Last night the invitation elves broke into my email and left me 6 more invites for pownce! Although I am a fan of inviteshare I am going to make some of them available here. Just leave a comment and I’ll get them out asap. I will update the post when they are gone. See you on pownce.

I was just over @ scobleizer and watched a demo of a new geo-presence service called plazes.com. It looked cool so I checked it out. The service allows you to publish your current location or ‘plaze’ and also find the ‘plazes’ of your friends. There is a desktop app available for both Mac and PC along with an SMS service that allows you to update from your mobile. They also offer a flash widget for placing on your Facebook profile or your blog to show people where you are. On the face of it this seem interesting but as with everything online the potential for invasion of privacy abounds. Plazes does allow you to limit if your current ‘plaze’ is available only to friends or to the general public. You can see the widget by clicking on the navigation link above.

Dave Winer is pointing to a post by Todd Cochrane at Geek News Central regarding Podshow. The folks over at Podshow are in the midst of launching their service and it seems a few things may need to be explained, Primarily why is Podshow re-processing the RSS feeds of podcasts that are not part of the Podshow network? The copyright information in Morning Coffee Notes feed [link to RSS] is being removed from the Podshow version [link to RSS]. Why are they not just redirecting their feed URI or just linking to the original podcast’s feed?

There were also complaints that it was difficult to get to the original homepage via the Podshow listing , but I found my way out with little trouble.

Podshow is in the middle of the launch, coming online in bits and pieces and I’m sure they will iron out many issues in the coming days/weeks. But the RSS feed processing seems pretty ingrained into their service and I think that an explanation to the Blog/Podosphere is in order.

David over at Misguided Thoughts blessed me with a Writely invite. I dropped him a note after I read his post. All he asked is that I extend the same offer to others, which I am. So, if you need an invite to Writely just drop me a note.

I haven’t been able to reach feedlounge.com all day. Are they down?