5 ms·

(Warning: personal interpretation ahead.) Didn't watch the video, but she seems to be complaining about the competition. Competition is good. Competition keep

by rufo 17y ago

(Warning: personal interpretation ahead.) Didn't watch the video, but she seems to be complaining about the competition. Competition is good. Competition keeps you on your toes and validates your ideas. She can complain all she wants that Pownce wasn't in the same space, but it sure looked like a souped-up Twitter to me and a bunch of other people, and they should've responded to that. And the reality is, Pownce wasn't a worthy competitor to Twitter. Twitter started not by being a closed-in environment, but by trying to reach out to every device, website and service you owned. The API and SMS integration were critical for Twitter to get traction in the early days; everyone on a Mac used Twitteriffic, other web services were coming out all the time that talked to Twitter, and the SMS integration helped people stay connected and get used to the idea of Twitter in their pockets. Pownce launched with a decent looking web app and a poor AIR app, back when AIR was the next big thing. Their v1 API took months to come out, and it only allowed for read-only access - their API didn't get up to snuff until eight months after launch, and by then everyone had lost interest.

dmpayton 17y ago
Didn't watch the video, but she seems to be complaining about the competition. You should watch the interview. Or atleast let it play in the background while you do other tasks (like I did). She didn't seem to complain about twitter at all, and expressed that she was surprised about all the Pounce vs. Twitter hype when they launched.
- jmonegro 17y ago
  Or stream the MP3
- rufo 17y ago
  I guess I got that sense from this excerpt from the transcript: I really hated that the comparison to Twitter. I think, if I were to do a new start up or a different company, I would pick it in an area where there wasn’t such good competition, determined competition. I think there is definitely different levels of start ups and Twitter was definitely (laughs) a good start up, and it's really hard to compete or be compared to. I don't feel like Twitter was anywhere close to a sure thing at that point - Twitter was having tons of scaling problems, people weren't sure that 140 characters would be enough (files? links? other metadata?) and there were loads of competitors that were looking like likely takeovers. Pownce would've been in the running had they run with it; I distinctly remember looking at Pownce and really liking it, but the desktop client experience was poor and I pretty much ditched it after the first few days.
rick888 17y ago
Kevin Rose thought that because he had such a large following on Digg that it would just naturally become popular. Here is his other site: http://wefollow.com/ http://wefollow.com/

by rufo 17y ago

dmpayton 17y ago

Didn't watch the video, but she seems to be complaining about the competition. You should watch the interview. Or atleast let it play in the background while you do other tasks (like I did). She didn't seem to complain about twitter at all, and expressed that she was surprised about all the Pounce vs. Twitter hype when they launched.

jmonegro 17y ago
Or stream the MP3
rufo 17y ago
I guess I got that sense from this excerpt from the transcript: I really hated that the comparison to Twitter. I think, if I were to do a new start up or a different company, I would pick it in an area where there wasn’t such good competition, determined competition. I think there is definitely different levels of start ups and Twitter was definitely (laughs) a good start up, and it's really hard to compete or be compared to. I don't feel like Twitter was anywhere close to a sure thing at that point - Twitter was having tons of scaling problems, people weren't sure that 140 characters would be enough (files? links? other metadata?) and there were loads of competitors that were looking like likely takeovers. Pownce would've been in the running had they run with it; I distinctly remember looking at Pownce and really liking it, but the desktop client experience was poor and I pretty much ditched it after the first few days.

rick888 17y ago

Kevin Rose thought that because he had such a large following on Digg that it would just naturally become popular. Here is his other site: http://wefollow.com/ http://wefollow.com/