Pownce!

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Leah, Kevin, Shawn and I finally have Pownce ready for a limited initial release! I won't go into a ton of detail about what we've created other than to say I'm super excited about it and there's lots of info over on the Pownce site.

We're very excited to get real people sending real stuff to each other and to see how they use the service. At least for the moment, we're going to let people in slowly so that we can tweak things and fix any bugs. It could be considered a public beta (except we shied away from labeling it beta since that's so cliched and meaningless). So, sign up with your email address on the homepage and we'll get you in as soon as we can so you can start using it and give us your feedback.

Big thanks to our fantastic alpha testers who reported tons of bugs and made loads of great suggestions. And, thanks to all the others involved for their hard work (especially Leah... she's the one full-time person on this!).

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alex -

http://www.alexrybicki.com

grats man. i hope it works out for your guys. looks like a simple and elegant alternative to starting a blog just for your friends.

Jeff Smith -

http://from-away.net

I can see this catching on very quickly and unseating some of the other popular social net./communication tools that have popped up recently.

Signed up for an invite, can't wait to give it a try.

Rob Goodlatte -

http://robgoodlatte.com

The design is gorgeous. Love the color palette, logo type, and the icons. It has a new web look without looking cliche at all. Congrats on a job well done.

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So... can you hook me up with an invite?!
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Daniel Swiecki -

http://swieckiblog.com/

It is really a looker Daniel, congratulations on the superb design!

Which one of you was the one who coded the desktop client?

Brian Smith -

http://www.homelessbrian.com/blog

Pownce looks amazing! I cant wait to get on myself. Hopefully invites go out soon.

Mathew -

http://hellaboss.com

I said when I saw this, "finally, Twitter with a purpose!". Can't wait to get an invite to try it out to see if my comment was correct.

Daniel Burka -

Thanks everyone for your comments. Hopefully we'll send out more invites soon. There's some bug fixing to do and a couple of issues to deal with first.

Daniel Swiecki asked above who developed the desktop app. That was coded by Shawn Allen.

Greg -

http://www.airbagindustries.com

Daniel, very nice work on Pounce, all of it. I can't wait to see more of your work.

design for myspace -

http://www.designog.com

Awesome I'm excited to try pownce out. Maybe I can start designing for pownce instead of myspace.

Arthur -

Hello, will be great to get invitation. Thks in advance!

Schuyler -

http://ndemag.com

Looks excellent, can't wait to see how it develops. Also, to avoid posting in multiple blog posts, long live PNGs! I too am pretty excited at that development.

Hope this little note finds you well, you're doing exciting work. Glad I found your blog, time to start reading back...

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My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm the director of design with a startup called Tiny Speck and for several years I was the creative director at Digg. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

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