Posts Tagged with ‘pownce’

Over the week I have been given an opportunity to play with a private beta of a new European startup called Shout’Em. The startup is intended for anyone to create and manage a microblogging community like Twitter or Pownce or any other Twitter clone you have already seen.
The team calls Shout’Em a “Ning for Twitters” and this is the best description probably: same as you create a full-functional social network on Ning, you can create a social network focused strictly [...]

My session at PodCamp3 Boston was called Breaking Into the Conversation, Busting the Clique. It was about how to use social media to its fullest potential for you. Basically, how to be heard online and what social media tools are your best option.
So many people assume that to be a success when using social media, or to have it be productive for them, that they must follow the A-List or only vie for the attention of the top tier early [...]

I had the idea for this post earlier this week when I realized that Twitter's API being broken was causing issues, but we still weren't leaving. Cyndy covered that failure of Twitter users to vote with our feet in her article on Tweeterboard closing, and I touched on it briefly this week when I talked about Twitter telling its own users to access their replies through Summize. In spite of all of this, we aren't leaving - we're creating workarounds.
Why [...]

SXSW begins this coming Friday, 7 March, and it will mark the first anniversary of Twitter's explosion on the scene. This past weekend, Twitter was down again, but this time, it was a planned outage to prep the servers for the predicted hammering of their system when SXSW convenes. Of course, you can always continue on Tweeting from the web or your IM client, but an entire cottage industry has sprung up around Twitter since SXSW '07, giving you tons [...]

Twitter. Pownce, Jaiku. Cromple. When Twitter exploded onto the scene, introducing the concept of easy, social micro blogging, it caught on like wildfire. Since then many competitors have emerged with varying degrees of success. MessageDance (currently in private beta) is the latest in a long line of apps that think they can do it better.
Where Twitter limits what you can post and how long your post can be, MessageDance allows room for photos, videos, and longer messages. This reminds [...]

Anyone who has been keeping track of all the microblogging services now available to internet users (Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Meemi, and the list goes on), probably knows that although having launched last June, Pownce has been in a beta stage for the past seven months, limiting the number of people who sign up only to those who have been invited.
Now, the latest brainchild of Kevin Rose (creator of Digg), has today evolved from an "invite-only" service into a public one. [...]

You know how most things to do with technology are supposedly slanted toward the male segment of the human species?
Yes, I?m sure you?re aware. Aware of that assumption, anyway. And it?s completely understandable as to why exactly people feel that that is the case. After all, one doesn?t typically find airport lounges and cafes populated by a great deal of women wielding laptop computers, clicking away happily, content to spend their waken moments in their own personal virtual worlds. [...]

Everyone’s talking about APIs these days.
The developer world loves ‘em. They eat them up like luscious treats of godly goodness. After they finish their celebratory cheers and siphon those lasts few sips from them party kegs, they plant themselves before their screens and pore over the releases’ particulars to determine how good the kits are (whether they’re offer up enough info to enable some really nifty and powerful third-party stuff, whether they’re “open” enough, etc., etc). And then they [...]

The last few years have been replete with announcements of the birth of new companies, the acquisition/sale of a great many entities, new products and services, and so on and so forth. The Internet’s a-growin’, for sure.
Heck, just today, a decent selection of media companies delivered as a private beta the much-hyped IPTV service, Hulu, for the press and a select few others to play with and spread word about. As expected, they’re talking. Talking quite glowingly about it, really.
And [...]