Pownce gets eaten by SixApart!

Well to be honest, I kind of saw this coming; not so much being bought by SixApart, but Pownce being a failure, albeit a cool one. For those of you who don't even know what Pownce is, its pretty similar to Twitter except with more features. I believe that there was a set limit to what you could type, but you could post videos, images, text, files and events. A pretty neat concept, no question about it, but it seems as though people do not want that. I had a Pownce account (didn't use it much) and I thought it would evolve to be something, but the major thing for me was that it did not have mobile texting updates. I use Twitter primarily on my phone and on my laptop, so take one of those things out of the equation and there's one client gone.

Co-creator Leah Culver had a "bittersweet" post on the Pownce blog about the acquisition:

We have some very big news today at Pownce. We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and Vox. We’re bittersweet about shutting down the service but we believe we’ll come back with something much better in 2009. We love the Pownce community and we will miss you all.

A sad day indeed for all Powncers, but I'm sure SixApart (creators of TypePad, Vox and Moveable Type) will do something cool with it. Our friends over at TechCrunch posted this growth trend chart (thanks Google) showing the growth of Twitter vs Pownce: