back & see if you get a real page or an ‘an unexpected error has occurred’ page” element to it.. it’s like a skill tester! haha.

  • https://andrewmager.com Andrew Mager

    Rafy, the spammers hate it more :)

  • https://andrewmager.com Andrew Mager

    Rafy, the spammers hate it more :)

  • https://andrewmager.com/2008/05/28/pownce-has-an-aim-bot/ Pownce has an AIM bot — Andrew Mager

    [...] Props to the developers at Pownce for implementing every API possible. If Twitter keeps breaking, we may see a shift over to Pownce, even though they have completely separate purposes. [...]

  • https://andrewmager.com/2008/06/13/this-is-not-what-twitter-is-for/ Andrew Mager » This is not what Twitter is for

    [...] try Plurk or Pownce for this. This entry was written by me, posted on June 13, 2008 at 1:59 pm, filed under Internet, [...]

  • http://www.goodxo.com Moncler

    I saw Brian Lam, does that count?

  • http://www.roout.com GHD

    from a person with an art and design degree, i like the second one best. (even though that art and design degree has anything to do with web design :P )

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