Pownce to Shut Down December 15th

Posted on December 5, 2008

Pownce has been acquired by Six Apart and will be shut down on December 15th. Here is the email that went to Pownce members.

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
Our thanks go out to everyone who contributed to the Pownce community,
The Pownce Crew

The Pownce page on sixapart.com talks about the Pownce team now working for Six Apart and tries to interest Pownce users in Six Apart's Vox blogging service.

Pownce was a microblogging and file-sharing service started by Kevin Rose, Leah Culver and Daniel Burka that at one time was thought to have a shot at being popular before Twitter pulled away from the pack with the bulk of the microblogging traffic. Plenty of other Twitter rivals and alternatives still exist including identi.ca, Plurk, Jaiku, Kwippy and Rejaw.