Buried in all the iPhone noise last week was the launch of Pownce. It looks like another micro-blog tool similar to Twitter.
Pownce is started by 4 people including Digg's Kevin Rose. It is currently by invitation only. After some begging, I was able to score one from Jeremiah (thanks!)
I have not moved over to it (yet) as most of the people are still on twitter, but I did download both the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and the OSX client.
Few comments I have regarding the OSX client so far...
- Unlike Twitter, Leah C. of Pownce and team were smart and released client for both Mac and Windows right out of the gate. Twitter started only with web and thus various unofficial clients started sprawling out.
- Each entry in the client requires a click to expand what ppl write. I was wondering why ppl write incomplete sentences until I realized I needed to click on each message.
- I know the OSX client is still in alpha, but a few things jumped out at me.
- There is no auto-login, I'm forced to click on "Sign In" every time when the app starts.
- It is not intuitive that the "X" button on upper right hand corner actually quits the application, not just close it.
- Command-W also quits it, not just close it (as I was expecting it to).
- Only Command-H would hide it away.
- I also constantly get the below error message
Now I just have to figure out who I can get onto Pownce...
4 comments:
That error message... I keep getting it too. Have somehow not felt inclined writing that e-mail though; incenetive missing. Apart from that I feel fond of Pownce and I have had good use of the file charing feature.
marie, thx for leaving the comment.
yeah, I'm trying hard to see if Pownce would stick, but until then, both twitter and pownce it is.
Also I just had an elevating feeling at being able to write a comment longer than 140 characters :P
Wooo!! Wooo!! Pick me!! Wooo!! ^^/
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