Pownce To Shut Down, Simplicity Won
Dec 2nd, 2008
Yesterday, Six Apart announced to acquire micro-blogging startup Pownce and to shut down Pownce's service in two weeks. Leah Culver and Mike Malone, Pownce's main developers, will join Six Apart's team on similar roles. Backing by Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, Pownce is considered the second-best-known micro-blogging service around after Twitter. Its service even offers more features than Twitter that allows user to share not only short text messages but also photos, video and mp3. However, Pownce's traffic never took ...