david sidlinger

I was lucky enough to get an invitation to Pownce from Patrick. I like some of the ideas in Pownce (e.g. file sharing, threaded replies), and it will be interesting to see if they can overcome the inertia of twitter to have some success in the micro-blogging space.

One thing that is nice about Pownce is the client they have written using the Adobe AIR runtime, which functions a lot like Twitterific. I did find one bug, though. If you have colons (and maybe other “special” characters) in your password, you get an error when logging in. Probably something to do with URL encoding. If you change your password to alphanumeric characters, it works like a champ.