Pownce.com Acquired by Sixapart.com

weblord · 12-01-2008, 08:03 PM

http://www.sixapart.com/pownce/

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Pownce.com will be shut down by December 15, 2008. If you would like to keep your content, we have created an export tool to assist you under Settings > Export. But please be sure to have exported your content by December 15, 2008 as it will not be accessible after that date.

and twitter.com is going strong.

kashif · 12-01-2008, 10:31 PM

Just received an email from Pownce <Pownce@mail.vresp.com>, informing the closure of Pownce (a microblogging, social bookmarking site. Here is the content of this email:

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We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15,
2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new
pro accounts.

To help with your transition, we have built an export tool so you can
save your content. You can find the export tool at Settings > Export.
Please export your content by December 15, 2008, as the site will not
be accessible after this date.

Please visit our new home to find out more:
http://www.sixapart.com/pownce
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Our thanks go out to everyone who contributed to the Pownce community,

The Pownce Crew

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dezinerite · 12-02-2008, 09:48 AM

Funny, I was just about to sign up today and then I had to leave my desk so I didn't!

bluearrow · 12-02-2008, 12:13 PM

Yeah I saw it too. They ve given members export feature so they can take their content out and put back in any wordpress blog site.

weblord · 12-16-2008, 07:59 PM

last message from pownce:

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Pownce was closed down on December 15, 2008. The engineering team and technology are now a part of Six Apart, makers of the best blogging tools around.
Thank-you

We want to give our heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated on Pownce. We all got to meet and know so many wonderful people through Pownce and we'll dearly miss sharing stuff together in the future. Hopefully we can all stay in touch through other means and keep these friendships alive.

Thanks to all of you,
The Pownce Crew

yesterday and the day before i was able to use their export tool so all posts are in vox, utterli and on my desktop computer.

seanboy · 12-16-2008, 09:34 PM

The same day that Pownce shut down, Six Apart released a new product called Motion:

http://www.movabletype.com/motion/
http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2008...-type-pro.html

Looks very cool

weblord · 12-16-2008, 09:57 PM

i think they're paid ones, like 0 to U.S.$5K is the lowest.
for now i'll stick with twitter.
tumblr is also pownce like btw.

seanboy · 12-17-2008, 02:12 PM

Movable Type Pro has an open source version and is free to use.

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Pownce.com Acquired by Sixapart.com

Pownce is shutting down!