Previewing Pownce
I didn’t really even want to be on Facebook, Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn et al (peer pressure). But now I'm also a member of Pownce, the social-networking and file-sharing service launched by Digg.com founder Kevin Rose.
I received an invitation from a friend and fellow tech policy writer and couldn’t resist the chance to be among the first to test it out. The site, whose catchphrase is "send stuff to your friends," is in its beta phase and is expected to launch publicly in September.
According to Pownce's home page, the new venture is "brought to you by a bunch of geeks who were frustrated trying to send stuff from one cube to another." So, what can you send? Messages, links, files and events.
The interface is clean and simple, which is a delight after being inundated with dizzying, noise-making, content-heavy MySpace pages (you know who you are). The downside is that the page templates are limited and the ability to customize is pretty minimal.
Overall, it makes for an easy profile-building process, but I haven’t really gotten an answer to my big question. "Now what?"
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