There are several things missing, but from this start, I think they can go very very far. One request I have is reading sets as well, not only sending to sets; and of course the process of adding friends by recognizing their first name is stupid as well.

But again, it seems to me that they CAN go from there and that feels great. The only reason to really go on with twitter at the moment is the mobile page (I use twitter exclusivly as data in my browser, and on the mobile with the reduced pages).

(Spam bots suck at math – they don’t suck at math, they just hit you with all numbers until they crackec your code and then spam you again, but it is a start)

I’ve enjoyed the overall Pownce experience so far, but I’ve struggled with the pownce.air application on my MacBook Pro and I really don’t like having to go to the website because the desktop app doesn’t like me.

I seem to have bugs with the AIR application that others don’t and finding information on issues or getting any sort of feedback from bug reports seems non-existent. I don’t even think there was a changlog with the last update I downloaded.

Most of my more tech/web friends have slipped back to twitter, but of the new people I know jumping into this sort of pointless social networking standard are taking a cling to Pownce. I tried to justify that they were different but they share the same basic function and people seem to make their choice for one or the other.

I agree w/ maique that no mobile updates are a huge blow to the system. I never use my phone for updates on twitter so I didn’t really notice it, but my friends point it out all the time.

Time will tell though…

jaiku is perfect for those who want to keep a life stream, and follow someone else’s stream while at it.
it also allows some sort of commenting feature for those with tumblr blogs, that lacks that feature. it’s a strange workaround but you can get it to work if you feed jaiku with your tublr url..

while pownce is well designed (i’ll give them that) it fails miserably on some other stuff. i can send files bigger than 10mb in a thousand different ways (including, gasp, email) and link-sending seems just plain stupid to me.

i’m on pownce (i’m an beta-slut) but don’t use it and i keep using twitter more and more. same goes for jaiku. the more i use jaiku, the better i feel with it…

You can actually group together your contacts but in Pownce it’s called sets. I was able to start doing this once I got to four contacts. I’ve one for work vs friends. Otherwise nice article.