Matt Coddington

Edit: Just sent out my last invite.

Tony from DJI hooked me up with a Pownce (my profile) invite yesterday. I think he and his invitees have all of his readers covered with invites, so I have 6 to give to whoever comments here. Just comment with your email address and I’ll send one out.

My first impressions of Pownce are that it’s pretty nifty. I was going into it all determined to find massive flaws, but aside from the obnoxious default email notifications it’s really a pretty solid site. Is it better than Twitter? I don’t think they’re really all that comparable. Twitter has the benefit of being open-ended and is already being integrated into other systems such as Facebook. Pownce comes across as a lot more restricted. I could be wrong, but it doesn’t look like Pownce will be like Twitter in that it will be easily integrated into multiple sites, software, etc.

As far as the bonus features that Pownce has over Twitter - picture sending, file sending, etc etc. They’re nice baubles, but they’re little more than baubles. I could, however, see how some people would prefer it over email, Facebook, etc.

At the end of the day Pownce is just a better organized and better constructed Twitter. If this succeeds it won’t only be because Kevin Rose’s name is all over it (although that certainly doesn’t hurt it), but because it’s a prettier, easier to use, and better organized Twitter.