Pownce == Perma Ackbar’d

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It was not within the first fifteen minutes of my logging on that I heard the news from the (former?) !leahbasskitten, a friend of mine on Pownce. It was nothing but a sad face and a link to this rather disheartening post by Leah Culver, for sake of brevity this is but a section of that post;

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.

This came up just after I had thought that morning of ways to integrate Twitter into my own Pownce account, as Twitter had a plethora of external programs, some of which would allow me to post via SMS. Also, it was the few days after another friend, Neha friend asked me which I use more, Twitter or Pownce, and why that was.

I use both with Ping.fm. I much prefer the Pownce interfact and community and layout, but I use Twitter and all its mad gadgets. I prefer Pownce on its own, but Twitters’ uses

For months I have been praising the usefulness of Ping.fm, a service I got into a closed Beta a while ago that lets you post in an excess of 15 different services. But really, I used it for Twitter and Pownce, the extra were a nice bonus. In the back of my head, I was looking for a simpler method, and I guess this really does do it.

The aforementioned uses of Twitter are far from a mystery to anyone, I may cover them in a later post, but if you are wondering I am sure you can Google yourself a few dozen. The popularity of Twitter, and thusly the API, made it a very good idea for anyone with an idea to stick with, the ample audience.

So, it is on this day I remove myself from the Ping.fm bots and stop with my terrible netiquitte. Today I go from a former “Twitter is stupid”ite to a perma “Twitter is stupid”ite.

As Neha said in he reply to this fiasco, “I know that Leah will be a great addition to SixApart, and will create some social networking tool that is ever spiffier for all of us.” it will still not be the same. Pownce had the niche market that Digg used to, and Twitter never did. Perchance I was just lucky, but during my months on Pownce I met some really cool people, a majority of which are now pleading for some form of adequate replacement.

On my way out, I leave you with some links to websites for the troubled Pownce’r, hoping to keep in some contact with those we once did; Poll: Pownce Exile - Where To Next? and teh similarly named FriendFeed room, PownceExiles.

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