Pownce is a new social networking application launched by Kevin Rose and his cronies. (Woohoo! Daniel Burka!) Focused around the posting of messages, events, links, and documents, Pownce is like Twitter on steroids. But unlike Twitter, there's no limit on the length of your message. (Theoretically at least; in actuality they're likely using a TEXT type which means the max length is around 65,535 characters.) You also have 3 more types of stuff to spam the world with! You can share your favorite links with your friends, make events (Have not ever made an event on Pownce yet, so that feature is dead as a... dead... thing.), and upload files. (Whoop-dee-do. I can put up my latest design concepts for everyone to see and copy. I really need a WordPress footnotes plugin, because this is getting outrageous.) The Pownce designers also felt compelled to release a virtually worthless desktop application that opens everything in Internet Explorer. If Kevin Rose is so smart, can't he realize that IE is the browser equivalent of the Bubonic Plague? I literally get boils all over my skin whenever I start up the Pownce desktop application and click on a link that opens Internet Explorer. (Believe me, the boils are nasty.) Besides the desktop app and unused features, Pownce has a lot going for it. It seems to be like more localized, centralized, and Kevin Rose-alized version of email that allows you to mass mail stuff with out being called a "spammer." You also have to ability to record your items and set up groups to speed up the sending (Spamming.) process.

The Low-Down

Pownce is a powerful application that has a lot of both useful and worthless features. It is definitely a much smaller community and 50% of its popularity is because some Digg creators worked on it. No matter what your feelings are, this is my Pownce.