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My Pownce Experience

I was disappointed in Pownce today but look forward to what it will become in the future. I tried it today for the first time and I loved its interface. The interface is user-friendly and the design is beautiful. However, I felt Pownce lacked in functionality.

For some reason I imagined Pownce to behave like Twitter but it was more like a glorified instant messenger. You can send messages using the online interface or the application they provide sort of like Twitter except you can select to send the message publicly, just to your Friends or privately to one of your friends (much like an instant messenger). You can also upload files.

These are nice functions and the eye candy is beautiful. However, you are unable to send messages using your phone like you can in Twitter. You cannot do anything that your day-to-day instant messengers, email and Twitter can’t do. This is disappointing. I expected to be in awe of Pownce but it is just a pretty site.

I know it is still in development so I shouldn’t be too critical. I am crossing my fingers that it will develop into an amazing application.