<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging">Microblogging</a> is becoming more and more used by people in this new <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Web">Social Web</a>. <a href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a> arrived and made millions of fans. It was such a success they had <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000838.html">problems escalating</a>. Taking advantage of that downtimes, <a href="http://www.jaiku.com">Jaiku</a> got many users to switch over to them, giving them more features. <span class="caps">IMO</span>, jaiku is my personal aggregator, not a microblogging service. I sticked to twitter, but had its feed in my jaiku webpage. Only if the feed was updated more frequently&#8230;</p>

<p>Some time ago Kevin Rose, the kid from <a href="http://www.digg.com">Digg</a>, and his team (including <a href="http://pownce.com/leahculver/">my dream girl</a>) came up with this microblogging system with Messages, Files, Links and Events that I find very interesting. Only one disadvantage: It only works from the web or the <span class="caps">AIR</span> app that cannot be minimized to tray. Thankfully <a href="http://blog.pownce.com/2007/07/25/coming-soon-the-pownce-public-api/">they are getting a public <span class="caps">API</span> avaiable soon</a>. In the meanwhile, some guys <a href="http://phaedo.cx/archives/2007/07/17/pypownce-project-on-google-code/">managed to hack the <span class="caps">API</span> used by the desktop app and made a python module</a>.</p>

<p>Well, using this and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/">Python-Twitter</a>, I made a small script that updates both your Twitter and Pownce status at the same time. And a plus: if you enter a url in the message, it will add it as a link in Pownce ;)</p>

<p><a href="http://alcidesfonseca.com/public/Projects/python/twitter_and_pownce_updater.zip">Give it a try</a> and comment with feedback please. If it has some success, I&#8217;ll probably do some graphical interface, a jabber/msn bot and in the future add the combined list from both your Twitter and Pownce friends.</p>