Pownce Acquired By SixApart – To Be Shutdown by 15th Dec
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Pownce a microblogging service which was launched in 2007 and created quite a buzz infact we had blogged about it as well has now been acquired by SixApart the company behind blogging platforms like movabletype and typepad.
Pownce was founded by Kevin Rose the founder of Digg.com an immensely popular social bookmarking site and saw some real good initial traction. I was one of the first few guys to join pownce in its closed beta stage. I think what went against pownce was the fact that its features propagated a lot of spamming and it kinda put one off.
Also the other thing was the twitter had already built a loyal following and it seems like the followers didn’t graduate to using pownce as a service.
As this article puts it pownce is expected to be shut down by 15th December and its current avatar would cease to exist. What it looks like is that SixApart seems to have acquired the great team behind pownce rather than the service itself. It will be interesting to see if SixApart launches a free standalone microblogging product or maybe launches a paid micro blogging product for corporates just like movabletype and typepad have a free and paid version.
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Dude a lot of typos in the post….you guys should seriously get a proof reader
jus kidding…but am sure you guys can maintain your quality standards by proof reading all the documents before publishing them.
@Rizwan:
Please point out the typo. the spell checker seems to show up nothing!