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Has Pownce gone Napster?

Written on May 8, 2008 – 8:32 pm
David Petherick, Next Web WebTipr United Kingdom

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Pownce, the “Send stuff to your friends” application and web service, announced some new features late yesterday, and most of the world has woken up to these today.

The official blog announcement from Pownce is brief, and says little more than “Tonight we launched the new feature of sharing files to the public… In addition, we’re happy to announce that we’ve increased the base file size limit for all Powncers from 10MB to 100MB!”

So you can share files not just with your fans and friends, but with everyone - and you can upload 100Mb of files - room enough for a few videos and audio files, and Pro members have a tidy 250Mb of space. Nice. And I think Pownce have simplified the thrust of their offering by saying “we let you share stuff with your friends”. (more…)

file sharing, mpaa, Pownce, twitter

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Interview with Raymond O’Hare, Regional Director, Microsoft Scotland

Written on April 25, 2008 – 11:57 am
David Petherick, Next Web WebTipr United Kingdom

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CTO Amazon Werner Vogels about the Kindle

Written on April 4, 2008 – 3:41 pm
David Petherick, Next Web WebTipr United Kingdom

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Robert Scoble at The Next Web, Amsterdam

Written on April 4, 2008 – 10:42 am
David Petherick, Next Web WebTipr United Kingdom

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121 Chat: Steve Garnett @ Salesforce.com

Written on March 9, 2008 – 10:37 pm
David Petherick, Next Web WebTipr United Kingdom

At London’s startupcamp.org, I had the opportunity for a one-to one chat with Steve Garnett, Chairman of Salesforce.com for Europe, Middle East & Africa, and formerly with Oracle and Siebel Systems, and asked him about what Salesforce has planned to further integrate and enhance SaaS (Software as a Service), from the perspective of a web 2.0 entrepreneur.

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Twitter Balloon Badge visualizes Tweets

Written on January 27, 2008 – 5:57 pm
David Petherick, Next Web WebTipr United Kingdom

A wonderful Twitter update badge you can customize to your heart’s delight and place on your blog, Facebook, MySpace… the slight drawback is that the site is almost entirely in Japanese, but don’t worry, I’ve found the English interface so you can make your own Twitter Balloon.

The important element that I love is the ability to go back and forward in time to follow the history of one’s twitterings, or tweets, so one can follow a conversation or thread of insights and ideas. These may admittedly be somewhat disjointed, but more interesting that simply having the ‘latest’ information presented. I can see an nice extension of this with a tweet balloon gallery, or even a mashup where those referenced by one user’s conversation can be linked to dynamically, or to follow how a topic or issue is being discussed.

Here’s one I created for my friend Boris:

Do your own thing at Korelab’s English Twitter Balloon Creation Page.

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