Deadpool: Pownce

Stephanie Booth mentioned the Pownce acquisition and shut-down today:

[from The Pownce Blog » Blog Archive » Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart by Leah Culver]

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.

We’re very happy that Six Apart wants to invest in growing the vision that we the founders of Pownce believe so strongly in and we’re very excited to take our vision to all of Six Apart’s products. Mike and I have joined Six Apart as part of their engineering team and we’re looking forward to being a part of the talented group that has created amazing tools for blogging and publishing.

We’ll be closing down the main Pownce website two weeks from today, December 15th. Since we’d like for you to have access to all your Pownce messages, we’ve added an export function. Visit pownce.com/settings/export/ to generate your export file. You can then import your posts to other blogging services such as Vox, TypePad, or WordPress.

Sounds like some sort of Pownce-ish microstreaming is coming to various (all?) Six Apart products, but the existing service is deadpooled. Considering that Pownce seems to have gotten stuck in second gear over a year ago, no surprise I guess.