ah well. The great thing about America is that failure is rarely permanent, which means more ideas (and eventually, more successes).

how much of a loss they ran at - a small handful of staff, S3 storage, a large number of pro accounts sold, low traffic...

maybe it wasn't a loss-maker, but Six Apart offered more money from their talents than they'd make by keeping Pownce alive.

six apart is only buying pownce for its IP - they're shutting everything down.

Oh, and the staff. Itll probably turn into some sort of cross Movable Type, TypePad and Vox microblogging tool

I got that email too. Why did six apart buy them only to shut them down? Sounds shirty to me.

Guess it was cheap IP. I'm sure Kevin Rose won't be too worried. One of many ventures including Digg, Rev3...

I wonder how plurk is going? How will they make $ I wonder?

looks like plurk is healthy siteanalytics.compete.co...

Grum, sure, not bad, but I reckon your really need a shitload of traffic and users to make enough money to make a biz viable...

Twitter will be fine I think, not so sure about quite a few others. Looksie: tinyurl.com/5mo6fc

Plurk hasn't been going nearly as long though.

warzabidul: 2 hours a day? how many people use the internet for 2 hours a day? for a microblogging site, 2 hours is a long time

warzabidul: people might not use it for what it was created for, however its still a microblogging site.

actually, on that topic - which microblogging site is the 2nd biggest?

Friendfeed perhaps. Same

... Oops, same deal I mean. Not strictly microblogging but still.

Actually I'm finding that Utterli posts are getting a lot of traffic but not many replies. Microblogging.

When I say a lot of traffic, I got 700 or so views on one image post. I've only got 100 or so followers!