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Pownce Bought by Six Apart. Will be Shutdown December 15th

Posted on 02 December 2008 by


Twitter look alike Pownce has been bought by Six Apart and put’s it out of it’s misery and will shutdown on December 15th. Pownce was started by Leah Culver and Daniel Burka and backed by Kevin Rose for a time.  The story is really interesting and you can see more on that at Valleywag.

What’s interesting, if you even care what you put on Pownce, you can export it by follwing the instructions in the press release.  So will the two of you save all of your little messages about what you were doing while witing inline on Black Friday please export your important data…

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