Kevin Rose’s top secret new project has been unveiled: Pownce. I love the domain name, but I’m not sure about the concept — Twitter plus MSN plus Flickr plus… well, BitTorrent? (I wonder how they’ll handle the RIAA’s inevitable complaints.)
If anyone can launch this kind of thing, though, which requires a large initial install base for it to catch on (because, unlike Twitter, there doesn’t seem a way to make stuff completely public, so you need to have your friends in there already), it’s definitely Kevin Rose.
But what I’m really unsure about is that it’s Twitter with more features. And Twitter’s strength is precisely that it doesn’t have more features. I just don’t see what I could be using Pownce for. (It should interesting as an entry-level groupware solution, though.)
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