Pownce Shuts Down
http://Pownce.com: “We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15, 2008″; http://is.gd/9M8l
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker 08:30 on 2. December 2008 Permalink |
Winer: “Three things that slowed adoption of Pownce beyond the inability to handle a load: 1. It was in private beta for a long, long time. 2. It took forever for it to get an API. 3. When the API finally came it wasn’t compatible with anything.”
BH: “Did Pownce ever stand a chance? I think it could’ve carved a decent niche, it just didn’t move fast enough. After all, it did get me to pay for a pro account, and that has to mean something, doesn’t it?”
pC: “Pownce was founded in January 2008 by Culver and Digg vets Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka; and though the service was hyped as Twitter‘s top competitor, it ultimately failed to catch its rival in terms of user adoption. But clearly, the micro-blogging space remains hot.”
RWW: “This is the second move where well known innovators have taken their technology and brains to a bigger company and shuttered their startup … Though these startups were inspiring, we also think it quite noteworthy that even at a down time economically there are still jobs for super smart people.”