Simon Willison’s Weblog

James B. on Pownce (via) James Bennett has started using Pownce for sort of medium-format blog entries, longer than a tweet but shorter than a blog essay and delivered with a healthy dose of snark. 2nd May 2008, 9:15 pm

PownceFS. Not a joke: it’s a Fuse filesystem (written in Python, using OAuth for authentication) which exposes a directory for each of your friends on Pownce containing the files that they have uploaded. 22nd March 2008, 11:18 pm

Cashing in the Bling. Pownce is open to the public, and Leah has written up some neat friend importing tricks that take advantage of the pre-existing “profile bling” links to profiles on other sites. I hope to do something smart with the profile links on Django People in the future, although I’m not convinced the site would benefit from a “friends” mechanism. 23rd January 2008, 3:17 pm

Interview with Leah Culver: The Making of Pownce. Django + Perlbal + S3 + AIR. 7th July 2007, 10:05 pm