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Posted on Saturday, April 26th, 2008, at 3:16 PM

During my much-needed post-new-website downtime, I made some updates to Ounce.

• I fixed the bug causing some videos to show up as broken images. This is actually a bug in Pownce’s API, which categorizes video content as “photos.”
• YouTube videos are now embedded inline.

• I added support for the new bang-user construct, so links …
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Posted on Saturday, January 26th, 2008, at 2:00 PM

I just updated Ounce again. It now shows inline thumbnails of Flickr photos, just like Pownce! Unfortunately, this seems to only work with Flickr, because the Pownce API doesn’t give out those new thumbnails for any image (yet?). I also added event support, complete with the iCal link, even though I’ve never actually used Pownce events. I guess I’m a …

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Posted on Friday, December 28th, 2007, at 6:26 PM

If you are reading this from my Google Reader shared items, please subscribe to this feed, which I am using instead of shared items now.

Ounce has been updated! Here’s a quick breakdown of the changes:

• Line breaks in notes are now preserved.
• Titles are a little smarter about breaking at the end of sentences when possible.

• The description is dropped if …
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Posted on Saturday, November 10th, 2007, at 3:56 AM

Recently I signed up for Pownce, a micro-blogging site. My intent was to use it as a replacement for Google Reader shared items, since it addresses my two main complaints about them:

1. Restricted to articles from feeds to which I subscribe

1. Cannot include any personal commentary with each link

I tried Pownce out and like it so far, but it has a flaw that …

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