Kevin Rose, founder of popular news site digg has been working on a new site + application with Leah Culver, Daniel Burka, and Flash/Flex/AIR developer Shawn Allen from Stamen Design. Of notable interest, they offer a desktop application as a companion to the browser-based application. What’s that application built with? Why, Adobe AIR, of course! ;)
What is it?
Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.
Website + App
You can access all of your Pownce notes just on our website or you can download a small program for your computer.The software is available right now for Windows and Mac users and will available for Linux soon too. It takes advantage of a new technology from Adobe called AIR, which is super useful.
I’ve been using the app for a couple of hours now and I’m really liking it. It allows me to send messages, links, files, and event invites to individual friends, my group of friends, or the public. It’s kind of like Twitter + IM + Facebook. Very, very cool.
Pownce is currently in a private alpha that is invitation-only. You can apply to be added to the alpha here.
Very insightful. I am sure Kevin will succeed with this.
Do you have any invite to pass along?
Yeah, in case you have an extra invite laying around…
mike[replace with period]douglas@gmail.com
I’ve got an extra invite to OiNK (high-quality private music torrent tracker), if you’re into that kind of thing.
WE’RE IN UR AIR, TRADIN UR MP3Z
AIR doesn’t need that kind of negative publicity right now. No business model. Seems like an idea with no legs, in a crowded space. This stuff has been done before. Why is this big news, aside from the Kevin Rose factor?
@no digg:
Well, I think it’s a cool app. Why is it news for me? Because they built a cool AIR app. I’ll always promote cool AIR apps on my blog.
Regarding file sharing issues, I don’t agree that such a scenario would cause negative publicity for AIR. There’s nothing unique to AIR vs any other desktop software platform that enables this type of use.
Yes please, if you have any invites, pleasee send one my way.
Anything from these guys you gotta sit up and take notice, I’ve just posted this to my website
http://www.flashculture.com :)
anyone know if the historical chat, files, shares, etc are searchable? It could take over for Campfire then, if I’m reading your description correctly.
it’s a nicely done app–but what I don’t get is why AIR? This app doesn’t do anything except stay independent over the browser. That is, it offers nothing over the web version, in fact, you still have to go to the web for most features. Plus they have an unhandled exception thing pop up if you can’t login–but I’ll give them a break for that as it’s beta.
But seriously, I want the KILLER APP for AIR. I haven’t seen it yet. Finetune is the best contender yet.
why’s there no flashplayer for the free BSD’s ?
petitions go uncommented, requests ignored,
yet adobe doesn’t appear to mind using code
from these OS’ in flashplayer.
no comment from the platform evangelist wrt the BSDs.
ok, well I’m pretty tired of being ignored,
and thanks to the www I can and will have my say.
let’s see now..
every time there’s some discrepancy between
the way mozilla and ie* render a page, there’s
outcry, there’s reams of complaints on the ‘net.
thanks to the ubiquitousness of flash nowadays
it seems there’s barely a single webpage that
renders as it should when you have no flashplayer,
and many many sites that can’t be used at all.
for some of us, that’s made a
complete mockery of open web standards.
they may as well not exist.
really, it’s all nonsense isn’t it ?
“universal desktop”, “platform neutral”,
“OS neutral”, “run anywhere”, etc.
whenever those terms are used
by adobe wrt a flash “solution”, it’s just a lie.
(that’s what you call a statement that’s factually
and deliberately untrue, right ?)
throwing that bone to pcbsd
“here, we’ll let you distribute the linux bin
and try to make it not suck, but that’s the end of it”
has made adobes intentions quite clear,
“go away and be quiet, we’re not interested.”
add that to the myraid requests, pleading,
thousands of sigs on the petitions and
I can’t see how that can be interpreted any
other way, please, *PLEASE* correct me if I’m wrong.
I’ll note again that adobe is not averse to using
code from the *bsd’s, but doesn’t even bother to
acknowledge that they are actively developed,
useful desktop platforms and really deserve to
be able to play on the www the same as everybody
else.
it’s a shame that I’m having to resort to attempt
to ambush you on your blog, but it seems the
flash request form and petitions go directly
to /dev/null if you’re running *bsd,
not even an ack.
this sorry state of affairs is even mentioned
on the wikipedia flashplayer page, so it’s
surely not the case that you’ve never heard
of the situation you’ve inflicted on us before.
any comments ?
anything at all ?
feel free to cherrypick!
hello ?
I typed the previous comment and just posted it,
without proofreading or spell checking, so it
may come across a little more antagonistic than
was intended.
( this situation has really got under my skin )
I would however appreciate some comment,
if you have any, on this.
( no comments on the grammar or spellchecking
though please, I’m aware that it may read
as an incoherent rant. )
many thanks.
-paul
I signed up for Pownce last night, just to check it out and see how it worked. When I went to install the software thought, I noticed in the install that the application has “unrestricted access” to my entire system. Nor does the install ask for my user/pass to continue. In fact, here’s the the app says at install:
“System Access: UNRESTRICTED
This application may access your file system and the internet, which may put your computer at risk.”
Not being a programmer type, this worries me, and without the technical background to determine the level of threat to my system (i.e., could this app be a back door into my otherwise fairly secure Mac?) I’m VERY hesitant to install it.
Twitterific does not seem to pose the same risk. Of course, Twitterific also doesn’t move files. But then, I’ve always got ftp, chat and skype.
Does anyone know if there’s any credibility to my worries, or am I just being ignorant? Either way, since this doesn’t seem to offer anything new except a security risk, I think I’m just going to stay away from this one until I learn more one way or the other.
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