Seriously, did anyone even bother with Pownce?

As a relatively early adopter of Twitter, I am fascinated at how it has apparently reached critical mass and continues to snowball into a networking juggernaut. As to be expected, everybody wants a piece of the action but so far, none has really defined itself as a significant threat to Twitter. Well, except maybe Jaiku after Leo Laporte’s exodus.

Recently though, a lot of hype has been going around in support of Digg Founder and Silcon Valley golden boy Kevin Rose’s startup Pownce. According to the website:

Right now, there are four basic things you can send: messages, links, files, and events.

You might send an event out to a dozen of your friends letting them know you’re hosting a party this Friday. They could easily get the event details you entered, respond with questions or comments and then quickly rsvp.

Say you had a great photo you wanted to share with all of your friends. Just add the file and all of your friends will get it right away. They’ll be able to reply and tell you if it’s cool. You could even post songs you recorded in your home studio to share with your friends.

I’ve only recently been able to fully take Pownce out for a test drive and sans Pownce’s feature that allows users to send updates to a specific group of contacts, I find little to no novelty in Pownce’s touted feature set.

Sure, you can send messages, links, files and events using one convenient interface but it’s not like Twitter doesn’t allow you to do all these innately. I mean, sure, it might take a 3rd party web application (pure volume or even MySpace for sharing songs? rapidshare or DropSend for sharing large files?) to get the job done, but when you take everything into consideration, Pownce’s pretty interface, slightly better usability and what not all fall short of elevating the service as competition in a market segment dominated by twitter.

With that said, and because I am a slut and an attention whore, I am posting the link to my pownce account here so you all can add me and stuff! yay!

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