by Calvin Robinson on December 2, 2008.

It’s 5 months since I wrote my post about how identi.ca is better than twitter. I still believe this, not a lot on that side has changed. Identi.ca still has the early adopter, techy community. Where as Twitter is more a mainstream site now.

One thing that really hasn’t changed since then, is this promise of cross-platform compatibility. Identi.ca have done all they can on this front – the laconi.ca platform couldn’t be more open, or more compatible with Twitter. Twitter on the other hand, don’t seem interested. Not only that,  but half the clients out there are Twitter-only.

I mean come on, identi.ca uses the same API as Twitter, it’s not hard to get your client working with identi.ca too.

Twhirl have done a good job. It’s just a shame Adobe Air is still a little buggy in Linux. No doubt when that’s ironed out, Twhirl will have a lot more users. The other thing is that Twhirl seems to be being left behind, feature-wise. Twitter Deck for e.g. is brilliant, with its groups, and multiple monitoring boxes, for TwitScoop, 12seconds etc.

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by Calvin Robinson on December 1, 2008.

I think we all saw this one coming. Only the other morning, I was asking myself “Do I really need Pownce?”. It wasn’t out of dislike, I was honestly wondering do I actually use the site.

A handful of my friends are over at Pownce – the kind of people that aren’t much into the web scene, and just signed up so we could transfer files easily. But this didn’t last long, when we discovered it was easier to just use msn (as usual) or the new, sexy, dropbox.

Pownce never really did take off. It didn’t have the grand opening, it practically sneaked out of closed-beta. This of course, was be design. But I don’t believe it worked in their favour.

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