5 features that would make Pownce kick even more ass

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Pownce is amazing. It combines email, blogging, file sharing, calendar sharing, and the good parts of myspace or facebook. Pownce gives you the ability to send stuff to all your contacts, certain groups of contacts or individuals. To take full advantage of its coolness you should download the Adobe AIR based desktop software. It turns Pownce into a sleek, AIM-like console.

As fantastic as it is, the following features would make Pownce kick even more ass:

1. Embedded multimedia files. Sending files is great but imagine being able to view certain files directly in the Pownce console. A thumbnail of a received image file should be displayed. Or an integrated music player could be embedded when an audio file is sent. What if you could embed a youtube video? Awesomeness ensues. That’s what.

2. Choose which groups are displayed. There are always those people who feel compelled to send too much, too often. Maybe they’ll send out a new survey everyday, or post that picture of the kitten sniper. The Pownce console could have a drop down menu that allows you to choose which group of people could populate your console messages. Ah, catharsis.

3. Combine two or more accounts. Let’s say you don’t want all your friends to know about your blog and you don’t want your blog readers (reader) to know about your personal life. You want to keep in contact with both but you don’t want to log in and out of different Pownce accounts. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could manage multiple accounts in one console? Yes, it would.

4. Integrated, real-time chat. Sure, you could send private messages but it might be better if something like google talk was integrated into the console. Maybe.

5. iPhone support. If Apple and Adobe would get their act together and port the AIR platform over to the iPhone, Pownce would take over the world. Seriously.

You can download Adobe AIR and Pownce here.
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