Pownce is one of the pioneer in Microblogging together with Twitter and Jaiku. Unfortunately they are no longer in business. I am guessing because a lot of people actually uses twitter. I am one that is different because I have always prefer other interfaces such as Pownce and Jaiku, then comes Plurk. I somehow like plurk interface but I am not a big time microblogger.
It is sad to see one of my account going away because I had friends there. I guess it has to go because they are not profitting and I am also seeing more and more people registering an account and getting thousands of friends then link back to their spammy homepage.
If you go to Pownce, you will see this:-
Bye Bye Pownce!
Hey I heard Jaiku is also heading the way !
I don’t really use microblogging either, they seem like too much work. Still, too bad for Pownce, I never like seeing webites go out of business…
Many like Plurk than Twitter. I have never heard about Pownce before until everyone starts posting about the closure of it.
It is a sad fact of life that the web is dominated by so few companies these days. Bring back the days of the little guys. Worst of all is Google’s stranglehold on search. The web is just one big advert.
I had never heard about Pownce alse. I use Twitter a lot, it gives a lot of traffic to my web