foolfillment: the blog

Heard of twitter? Well pownce is quite a bit similar, but I think it’s a lot more useful. It’s a new venture by Kevin Rose (digg founder) and it lets you send short messages, links, events, and files to anybody (who uses pownce).

What makes it for me is the easy way to specify who you send things to - my gripe with twitter was the difficulty in sending messages to only certain people. Pownce lets you set up groups for you to put your friends in, so you can have your drinking buddies, your family, your colleagues, your 3rd year Craft and Design class, etc. And then you can send messages to only those groups and not worry about sending inappropriate messages to most of your contacts. (What I haven’t been able to find out yet is if you can have friends in multiple groups, would be useful).

Educational uses? Definitely, they seem far more obvious to me than twitter, which I didn’t really manage to get into. The ease of sending a short message to a class or a group of pupils creates loads of opportunities for teaching.

At the moment it’s invitation only, but there’s a way round that… over at mashable there’s a thread where if you comment with an email address you should get someone sending you an invite - this is how I got mine. I have none left to give out because the rule on mashable is once you’re in you go back and give your invites to people still waiting. Sharing at it’s best.

So, go over to mashable and comment, once you’re into pownce find me and add me as a friend - once I have people to talk to maybe I’ll start talking

Of course you don’t need to have an account, you still view all the public messages, and of course subscribe. This is the feed to my public messages.

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