1 post tagged “micro-blogging”

There's something amiss when one-liners start becoming the only posts I might see on my Pownce feed every other day now. I'm getting pretty frustrated with people trying to integrate all of their micro-blogging profiles to make it easier for themselves to cross-post. The whole point of the various services are that they have unique ways (for the most part) to display and update your information.

Different types of information are starting to cross-pollinate across the following web services and are seriously having me consider pulling myself out of Pownce because of it.

Twitter is the very example of micro-blogging with its simple RSS accessible feeds for its users. It's fairly easy to get involved with others through @replies (where one posts the at symbol before a username somewhere in the post to get the attention of another user) and their simple social networking scheme.

Pownce is a richer Twitter in many ways that notes can be threaded as well as specialized notes that may have events (complete with iCal event formatting), links to other websites, and even the ability to upload files to your profile to share with your friends. The lack of RSS feeds in Pownce may throw off the Twitterholic and tumblr users, but for bloggers and casual Internet people, Pownce may be the choice for them.

I just wish they would all keep themselves seperate and not cross back and forth over each other with websites like helltxt.com and so on.