Pownce wants you to share your location with Fire Eagle, a Yahoo service that just recently got integrated with Pownce. Fire Eagle is a geotagging service, so your content will be tagged with the location. Give it a go if you will, you’ll need to be logged in to get started though.

On a different note, Pownce gives every pro user who signed up during the first year another 3 months for free, as a thank you. Fair enough, but I still feel that the feature boost for non-paying users is more of an issue, and I won’t be going pro again when my subscription runs out, there is just no incentive to convince me otherwise.

Microblogging service Pownce have updated their Pownce Desktop app to 2.0, which means you’ll get embedded media, notification alerts, friend management, and more. Pownce Desktop 2.0 is in alpha, and free to download.

The Pownce developers have also made an iPhone and iPod touch version available from the iTunes App store. Free, of course.

Pownce, the microblogging service you know, have upgraded itself to a filesharing service. They’ve done this by letting you share 100 MB files with the public, should you want to. Previously, the cap was 10 MB, and 100 MB was for pro users only, so I wonder what they’ll do to compensate that feature that some people (me included) paid for? Edit: It’s now 250 MB for pro users.

Anyway, this means that you’ve got yet another way to share files with friends. Might this be another dump for RAR:d porn and overall crappiness for people not wanting to spend money on a VIP account on Rapidshare? I hope not.

Ninja Pink Studios have launched PownceCast, a podcast dedicated to microblogging site Pownce. The first podcast was published this Sunday, April 7, almost 20 minutes on Pownce, features, the best stuff shared, things like that.

The podcast is hosted by Carolyn Sonnek and co-hosted by Kevin Belton. Pink Ninja Studios aren’t exactly new to podcasting, with shows like Tech Snark under their belt.

Best of luck, guys. Pownce is cool, I’m on it, that has to count for something, right?

I think Pownce, the micro-blogging service where you make friends and stuff, is a nice product. I’ve used it for quite some time, and even paid for a pro account. When I did it, it was more as a show of support than anything else, uploading big files - as was the only quirk back then - isn’t something I do very often.

The service is going public and open for all on January 22nd.

I think Pownce will do just fine. It doesn’t compete with Twitter or Jaiku, it’s more like a Tumblr, but less bloggy, if you know what I mean. If you don’t, then ask me for an invite, or anyone else, they’re aplenty.

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