I’ve been Pownce’d

OK boys and girls I’ve joined YET ANOTHER social network – this one is more along the lines of Twitter and Jaiku than Facebook and My Space though.

I’ve just recieved an invite to Pownce, the new service by Digg guy Kevin Rose and other VERY talented people – it basically lets you post comments, files, photos, links etc and have them seen by friends and the public (if you want).

It’s half a Tumblog and half Jaiku – it lets you add friends by searching for them or inviting them (limited invites at the moment as it is a closed system still) or, in a similar way to Twitter – letting you have fans that have befriended you or friends you’ve befriended back.

The About us page described the system as “a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install our lightweight desktop software that lets you get out of the browser.”

The desktop software is VERY cool and does give this site one thing over and above the other services – yes they have Desktop apps available but not as good, and natively supported as this one.

What I can do with the system is fairly limited at  moment because I don’t have any friends – if you have a Pownce account feel free to add me to your friends and I’ll add you back.

I normally like to give my invites to things like this out fairly freely to blog readers but as I’ve only got six I’m going to need to be a bit more selective.

The site is fantastic, it’s intutive, attractive and builds on services like Twitter and Jaiku perfectly by taking what they do best, enhancing it and adding extra features.

I’m looking forward to testing it properly when I’ve got a few friends on the site but as I don’t have that many friends in the first place – who knows.

To be hones tthough – I’m not sure I need another site like this one – I’m only updating my blog once or twice a week at the moment, I’m only writing on Jaiku or Twitter every now and then and my Tubmlog is sustained almost completely by feeds from everything else.

I haven’t updated flickr properly in weeks and haven’t put a new video on You Tube in ages – the only thing I’ve updated is the Ryan is… section of my Facebook profile.

So do I have time for another social network? I don’t know but I know I do have time and use for a service that lets me send relatively large files to my friends – that is useful and that’s something Pownce can handle.

I’ll invite the first two people with a blog I can read to post – I’ll be your friend.