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Pownce: New Competition?

After taking a much needed vacation I opened up my Gmail for the first time in a week. Deleting 99% percent of the emails was nothing new, but the last email was what I had been hoping for, a Pownce invite. Pownce is trying to bank on the popularity of sites like Twitter (and in some ways even Tumblr) and even applications like Twitterrific.

Before getting into the details on Pownce, the Pownce team already are well known throughout the Internet. The team consists of Kevin Rose (Digg, Revision3), Daniel Burka, Leah Culver (Laptop girl), and Shawn Allen (first time I have heard of him). With big names on board at Pownce will it become as popular as Twitter or previous projects like Digg? Only time will tell (that sounds real cliche).

Pownce works like Twitter in that you can post what you’re doing or post a cool website or whatever you want. Unlike Twitter, Pownce offers four categories of items you can submit, them being a message, a link, a file and an event. Submitting links on Pownce works just like submitting a link when using Tumblr, which has become a favorite thing to do when using Tumblr.

At this point you might be thinking Pownce doesn’t really do anything to make it different from it’s competition, but it does. First off, the ability to submit files is a brand new area in the field of presence websites and could easily become popular among Internet pirates. A “Pro” account is available for those who are heavy on the file submitting.

Twitterrific has become the “killer-app” for Twitter users and Pownce took note. Instead of the Pownce team waiting for a typical user created application, they created their own. Built off of Adobe AIR, the Pownce application is beautiful in both functionality and visual appeal. It works like a charm on my Macbook and Vista machine.

Pownce improves on what the competition has to offer. With a celebrity crew, high interest (hype), and a great visual appeal, Pownce will become as popular if not more popular than Twitter.

BTW- I have five invites to give away. Just be the first (five) to email me at mail@r3fresh.com.

Check out my profile at www.pownce.com/LOR3N