User blog comment:Zathronas/Author's Advice: 1st or 3rd person?/@comment-9090085-20140201013509/@comment-24218038-20140201034926

That's interesting, The POV you were thought are similar but a bit different.

1st person: Always uses the pronoun I and everything is written from his point of view, we only get his thoughts since everything is centered on him.

What you call 3rd person Omnicient  ( it was call 3rd person with insight in my time) is a little different. An outside narrator with the inside thoughts of characters

3rd person is still an outside narrator but this time we don't have inside thoughts on other characters.

I simplified things a bit. With an amalgam of both 3rd person into one