What’s Pownce?
July 13, 2007
Three popular social/micro blogging apps are: Twitter, Jaiku and newly launched Pownce - all addictive platforms for sharing presence:
- what I’m doing
- observations
- links to useful resources
Twitter is simple to post and view messages via Web browser, SMS, IM, client app, widget.
Jaiku expands on the idea and allows you to aggregate RSS feeds and create channels.
Pownce allows you to create groups of friends and push a variety of media to select users depending on the relationship. Imaging sharing audio files privately with select people you know will appreciate it. Pownce definitely takes the best ideas of the existing applications and builds upon them.
Personally, I find it easiest to use Twitter and find people I want to follow or interact with. Jaiku and Pownce are more restrictive in that sense. Pownce (in beta) raised the bar in service offerings.
Will I switch? It’s to early to say. Pownce needs to come out of beta and demonstrate what type of mobile capability they’ll have. I love Jaiku, but Twitter is so darn easy to use. Plus there’s the dilemma of abandoning the current platforms after time spent building relationships there. We need to see what Twitter and Jaiku will do to upgrade and compete.”
Related articles:
Promote your personal brand with Twitter, Tumblr and Jaiku
Leo Laporte does a great explanation on the Net@Night podcast episode 27. (Starts at 24 minutes in)
Feedburner Pro Stats and MyBrand Are Now Free Services
July 3, 2007
Just a month ago, Google acquired Feedburner, making many in the blogosphere happy since it almost ensures this great service will remain for some time to come.
Per the Feedburner blog: “Beginning today, two of FeedBurner’s previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free.”
Feedburner’s basic services were great for providing a consolidated feed, regardless of flavor (RSS, Atom, etc.) TotalStats provides a bit more in-depth reporting on exactly who is using the feed and how it is being read.
Feedburner’s MyBrand allows you to use your own domain name as the feed url in place of this standard format: http://feeds.feedburner.com/myfeedname
Thanks Google!
