The Pownce Blog

We’ve just released a bunch of new stuff today to make Pownce even better. There are a number of changes behind the scenes to help the site run faster as well as some sweet new things you can definitely see.

Upcoming Event Notifications
In the right column of your homepage, you’ll now see the next five upcoming events you’ve been sent. It’s a handy way to make sure you don’t miss something. We might make this more sophisticated in the future, but we wanted to get a basic version out first to see how it works in the real world.

Inline Video Playback & Inline Image Previews
We’re now automagically embedding Youtube, Google, Metacafe, Revver, Vimeo, and other videos into your notes. Just link to the page where the video is and the player with appear.

Like the videos, we’re automatically displaying image thumbnails when you link to images from services we support. Right now, Zooomr images are displayed in your notes, but we hope support more services (such as Photobucket and Flickr) in the future.

Display Your Social Networks & Links
At lot of people have social networks online other than Pownce. Now, you can display them on your profile, so people can find you elsewhere too. We’ve got most of the major networks (Facebook, Myspace, Last.fm, and others) supported, so go show your friends where to find you. You can also show your instant messaging IDs and link to your blog or website.

New Preferences Settings
Now you can better customize your Pownce. Some big feature requests have been addressed. You can now open links in a new window by default! You can also set your default note view to something other than ‘notes & replies’, and you can select whom you’re note Tired of seeing all replies displayed inline? No worries, you can set it to just ‘notes’. And finally, you can specify whom notes should go to by default (such as your ‘best friends’ or ‘coworkers’ set).

We hope you all like the new features and we hope you’re having fun sending stuff to your friends!