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Introduction: Pownce is a new social messaging application competing micromessage to micromessage with the likes of Twitter and Jaiku. Still in closed beta, Pownce has generously shared some of what they've learned so far. Like going to a barrel tasting of a young wine and then tasting the same wine after some aging, I think what will be really interesting is to follow Pownce and compare the Pownce of today with the Pownce of tomorrow, after a few years spent in the barrel. What lessons lie in wait for Pownce as they grow? Site: http://www.pownce.com Information Sources Pownce Lessons Learned - FOWA 2007 Scoble on Twitter vs Pownce Founder Leah Culver's Blog The Platform Python Django for the website framework Amazon's S3 for file storage. Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) for desktop application Memcached Available on Facebook Timeplot for charts and graphs. The Stats Developed in 4 months and went to an invite-only launch in June. Beg


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