Pownce is the newest startup by Kevin Rose. You may know Kevin from his internet fame surrounding digg.com, the online news community. For months Kevin and his developers have been alluding to a new instant message type program that would allow you to share content with your friends.
Today Pownce went beta and you do need an invitation code to get an account. So what is it? Well… Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.
Right now, there are four basic things you can send: messages, links, files, and events. Only the people you choose get to see what you send. Kind of like CC’ing an email, only recipients can see and respond to what you send. You can make public notes too that (you guessed it) the public at large can read and respond to.
Interesting but this just seems like a glorified twitter/email/forum nothing really revolutionary and nothing that I think will really catch on. I think the idea is in the right direction but anything you want to send or share personally with a friend you can just message through aim or msn. As far as the community aspect, maybe if the Pownce system incorporated digg functionality it might really catch on, other than that I will wait for an invite to review it further.
You can check out Pownce by clicking here or visiting http://www.pownce.com
Updates: Please read a follow up and get information on Pownce Invites. Click here!
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I am excited about this news. Hopefully digg sees this post and sends me an invite! I already have a group of friends who want to start using this. Considering we are on digg all the time, I’m sure there will be some kind of integration.