I definetly think that there should be a MySpace style groups system on Pownce.
I think it should be easy to use, for example you could have a group called "Digg Fans", which you would access at www.pownce.com/g/DiggFans. Groups could be publicly joinable, or the appointed group admins could select who got to join. When posting a note, file or link, you can choose to send it to the group.
Pownce needs SMS to really take advantage of its grouping capabilities.
As a college student, I would like to be able to track house parties with friends. If 30 people are sharing Pownce notes with each other on a Friday or Saturday night, there will never be a slow night. Once a party gets broken up or starts winding down, Pownce comes to the rescue.
I wish that Pownce had an option to send notes to a temporary or "on the fly" set. Some times I want to send notes to a few people but not to make a permanent set for that group of friends friends.
I've been using Pownce for a while now and have noticed that I've missed some messages from friends who have included me in a direct message or group message. I would love if I could enable email notifications for direct messages and group messages. And I know there are "plain message" notifications, but I don't use that simply because it fills my inbox with too many messages. Let me know if this is a possibility. Thanks!
This feels like an obvious idea: Can I now, or will I be able in the future, to filter notes by sets? So instead of "All notes and replies" or a particular type of note, how about "All notes in set -y-"?
So that with a click I can see just work-related notes & replies, just family notes & replies, or quickly filter out notes & replies by people I've never met by using my "people I actually know in life" set?
Which is to say: a major differentiating feature of Pownce over other services is that I can communicate with specifically defined groups of people, and this feature should be two-way; I should be able not only to filter who I am sending to, but filter who I am receiving from, at any given moment.