Thanks to Ryan Stewart, I got an invite to the long rumored Kevin Rose startup, called Pownce. I have been playing around with it for some time and it is pretty interesting. As per their claim, you can send stuff with Pownce. You could pass on a quick note to your friend or share photos, music, etc. As soon as I checked it out, the first thing that came to my mind was that Pownce is a combination of features in Twitter, Tumblr and Divshare. I just thought that I will share my first thoughts on this new app with TechBizMedia readers.

There are a few basic differences between Pownce and the highly rated Twitter.

• Unlike Twitter, you are not restricted by the number of characters
• You can gtroup friends into sets
• You can send private messages to a group of friends or just one. Unlike twitter, you don’t have to share all your messages in public.
• Unlike Twitter, you can update from IM or Text Messages. You can only use their website or their software (built on AIR framework).

Pownce allows you to post your notes, links and events in public but you cannot share your files to public. You can upload files with a maximum size of 10 MB in the free version. You can also upgrade to a pro version for $20 a year and upload files with sizes upto 100 MB. Any audio file uploaded to Pownce can be played from the website itself, using an embedded player. Pownce is trying to become a one stop shop for many of your social networking tasks. It is meant to replace Twitter, Tumblr and Divshare in your social(networking) life. But I am apprehensive about the usefulness of Pownce in the current Facebook world. They have a long way to go before they become a Twitter/Jaiku killer. I am skeptical about seeing a major shift from Twitter/Jaiku to Pownce because people are slowly getting bored with the process of establishing a network of friends every time a new social network app is released.

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