DISQUS

Alisha · 10 months ago

I had looked at schmownce. The name of a service is enough for me not to use something. And schmownce just doesn't do it for me, I guess. =)

I just want to use something that offers the Pownce community and features, not something trying to be Pownce and schmownce is just too much of a reminder and weird name.

Have you heard of Topixz (www.topixz.com)? I've been using Topixz, which for me is the perfect replacement for Pownce. It's still in beta right now, but I plan on sticking with it, along with a number of other former Pownce users.

Ed Shaz/NextInstinct · 10 months ago

What gap?

matsie · 10 months ago

What about Topixz.com? It's still in private beta but it's pretty darn good and made by an old Pownce user. Has a nice community of old Pownce users in it, too.

Louis Gray · 10 months ago

The feature gap. Post a file or event on Twitter. I'll wait for your link. :-)

Bill Strathearn · 10 months ago

If Pownce died due to a lack of community adoption, I don't see what chance a brand new service with an equivalent feature set has of surviving.

Phil Glockner · 10 months ago

http://tweetree.com does a good job of giving an enhanced view of your standard Twitter activity. It even grabs your theme to make you feel more at home!

che2on · 10 months ago

good one! nice to read

che2on · 10 months ago

good one! nice to read

Ontario Emperor · 10 months ago

I really hope Schmownce doesn't take off. If it does, we'll start seeing services with names like Snitter (or a ruder version thereof), Trollkut, and Jaikwho?

Louis Gray · 10 months ago

Emperor, Schmemperor

coldbrew · 10 months ago

No mention of Jaiku? What is going to happen to all these me-too products when Jaiku's source is released for GAE? Twitter has mind share and nothing else stands a chance without a large community. There is no business without scale, and this service, among many, solves nothing.

Charles · 10 months ago

They have a long lead to catch up with... Twitter has gained massive user adoption in the past 6 months.

In the end there is only room for a small number of these networks to capture almost all the traffic. Take search for example, Google represents 90% of search traffic to Feedbo.com.

There is a good chance micro blogging will end up the same way... 1 massive player with many a distant second.

ajitfoldsfive · 10 months ago

Hi guys, I'm one of the developers of Schmownce. Thanks for writing the article, Louis. While I appreciate all the opinions displayed here (and I know that it's always the cynics who are more vocal) I just wanted to weigh in. We loved Pownce, and we were sad to see it go. We are sure there were other factors at play besides "lack of community adoption" that led to their demise, but we wish their team and the best of luck in the future. We created Schmownce as a way to keep things going. It's not perfect yet, as we only had a short time to develop it, but with support and a growing community, we think it can become very cool. This is a public service for us to the community that loved Pownce, nothng more. As you can see, we don't have paid accounts, and we don't have ads on the site. It's a true service launched to keep the spirit alive. This should also be mentioned: we are in no way trying to compete with Twitter. We love Twitter and all of us at our company use the hell out of Twitter. I think these couple articles may help: http://bit.ly/1ubSxD, http://bit.ly/2TwxPB, and http://schmownce.com/about. Cheers, and best of luck to you all navigating that confusing waters that is social media. :)

michael silverton · 10 months ago

Mandatory import of old Pownce XML complete, just to see how it works. All messages seem to have imported, but no friends. Frankly, if I had a choice of one or the other for social network portability, I'd pick taking all my friends along over my own archived blather. #justsayin

ajitfoldsfive · 10 months ago

was there a Pownce friends export? if so, send it to us and we'll make an importer for you! we can only import what they gave us, guy.