Pownce is an Adobe AIR (ex. Adobe Apollo) application from the workshop of Digg’s creator Kevin Rose which lets you group up with friends and send messages, files, links and events to them.

Hey, this is familiar. I know, it’s called instant messaging!

Unfortunately, since Pownce is currently invite-only beta, I can’t test it out to give a proper review, but from what I can gather on the official site, it does not offer anything significantly different from most IM clients today.

There is one great feature, and I’ve been banging my head against the wall (well, not very hard) about it for a long time now, wondering why IM clients don’t make it simpler: instead of being boxed into 1:1 communication (IM) or X:X (chat) or 1:X (Twitter), Pownce offers all of it in one package. Want to send a picture to your family, but not all your friends? Easy: select recepients and send away. Try to do the same thing in any IM client and you’ll see that it usually doesn’t work and/or takes quite a few steps.

As far as other features go, you get themes (big plus in my book, but not a necessary feature by any means), and if you upgrade to a pro account you get rid of the adds and you get to send much bigger files.

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