A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope - New York Times

A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope - New York Times

By JASON PONTIN
The hottest startup in Silicon Valley - minutely examined by bloggers, panted after by investors - is Pownce, but only a chosen few can try out its Web site.

I learned you can send text messages to individual friends or groups of friends on Pownce as well as post microblogs, or short announcements, to the larger Pownce community. This function is very similar to messaging services like Twitter or Jaiku, and is found on social networks like Facebook and MySpace (although Pownce’s messages cannot, at least for now, be sent to mobile phones).