The micro-blogging service Pownce, which was started by Digg's Kevin Rose back in June, has quietly rolled out a mobile version of the site, Wired noticed.
Pownce works roughly along the lines of Twitter but with more of an emphasis on sharing messages, links, files and events. Twitter is only text-based at the moment, so there are a bunch of new services that are trying to improve on the idea.
Pownce is very well executed but as all these tools are quite time-consuming and require users to cultivate a critical mass of friends, they do face a challenge in trying to inspire a mass migration.
There were a few teething troubles yesterday, but adding a mobile-friendly feature will help the site size up against Twitter even though this is only a mobile version of the site and not SMS support, a la Twitter.
That said, Pownce users are likely to be pretty early adopting and (probably) have phones with a meaty web connection service, in which case posting through their mobile web browser would be fine.
Anyone else on Pownce?
Source: Wired
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