Another California social network goes down.
I received this email from Pownce, another social network, microblogger engine:
“We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15,
2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new
pro accounts.To help with your transition, we have built an export tool so you can
save your content. You can find the export tool at Settings > Export.
Please export your content by December 15, 2008, as the site will not
be accessible after this date.Please visit our new home to find out more:
http://www.sixapart.com/pownceOur thanks go out to everyone who contributed to the Pownce community,
The Pownce Crew”
Why do you think they didn’t succeed? What other micro blog engines and social networks are going down in this economy? Twitter the first micro blogger with a horrible architecture and horrible performance is the one that survives over the better ones. I guess than being the first one counts.
Pownce had much more features than Twitter, yet never took off. You still can follow me at Twitter here.
Cheers
Al
Posted from http://weblogs.asp.net/albertpascual
Comments
Deepak said on 12.03.2008 at 11:37 PM
"Why do you think they didn't succeed?"
The reason I think is because they ran out of money. Even if there was a regular stream of funding, you would expect it to run out at one time especially for a business that does not make any money. Somehow twitter has survived till now. But honestly I still cannot think how they can make any money unless they are bought out by someone.