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Pownce Borrowing from Pidgin?
Digg-founder Kevin Roses’s new IM/whatever service is called “Pownce.” Wonder where the name came front? Try IM/presence tool Pidgin (which isn’t new) which lets you “pounce” on friends who come online. Found Pidgin via the blog of Shankar Ganesh who highlights its presence features.
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I took a quick look at Pownce, and all I could think was “not another social networking site” The ability to send large files, sort of like a private P2P network, is great - if you can get your friends to sign up. I already have so many spread out over all the services, MySpace, Virb, MyBlogLog, et. al, I can’t keep track, and I’m one of the more web savvy in my circle. In the long run, no time is saved because I have to send things multiple times on the different services. The only thing that seems to be ubiquitous, is email. When these other services are that way, then they’ll really be useful.
you don’t think the name came from the cat treats he gives his cat?
Heh - it certainly could have!