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Too Little, Too Late for Pownce
By Mark Evans | January 22, 2008
According to TechCrunch, Pownce - the Twitter-like service created by Digg Domo Kevin Rose, is introducing some new features such as importing contacts from online e-mail services (a data portability trick being used a lot these days).
But the question is whether it’s too little too late. Pownce may be a good idea but it appears to be one of the cool services that missed the mark. Look at this Compete.com chart (below) looking at traffic between the red-hot Twitter and Pownce. Twitter’s on the rise, while Pownce is on the decline.
My friend, Mathew Ingram, suggests Pownce’s future could lie in a deal with Twitter that would combine Pownce’s best feature - sharing files with friends - with Twitter’s popular messaging services. And as Allen Stern points out, Pownce has a basic business model - something Twitter hasn’t created yet.
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