Comments on: Pownce Invites For Sale On eBay

By: Quoi9 | InviteShare : le partage reste toujours efficace

Quoi9 | InviteShare : le partage reste toujours efficace — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:10:07 +0000

[...] Les invitations aux versions beta des nouveaux services web peuvent s’avérer si difficiles à obtenir que l’on en trouve parfois en ventes sur eBay comme récemment avec des invitations pour le beta privé de Pownce. [...]

By: bibom » Blog Archive » TechCrunch Acquires InviteShare

bibom » Blog Archive » TechCrunch Acquires InviteShare — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:05:41 +0000

[...] Getting invitations to private betas can be a frustrating experience for early adopters. If you don’t know someone who’s already in the beta it could end up being a very long wait. Over the last few years invitations for some betas were so hard to get that they ended up for sale on eBay - Gmail is the most famous example but recently Pownce invites were also put up for sale. [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » TechCrunch acquiert InviteShare

TechCrunch en français » TechCrunch acquiert InviteShare — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:14:10 +0000

[...] Obtenir des invitations à des services en mode privés peut être une expérience frustrante si vous êtes un utilisateur curieux. Si vous ne connaissez personne qui est déjà en train de tester le produit vous devrez vous armez de patience. Sur ces dernières années les invitations aux versions beta des nouveaux services web peut s’avérer si difficiles à obtenir que l’on en trouve parfois en ventes sur eBay – Gmail est l’application la plus populaire dans ce sens mais récemment des invitations sur Pownce ont également été mises en ventes. [...]

By: Just a random blog !

Just a random blog ! — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:16:09 +0000

[...] products can count on invitations being sold on eBay - something we saw with Gmail in 2004 and more recently with [...]

By: Pradeep Sethi's Blog

Pradeep Sethi's Blog — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:39:11 +0000

Pownce Invites available on eBay or Here…

Digg.com founder Kevin Rose’s new startup Pownce is in private beta right now. Invites for Pownce are available for sale on eBay. I too have few invites available. Post your info here and you can get one for free.
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By: Dawn

Dawn — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:00:53 +0000

I have invites.. emial me at Dawn[at]owar.com

By: Lacey

Lacey — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:44:46 +0000

i have a few pownce invites. e-mail me at lacey at kfcomm dot com

By: george

george — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:27:38 +0000

I have some invites. pownce at dirtygreek dot org

By: david a

david a — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:23:06 +0000

If anyone’s got a pownce invite, please email me one @ damodt@gmail.com

Thanks

By: Pownce, mensajería instantánea basada en Adobe Air :

Pownce, mensajería instantánea basada en Adobe Air : — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:53:39 +0000

[...] GPL (Jabber), Pownce ya ha causado cierta sensación (las invitaciones han comenzado a surgir a la venta en ebay). Al estilo de Facebook, puedes crear tu comunidad en la que se comparten mensajes, ficheros [...]

By: PR Crap

PR Crap — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:28:04 +0000

I see several Buy-it-now at $2.50 and nobody’s buying. Where’s the news here? If I put crap for sale on eBay, will I make it in Techcrunch too?

There is NO market of Pownce accounts on eBay. That’s the news in case someone cares.

Please…. Don’t… I mean do not even think about comparing the fever GMail caused in people dying to get an account with Pownce.

By: sputnick

sputnick — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:09:56 +0000

Oh man those cats are so cute. Duncan, can you run more Pownce stories please, if it involves excessively cute cats.

By: Manfrys (beta)

Manfrys (beta) — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:46:53 +0000

Vendo inviti ……

A dire il vero non saprei compre prenderla una notizia così, ovvero se ho perso (insieme a tutti gli scatenati twitters) una ventina di euro o sostenere che gli italiani sono più buoni, più sociali. In una mattina come l’altr…

By: joe

joe — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:52:46 +0000

You can get invites here http://revision3.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7287

By: markus941

markus941 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:45:41 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know it was such a hot commodity.

Alright then, I’ll throw in a pownce invite alongside a USB humping dog for the winner of the Googlebot competition. Actually, maybe I’ll just give them away to anyone who enters.

I wonder what the max price for an invite will be. Any guesses?

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:53:58 +0000

Interesting to see if the market for Pownce takes off at all - at this point I don’t think there is the same sort of hype as for GMail.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:30:27 +0000

It is not about anything coming up on ebay for sale..But anything ridiculous that comes up on sale gets hyped up in Techcrunch also. Just sometime back we had this German Twitter clone on ebay blown up here..

By: Tech Tools

Tech Tools — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:42:16 +0000

Interesting marketing technique.

By: Alan Lewis

Alan Lewis — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:19:35 +0000

Trevor - thanks for the link, we raised 251 dollars for charity with the auction of the first San Dimas beta test invite. Of course invitations to betas are only valuable if they are scarce. As this thread proves, Pownce invites are anything but.

-Alan

By: ged

ged — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:24:35 +0000

I have three more invites that can give anybody for free: http://renaissancechambara.com.....ik-e-post/

By: trevor ginn

trevor ginn — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:27:00 +0000

eBay have actually been auctioning the opportunity to be the first to beta test their San dimas desktop application

see http://blogs.ebay.com/projects.....Z226306010

By: humbug

humbug — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:10:54 +0000

gmail was only marginally innovative at the time. They mostly copied Oddpost, which had been around for a lot longer.

By: bdb

bdb — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:18:37 +0000

@Jay (let’s not get into pronunciation, it is meaningless; but, here’s a hint: a “buddy pounce” is common in IM)

1)Not really a twitter copy, but certainly “inspired by twitter”. Twitter allows posts thru SMS/IM/Email, while pownce does not, only thru the pownce platform (web or desktop) so it is “closed loop”. Pownce allows for sending files up to 100MB, twitter doesn’t. Both have user pages and RSS syndication. Pownce has a revenue strategy from day one: embedded adds and Pro accts.

2) While I kind of agree, twitter has helped many bloggers increase their reach and strengthen their relationships with their readers. However, used within certain groups of friends, it is also an easy way to keep *everyone* in the loop (eg. activity coordination).

3) Agreed, but all the kiddies on digg love him

4) Sharing stuff isn’t innovative, but people really like to share stuff (please don’t ask why). Figuring out how to share stuff in the best way will bring users, and advertisers with cash in hand. Both pownce and twitter are experiments, but one, both or something similar will make it finacially.

5) Umm…no comment

6) This will not be adwords based, and will probably involve development of a more custom ad matching/delivery platform (specific to the “personalities” of the groups that form and evolve).

I think of pownce as a niche social network.

By: louis

louis — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:38:04 +0000

I have a few invites, if anyone wants one ..email me - louis(at) hotspotimports.com

By: Jay (living in First Life)

Jay (living in First Life) — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:33:05 +0000

How does one pronounce Pownce? What is the point of Pownce? Pownce is no Gmail.

Let’s think about this for a second:

1. Pownce is a copy of Twitter.

2. Twitter is a purely Echosphere phenomenon that’s not particularly compelling. Microblogging is not a method for delivering any sort of interesting news, thoughts, or information. All it can do is deliver bite-sized blurbs of the over-inflated egos of people like Scoble, Calcanis, etc.

3. Kevin Rose has yet to prove that he has any real focus. Why on earth is he running 3 companies at the same time? Is Digg doomed for failure? Is he hedging his bets? That “kid” surely hasn’t made $60 MM in 18 months - we all know that.

4. Blogging may have become mainstream and for good reason, but I find it hard to imagine why “sharing stuff with people” is something that is particularly innovative or useful. We already have AIM/MSN/Yahoo Messenger, Gmail/Yahoo Mail, and tons of other services that allow us to store/send large files. We also have tons of other services which allow us to share information online - YouTube, et. al.

5. P2P is overrated.

6. Clever marketing works for a bit but you have to have a way to monetize it. AdSense isn’t even going to cover bandwidth/hardware costs with Pownce.