I was recently invited to use Kevin Rose’s new web creation Pownce. This comes under the heading of doing the same thing as other people, just better. I’ve been familiar with similar services Twitter and Jaiku for awhile now. I’ve never signed up for a Twitter account, but I’m a current Jaiku user. I’ll have to say that Pownce is probably my favorite of the bunch. It’s still in testing stages, but it has been quite fun. Pownce is a service that allows you to create a mini-blog, send messages, files, and event requests to friends. I’ve been on Pownce for a couple days now and I have over 60 friends. I find it very interesting to sit back and read what they have to say. One of the more interesting things about Pownce is that they utilize Adobe’s Runtime Environment. This allows you to view your Pownce messages on the desktop. The AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is cross-platform thereby allowing any OS to run it. The interface of Pownce is also really nice. It’s got an excellent layout and some fun themes to choose from.

Note: I’ve tried to install the Pownce application on my Windows and Mac computers and I can’t get it to work on either.

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